Senior Game Engine Programmer

Summary

Join Parallel Domain, a company focused on improving lives through autonomous systems, as a Senior Game Engine Programmer. Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of the real-time graphics engine, focusing on performance and scalability. You will architect and maintain core runtime systems for sensor simulation, ensuring deterministic, low-latency execution. This role requires building highly performant, multithreaded systems, designing memory-efficient data pipelines, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of experience in game engine development and a strong background in C++, multithreaded architecture, and GPU optimization. Success involves profiling and optimizing engine subsystems, delivering core rendering components, and guiding best practices for data authoring.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in graphics or engine development, preferably within real-time or simulation-focused environments
• Deep proficiency in C++ and Game Engine Development
• Strong background in: Multithreaded engine architecture, Performance profiling (CPU/GPU, frame timing, load balancing), GPU compute and pipeline optimization, Shader development (e.g., HLSL, GLSL), Low-level memory management
• Familiarity with real-time 3D math, spatial data structures, and camera/sensor modeling
• Experience driving technical projects from architecture through to deployment, with strong collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Shipped a AAA photorealistic game, with involvement in performance-critical systems
• Worked with Unreal Engine 4.x or newer, or another modern high-performance game engine
• Hands-on experience working directly with the core engine codebase, not just using the editor or scripting layer. e.g., modifying rendering systems, memory allocators, or runtime infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Build highly performant, multithreaded systems that scale across CPU and GPU
• Design memory-efficient data pipelines capable of supporting large-scale procedural environments and densely populated simulation scenes
• Work with our Senior Architect to implement core engine systems for real-time simulation, rendering, and sensor data output
• Work with the team to design profiling and debugging tools to monitor engine health, frame timing, memory usage, and system latency
• Optimize GPU compute workloads to ensure high throughput for both graphical rendering and sensor-specific data generation
• Develop tooling and metrics pipelines to continuously monitor and improve system bottlenecks
• Collaborate closely with simulation, graphics, and infrastructure teams to ensure platform performance meets the demands of parallelized, distributed workloads

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with simulation systems for autonomous vehicles, robotics, or related domains
• Familiarity with sensor simulation technologies such as LiDAR, Radar, depth, and realistic simulation of a broad range of cameras with varying levels of quality and their image signal processing capabilities
• Prior work on deterministic simulation, fixed update loops, or real-time physics systems
• Experience scaling and optimizing engines for cloud or distributed compute environments
• Knowledge of large-scale procedural content generation and streaming world systems
• Exposure to AI/ML-based content and rendering methods such as NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting
• Experience collaborating with technical artists, 3D artists, and product designers
• Led roadmap planning, authored technical design documentation, and defined engineering milestones

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Employer-paid supplemental medical, mental health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible paid vacation, sick time, winter shutdown, and 11+ holidays per year
• Paid parental leave
• Equipment budget to optimize your setup
• Annual learning and development stipend