Remote Linux Vulkan Graphics Lead for Real-Time Renderer

Parallel Domain; United States; Remote; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Employer-paid medical, mental health,

Dental and vision benefits

Flexible vacation & holidays

Paid parental leave

Equipment budget

Annual learning stipend

Job summary

Parallel Domain is seeking a Senior Linux Graphics Engineer to lead cross‑platform rendering work and a major Linux+Vulkan migration of the renderer. You will own the project end-to-end, ensuring correctness, performance, and production readiness across sensors (camera, lidar, radar) and platforms.

You will collaborate with ML and rendering teams to push forward wide-angle rendering, reconstruction techniques, and GPU utilization, while shipping in a containerized, cloud-friendly workflow.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in real-time graphics or engine programming with a shipped product.
• Production Vulkan experience: memory, descriptor management, synchronization.
• Shipped graphics software on Linux end-to-end: drivers, stacks, tooling.
• Strong modern C++ skills in a large codebase with CI/build systems.
• Proven GPU/CPU profiling and bottleneck fixing on real hardware.
• Ability to scope, sequence, and drive hard problems independently.
• Clear communication to non-graphics engineers and on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Own the Linux and Vulkan migration from Windows to Linux on Nvidia GPUs.
• Bridge gaps between DirectX and Vulkan backends and fix artifacts.
• Build regression tests and output equivalence across platforms.
• Profile and optimize renderer performance on Linux and in cloud environments.
• Contribute to rendering roadmap including wide-angle, multi-view, and Gaussian splatting.
• Collaborate with build, infrastructure, and simulation engineers; containerized deployment.
• Leverage AI tooling for faster coding and debugging.

Skills

Real-time graphics

Engine programming

Vulkan

Linux graphics

Modern C++

GPU performance

Profiling & debugging

Independent work

Communication

Tools

RenderDoc

Nsight

Docker

Kubernetes

Unreal Engine

Vulkan

GitHub Actions

Job description

Parallel Domain is seeking a Senior Linux Graphics Engineer to lead cross‑platform rendering work and a major Linux+Vulkan migration of the renderer. You will own the project end-to-end, ensuring correctness, performance, and production readiness across sensors (camera, lidar, radar) and platforms.

You will collaborate with ML and rendering teams to push forward wide-angle rendering, reconstruction techniques, and GPU utilization, while shipping in a containerized, cloud-friendly workflow.