Senior Graphics Developer Tools Engineer - Cork, Ireland

Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

About The Role
Qualcomm offers flexible work options tailored to our employee’s needs. These include a combination of work from home and working in our brand new, state of the art office in Penrose Dock, Cork.

Well-being and life balance are fundamental to Qualcomm as an employer.  We recognise and understand that employees have missed spending quality time with loved ones and extended family. 

As such, Cork Qualcomm policy allows our employees to blend short-term remote working with annual leave.

Interested in enabling next generation graphics, games, ray tracing, machine learning, image and video processing, even Mars drones?

The Qualcomm Adreno GPU Software team is looking for talented engineers to work on next generation GPU Developer Tools. Responsibilities include the design and development of profiling and performance analysis tools, GPU debugging tools, collaborating with GPU hardware and software teams on performance validation and analysis, new feature development, debugging issues, optimizing for the user experience, and working with the developer ecosystem, our partners, and OEMs. This role is an opportunity to shape how developers optimize for the Snapdragon Adreno GPU and have insight into next generation GPU hardware design.

Our efforts in GPU Developer Tools create opportunities for our team members to learn new technologies and engage in full stack development ranging from user interfaces to graphics driver instrumentation. Experience in developing real-time software applications, graphics and/or GPGPU applications, games, middleware, drivers, or developer tools is a big plus.

In this role, you will:

• Design and develop profiling, performance analysis, and debugging tools features.
• Collaborate with GPU hardware and software teams on performance validation and analysis.
• Debug issues, optimize for the user experience, and work with the developer ecosystem, partners, and OEMs.
• Shape how developers optimize for the Snapdragon Adreno GPU and gain insight into next generation GPU hardware design.

The ideal candidate will meet two or more qualifications:

- 2+ years of professional experience

- Programming knowledge in C/C++, or demonstrated proficiency in tools and/or application development with C#, Rust, Go

- Knowledge of GPU hardware and graphics concepts

Any of the following qualifications are a plus:
- Demonstrated programming knowledge in C/C++, or demonstrated proficiency in tools and/or application development with C#, Rust, or Go
- Experience developing graphics applications with Vulkan, DirectX, Metal, OpenGL, WebGL or graphics development through Unity, Unreal Engine, or a comparable graphics or game engine
- Experience developing GPU computing applications with OpenCL, CUDA, SYCL etc.
- Experience debugging, optimizing, profiling, and tuning real-time graphics and/or compute applications
- Experience with game engines, graphics frameworks, or general computing frameworks leveraging the GPU a plus
- Knowledge of recent graphics trends a plus, i.e. ray tracing, mesh shading, work graphs
- Knowledge of Image and video processing, data parallelism, and machine learning algorithms
- Familiarity with Graphics Profilers and Debuggers such as Nsight, PIX, GPA, RenderDoc

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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