Software Engineer, AR Effect Platform (Multiple Positions)

Responsibilities

About ByteDance
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.
Join us.

About the Team
Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company’s success. We seek people who are willing to learn and put in the effort to solve problems. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day problems - you’ll be part of a team that’s developing new solutions to new challenges. It’s working fast, at scale, and we’re making a difference. We are looking for talents to join us on this exciting journey!

Responsibilities
Build high-quality visual effects and augmented reality applications by developing low-level engine systems including rendering pipeline, script bindings, asset pipeline, and ECS systems.
Fine tune the AI empowered rendering engine developed by senior engineers to achieve high fidelity graphics on mobile devices.
Improve effect creation tools, implement new tool or product features, and provide support for the company’s AR Effect platform.
Craft clean and maintainable C++ code with easy to use API design.
Maintain reusable systems, tools, and pipelines to enhance the team's development efficiency.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in standardizing the workflow and processes for AR effects production.
Mentor interns and junior engineers.

Qualifications

Qualifications
Must have a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or a related STEM field, and 1 year of related work experience; OR a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any), Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or a related STEM field, and 2 years of related work experience.

Of the required experience, must have 1 year of experience in each of the following:
Develop software using graphics API including OpenGL, Vulkan or DirectX;
Designing and implementing cross-platform SDK framework to deploy and integrate graphics features into various applications;
Designing and implementing software service architecture to support high throughput and fault tolerant services;
Designing and implementing UI and back-end business logic using JavaScript, TypeScript or Lua;
Profiling and optimizing the low-level performance of standalone and mobile application;
Working across all phases of the software development lifecycle for the design, development, and testing of software using C++, data structures, or algorithms; and
Maintaining and debugging software.

Type: Full time, 40 hours/week
Location: San Jose, CA
Salary Range: $146961 - $250000 per year

To Apply, click the apply button below. Contact lpresumes@bytedance.com if you have difficulty submitting resume through the website.

ByteDance Inc. is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At Bytedance, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

ByteDance Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at lpresumes@bytedance.com.

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The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $146961 - $250000 annually.​

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