Apple Hiring for SWE – Metal Games Ecosystem Engineer, GPU Software Job at London, England Full Time

Role Number:200334693

• Understanding of at least one GPU API (OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, GNM, CUDA and OpenCL)
• Knowledge of computer-graphics techniques, game development, or the computer-graphics industry
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Strong programming skills and knowledge of C/C++
• Knowledge of GPU hardware architectures

We represent the voice of the graphics software ecosystem back into Apple and influence the direction of future Apple products. Work directly with game makers, game engine providers, professional production applications, renderers and other meaningful graphics applications. We identify features and optimisations for Apple and with external developers to identify optimisations for the application. Metal 2 provides near-direct access to the graphics processing unit (GPU), enabling you to improve the graphics and compute potential of apps on iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Building upon an efficient low-overhead architecture with pre-compiled shaders, fine-grained resource control, and multithreading support, Metal 2 further boosts performance by enabling the GPU to take more control of the rendering pipeline. Moving beyond just graphics, Metal 2’s deep support for GPU-accelerated machine learning and improved developer tools make it even easier to debug, optimise, and deploy Metal apps. On Mac, Metal 2 adds support for virtual reality (VR) rendering and external GPUs, and provides new APIs and optimisations to help developers adapt these new technologies within their apps. In this role you’ll partner with games developers to analyze developer products and identify performance improvements, feature suggestions, memory usage, API usage feedback and mentorship with clear agreed upon goals on how to improve their applications. Collaborate in person or virtually with engineers in real time with source code access using Apple’s developer tools and deep knowledge of our architecture along with the developer’s knowledge of their application. Improve the developer and customer experience through engineering engagements on all Apple products with a GPU from Watch to Mac Pro. Act as the de facto specialist in Metal to the developer, including but not limited to providing informative workshops, direct contributions to source code, insight into actionable improvements and workflows. Regularly collaborate with internal teams outside of GPU Software to highlight opportunities with developers and drive improvements to the platform. Picture yourself in our team? Then we’d love to hear from you!

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