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Metal Game Ecosystem Engineer

Austin,Texas,United States

Software and Services

Apple's Metal Game Ecosystem team is looking for an engineer to join our team with a passion for performance and quality. You will work closely with 3rd party game and game engine developers as they optimize their renderers for Apple's unified gaming platform including Mac, iPhone and iPad. You will be the technical voice of the game ecosystem back to Apple and help to inform future features and projects.

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GPU Softwares Metal Ecosystem team is looking for graphics software engineers to join us, working together with the worlds leading high end game and game engine developers. We represent the technical voice of the game developer ecosystem back into Apple and help provide input to the direction of future Apple products. We work hands on with game makers and 3rd party game engine developers. We work together with the GPU Software team and game developers to identify key features and optimizations. We help developers discover whats possible. Are you ready to join us as we engineer the future of gaming on Metal? You will partner with external game and game engine developers to analyze their workloads and identify performance improvements, feature suggestions, memory usage, API usage and mentorship with clear agreed upon goals on how to improve the player experience. Collaborate in person or virtually with engineers in real time using Apples developer tools and deep knowledge of our architecture along with the developers knowledge of their application. Improve the developer and customer experience through engineering engagements on all Apple products with a GPU from iPhone to Mac. Define your goals and timeline to align with the external developers and work together to deliver. 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.

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