Senior GPU Rendering Engineer for Video Platform

Adobe; United States; Remote; USD 139,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe's Digital Video & Audio (DVA) team seeks a senior, hands-on engineer to own and evolve the cross-platform GPU-rendering platform at the heart of our video products. You will lead major initiatives through architecture to release in close partnership with technical leadership.

You will build and own GPU-accelerated video effects across Premiere and After Effects, drive design decisions, and ensure quality across macOS, Windows, and Apple Silicon.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of owning components or features end-to-end.
• Strong proficiency in C++, working in large and complex cross-platform codebases (macOS and Windows).
• GPU programming skills with working knowledge of CUDA, Metal, and OpenCL.
• Strong knowledge of modern GPU and parallel processing paradigms.
• Experience with effects/plugin architecture and host-application integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and productize high-performance GPU components (CUDA, Metal, OpenCL) for the video processing and rendering pipeline.
• Profile and optimize GPU rendering performance — pinpoint bottlenecks in compute kernels, memory transfers, and the render graph.
• Harden pipeline stability and correctness — root-cause and fix complex GPU, driver, memory, and platform-specific defects.
• Own the end-to-end integration of in-house and third-party effects plugins — packaging and custom builds across all platform architectures, through QE and release readiness.
• Ensure consistent quality, performance, and scalability across GPU hardware (NVIDIA, AMD, Apple Silicon) and operating systems (macOS, Windows).
• Own the release process for your areas — build shepherding, QE coordination, and triage of release-blocking issues.

Skills

C++

GPU programming

CUDA

Metal

OpenCL

Cross-platform development

Debugging

Job description

Adobe's Digital Video & Audio (DVA) team seeks a senior, hands-on engineer to own and evolve the cross-platform GPU-rendering platform at the heart of our video products. You will lead major initiatives through architecture to release in close partnership with technical leadership.

You will build and own GPU-accelerated video effects across Premiere and After Effects, drive design decisions, and ensure quality across macOS, Windows, and Apple Silicon.