Senior Graphics Engineer: Reflex GPU Imaging Engine

Vsco39; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K plan

Medical, dental, vision insurance

11 paid holidays and paid sick time

Flexible time off

Job summary

VSCO in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be a primary contributor on Reflex, our production GPU image-processing engine, and to guide its path in Studio Pro on iOS and macOS.

You will deepen a stack already in customers’ hands: new capabilities (RAW, large-image export, desktop parity), production quality (color correctness, memory, performance), and the contracts that let product engineers ship on top of the engine.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in engineering, with a track record as a heavy contributor in a production rendering, imaging, or GPU‑compute system.
• Deep GPU/rendering experience: pipelines, shaders, color, and memory.
• Strong systems language experience; Rust is strongly preferred.
• Experience taking imaging or graphics work onto mobile (memory budgets, decode/encode, thermal/GPU limits). iOS/Metal preferred.
• Experience taking imaging or graphics work from 0→1 inside an existing product.
• AI-assisted developer workflows integrated into developer processes.

Responsibilities

• Be a primary contributor on the Reflex imaging engine: DAG execution, WGSL operators, GPU resource/memory budgets, color management.
• Ship engine changes through the native bridge (UniFFI + Nitro) into Studio Pro on iOS and macOS, including versioning and release.
• Translate imaging capabilities from design to production (RAW develop, tiled/gigapixel export, parity with existing VSCO imaging stack).
• Diagnose and fix production-class mobile graphics problems: OOM, cache eviction, HEIC encode, editor vs. batch vs. export paths.
• Develop and maintain render/pipeline contracts in Studio Pro core so mobile and desktop stay coherent.
• Improve developer workflows through packaging, CI, and AI tools that shorten idea-to-production.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to turn goals into technical direction and pragmatic tradeoffs.

Skills

GPU rendering

Shaders

Color management

Memory budgets

Rust

iOS/Metal

Product development

AI-assisted workflows

Tools

WGSL

Metal

UniFFI

Nitro

React Native

Job description

VSCO in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be a primary contributor on Reflex, our production GPU image-processing engine, and to guide its path in Studio Pro on iOS and macOS.

You will deepen a stack already in customers’ hands: new capabilities (RAW, large-image export, desktop parity), production quality (color correctness, memory, performance), and the contracts that let product engineers ship on top of the engine.