Principal Graphics Engineer

🕒 May 11

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Parallelz

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💰 Pre Seed Round on 2022-06

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Parallelz is a company focused on revolutionizing the distribution and discovery of mobile apps through a new computing architecture and platform. They enable developers to transform native-mobile apps into fully native-web apps without any modifications or using SDKs. Their platform allows users to enjoy a seamless and fast experience without the need for app stores or installs, promoting a free and unrestricted web landscape. Backed by experienced serial entrepreneurs and acclaimed investors, Parallelz aims to create a better internet for everyone by offering entirely new ways of enhancing online experiences.

📋 Description

• Own the design, implementation, and evolution of our graphics and rendering stack across native (Android/Linux) and web (WebGL, WebGPU) targets. • Write efficient, maintainable, performance-critical C/C++ for system-level and rendering components, with hard requirements on frame budgets, memory, and latency. • Profile and tune the full pipeline: CPU/GPU bottlenecks, shader cost, texture and buffer management, compositor interactions, and end-to-end streaming latency. • Investigate and resolve faults in complex environments, tracing issues from the browser engine down through the runtime to the OS, kernel, and graphics driver. • Drive upgrades to the underlying platforms (AOSP versions, browser engines, GLES/WebGPU evolution) while keeping the system stable and shippable. • Partner with other teams to define and implement robust testing strategies for rendering correctness, performance regressions, and cross-device fidelity. • Operate as a senior independent contributor: scope your own work, drive it to completion, and communicate clearly with a small, high-trust team. • Work natively with AI coding agents and tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, agentic workflows, custom internal agents) to accelerate research, prototyping, code generation, debugging, and review, treating these tools as a junior pair you direct and verify, not a passenger.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong systems programming foundation: C/C++ proficiency on performance-critical, low-level codebases, with deep familiarity with Linux and OS-level internals. • Deep experience with one or more real-time graphics stacks: OpenGL ES, WebGL, WebGPU, Vulkan, Metal, or DirectX, including shader programming, GPU memory and pipeline optimization, and frame/latency budgeting. • Track record of owning complex, multi-component graphics or systems products end-to-end, from research prototype through production at scale. • Daily fluency with AI coding agents and LLM tooling, with a clear bias toward verifying and pushing back on AI output rather than accepting it. • A "dig until it bleeds" investigative instinct: the drive to understand every layer of the system. • Strong written communication and a self-directed working style suited to a small, senior, high-trust team. • We'd love to see depth in two or more of the following: • - Browser engine internals (Chromium/Blink, Gecko, WebKit), particularly the graphics, compositor, or rendering subsystems. • - Game engine internals, real-time renderers, or GPU compute frameworks. • - Android internals and custom AOSP development (kernel, HAL, SurfaceFlinger, System Services, GMS, Android Build System). • - Android/Linux graphics stack (EGL, Gralloc, DRM/KMS, Mesa) and graphics driver work. • - Web platform technologies: WebAssembly, WebRTC, and the surrounding browser security/sandboxing model. • - Containers and virtualization (LXC, namespaces, cgroups) and their interaction with hardware-accelerated graphics. • - Real-time network and socket programming, including low-latency streaming protocols and frame pacing. • - Linux device driver programming.

🏖️ Benefits

• Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation • Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, vision), including Health and Wellness spending account • Generous time off policies • Access to leading AI tools and platforms