Senior Staff GPU Engineer — Reflex Imaging, Studio Pro

vsco39; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Discretionary bonuses

Flexible time off

401K retirement plan

Job summary

VSCO is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to own Reflex, its production GPU image-processing engine, and the path into Studio Pro on iOS and macOS. This technically senior role deepens an existing stack, enabling RAW development, large-image export, and color/logical parity, while maintaining performance and memory budgets.

You will mentor engineers toward Staff-level ownership, improve native tooling, CI, and AI-assisted workflows, and partner with product to shape technical direction and customer

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering, owning a production rendering or GPU-imaging system.
• Deep GPU/rendering experience: pipelines, shaders, color, memory.
• Strong systems language experience; Rust preferred; read/write WGSL/Metal shaders.
• Experience taking imaging/graphics work to mobile; iOS/Metal preferred.
• Experience mentoring Senior engineers toward Staff-level leadership.
• AI-assisted developer workflows implemented in a team.

Responsibilities

• Own the Reflex imaging engine: DAG execution, WGSL operators, GPU budgets, color management.
• Ship engine changes through the native bridge into Studio Pro on iOS/macOS with versioning.
• Take imaging capabilities from design to production (RAW, large exports, parity with stack).
• Diagnose and fix production graphics problems: OOM, cache eviction, encode paths.
• Define render/pipeline contracts to keep mobile and desktop coherent.
• Mentor engineers toward Staff-level ownership and improve code review quality.
• Lead force-multiplication: packaging, CI, review workflows, AI-assisted tooling.
• Collaborate with Product/Design/Engineering to align tech direction with business goals.

Skills

10+ years engineering

GPU rendering

Shader programming

Mentoring others

Tools

WGSL

Metal

Rust

UniFFI

JNI

Nitro

Job description

VSCO is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to own Reflex, its production GPU image-processing engine, and the path into Studio Pro on iOS and macOS. This technically senior role deepens an existing stack, enabling RAW development, large-image export, and color/logical parity, while maintaining performance and memory budgets.

You will mentor engineers toward Staff-level ownership, improve native tooling, CI, and AI-assisted workflows, and partner with product to shape technical direction and customer