Principal Graphics Engineer: Rendering & Visualization

Cadence Design Systems; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems seeks a Principal/Lead Software Engineer for Graphics to design, develop, and maintain graphics capabilities for MSC Apex and related engineering software platforms.

This hands-on role focuses on rendering integration, visualization components, and performance enhancements, collaborating with senior engineers, architects, product teams, and QA to deliver reliable graphics functionality for engineering desktop applications.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering for desktop graphics or CAD/CAE.
• Strong C++ production experience.
• Experience with graphics frameworks and rendering pipelines.
• Experience with Windows desktop applications.
• Familiarity with graphics debugging and profiling tools.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain graphics and visualization capabilities for engineering desktop applications, with emphasis on reliability, usability, performance, and maintainability.
• Implement graphics features related to rendering, model display, selection, interaction, view manipulation, annotation, color mapping, and visualization workflows.
• Work with graphics frameworks, rendering pipelines, and visualization libraries to support product requirements and improve user workflows.
• Analyze and resolve graphics defects, rendering issues, performance bottlenecks, memory problems, and platform-specific visualization behavior.
• Collaborate with architects and principal engineers on design direction while taking ownership of assigned components and feature implementation.
• Support code reviews, technical discussions, test planning, and integration activities for graphics-related features.
• Provide technical guidance to junior engineers when needed, while continuing to contribute as a hands-on developer.

Skills

C++

Graphics programming

Rendering pipelines

Visualization

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor’s/Master in CS/CE/Engineering

Tools

Visual Studio

GDB/LLDB

RenderDoc

Nsight

OpenGL

Vulkan

VTK

Job description

Cadence Design Systems seeks a Principal/Lead Software Engineer for Graphics to design, develop, and maintain graphics capabilities for MSC Apex and related engineering software platforms.

This hands-on role focuses on rendering integration, visualization components, and performance enhancements, collaborating with senior engineers, architects, product teams, and QA to deliver reliable graphics functionality for engineering desktop applications.