Senior Shader & Visual Effects Engineer (Keynote)

TEKsystems; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) retirement plan

Time off/ PTO

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Keynote Shader & Effects Engineer on a 12-month contract for Apple, onsite near the Los Angeles area. The role focuses on designing and optimizing shader-driven visual effects for Keynote's rendering engine, with opportunities to shape high-impact transitions and animations used by millions of users.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in real-time rendering, shader development, and graphics pipelines, plus collaboration with design and engineering teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in graphics, rendering, or shader development.
• Proven experience developing and optimizing real-time graphics applications.
• Strong understanding of rendering pipelines, rasterization, compute shaders, render passes, resource binding, and GPU/CPU synchronization.
• Experience writing production-quality shader code using Metal, GLSL, HLSL, Vulkan, or similar technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize graphics workloads for performance-sensitive applications.
• Experience shipping graphics features, visual effects, or rendering systems in production environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across technical and creative teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and implement advanced shader-driven visual effects and animations.
• Develop and maintain high-performance graphics solutions optimized for Apple Silicon devices.
• Create visually compelling real-time effects while maintaining strict rendering and performance requirements.
• Collaborate closely with designers and engineers to translate creative vision into polished user experiences.
• Apply modern graphics techniques to solve complex visual and technical challenges.
• Optimize GPU performance to achieve smooth, high-fidelity rendering across a variety of hardware platforms.
• Research and implement state-of-the-art rendering technologies and industry best practices.
• Own graphics features and effect systems throughout the full development lifecycle, from concept through production.

Skills

Graphics experience

Shader development

Real-time rendering

GPU synchronization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Metal

GLSL

HLSL

Vulkan

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Keynote Shader & Effects Engineer on a 12-month contract for Apple, onsite near the Los Angeles area. The role focuses on designing and optimizing shader-driven visual effects for Keynote's rendering engine, with opportunities to shape high-impact transitions and animations used by millions of users.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in real-time rendering, shader development, and graphics pipelines, plus collaboration with design and engineering teams to deliver