User Interface Graphics Software Engineer

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The Opportunity

We are looking for a senior user interface software engineer with a strong understanding of common UI toolkits, familiarity with 3D graphics applications and a deep sense of software craftsmanship to participate in the design, implementation, and deployment of our next generation multi-surface collaborative 3D graphics software for creative professionals. Leveraging various technologies to visualize, create, capture, and generate 3D content, we believe this new product will bring unique and artist-friendly 3D capabilities to creative professionals through a deep connection with flagship applications like Photoshop and Illustrator.

We are a tight-knit team developing state-of-the-art software and delivering robust, fast, and resource-conscious components to product teams.

Our team will closely collaborate with Adobe's UX design and research teams to turn groundbreaking ideas and technologies into shipping features.

What you'll Do

1. Work collaboratively with UX designers, engineers, and researchers to architect, develop, maintain, and optimize new software solutions.
2. Design and implement modern algorithms by writing robust, high-performance, maintainable code.
3. Develop experiments to explore tradeoffs between various possible implementations.
4. Identify and fix application bugs and performance bottlenecks.
5. Review code on a near daily basis and give detailed, constructive feedback.
6. Work closely with many different product and teams across Adobe to integrate software across organizational boundaries.
7. Provide leadership to the group and mentorship to junior level engineers.

What you need to succeed

1. 5+ years software engineering experience writing production code.
2. Expertise of C++ (C++17 preferred) and its design patterns.
3. Experience building user-facing applications leveraging common UI concepts.
4. Deep knowledge of one or more industry-wide UI toolkit (i.e. Qt, UIKit etc.).
5. Experience with cross-platform code.
6. Experience designing for modern architectures and UI toolkits.
7. Understanding of modern 3D graphics APIs (OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, Metal).
8. Familiarity with basic 3D rendering algorithms and procedures.
9. Experience in profiling, debugging, and testing user-facing applications.
10. Experience with optimization and profiling tools.
11. Experience in at least one scripting language, Python in particular.

Welcomed expertise:

1. Creative Cloud applications (i.e. Photoshop and Illustrator).
2. Universal Scene Description (USD) API and overall concepts.
3. Qt application framework.
4. Apple UIKit.
5. 3D content creation tools (e.g. Maya, Cinema4D).
6. Familiarity with the use of Generative AI workflows.
7. Strong communication skills and attention to details.
8. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience or education.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $124,000 -- $234,200 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

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