Senior Staff GPU Imaging Engineer — Equity Eligible

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Discretionary bonuses

Flexible time off

Health Insurance

11 paid holidays

Job summary

VSCO is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to own Reflex, our production GPU image-processing engine, and guide its path into Studio Pro on iOS and macOS.

You will shape a high-performance imaging stack, drive GPU and memory budgets, and collaborate with Product/Design to translate business goals into technical direction. Strong Rust and WGSL expertise are required, with a track record in mobile graphics performance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering, with a track record as the owner of a production rendering, imaging, or GPU-compute system.
• Deep GPU/rendering experience: pipelines, shaders, color, and memory — not just “used a graphics API”
• Strong systems language experience; Rust is strongly preferred. Comfortable reading and writing shaders (WGSL, Metal, or equivalent)
• Experience taking imaging or graphics work onto mobile (memory budgets, decode/encode, thermal/GPU limits). iOS/Metal preferred
• Experience working 0→1 inside an existing product: evaluate nascent ideas, pick high-leverage work, sequence small investments into sizable change
• Experience mentoring other Senior engineers to grow into Staff-level leaders
• AI-assisted developer workflows (parallel agents, MCP, eval/review automation) that you have actually landed in a team, not just demoed

Responsibilities

• Own the Reflex imaging engine: DAG execution, WGSL operators, GPU resource/memory budgets, and color management (linear working space, LUTs, Display P3, bit-depth)
• Ship engine changes through the native bridge (UniFFI + Nitro) into Studio Pro on iOS and macOS, including versioning and release
• Take new 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
• Define and keep the render/pipeline contracts in the shared Studio Pro core so mobile and desktop stay coherent
• Mentor Senior engineers toward Staff-level ownership; raise the quality of design and code review across the org
• Lead force-multiplication: better native packaging and CI, shared review/agent workflows, and AI tools that shorten idea-o-production
• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to turn product and business goals into technical direction; make pragmatic tradeoffs between long-term architecture and getting value into customers’ hands.

Skills

Rust

WGSL

Shaders

GPU rendering

Mentoring

Tools

UniFFI

Nitro

React Native

WebGPU

Job description

VSCO is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to own Reflex, our production GPU image-processing engine, and guide its path into Studio Pro on iOS and macOS.

You will shape a high-performance imaging stack, drive GPU and memory budgets, and collaborate with Product/Design to translate business goals into technical direction. Strong Rust and WGSL expertise are required, with a track record in mobile graphics performance.