Rendering Engineer, Real-time, Gaming
NVIDIA
AssemblyC++RayUnity
PhD Intern, Software Engineer - Graphics
Figma
internship
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: San Francisco • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
Visit company websiteSalary
💰 $72 per hour
Job Level
Entry Level
About the role
- Learn from industry graphics engineers
- Collaborate with your intern manager and team members to finalize the project goals and clarify the project requirements, design, architecture and achievements
- Participate as a member of the Rendering & Animation team writing code, tests and documentation, fixing bugs, attending the weekly team meeting and communicating progress updates
- Take ownership of a high-impact project at the intersection of your technical strengths and our most pressing graphics, rendering, or media challenges
- Work closely with your intern manager, team leads, and collaborators across 1–2 partner teams to deliver tangible results within your internship
- Contribute to domain areas such as crafting and optimizing shaders for sophisticated effects, investigating improvements to anti-aliasing algorithms, evolving physics-based motion frameworks, improving media processing capabilities, and animating spline interpolation
- Role is eligible for Winter or Summer 2026 in San Francisco or New York hub; most in-person collaboration happens in New York
Requirements
- Ph.D in Computer Graphics or Media Processing in their 4-5th year
- Experience working with OpenGL, WebGL, WebGPU, and their respective shader languages (GLSL, WGSL) or other low-level graphics APIs like Vulkan & Metal
- Experience in C++
- Self-motivated initiative to deliver value and think holistically about the use-case as well as the low-level technology
- While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: Experience in WebAssembly and web graphics environments; Experience in 2D graphics; Experience in performance optimization; Experience or curiosity about art & design applications
- We require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews
- If hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding
- Position is eligible for Winter or Summer of 2026 in either San Francisco or New York hub
Benefits
- This internship role is based in either Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, and has the hourly base pay rate stated below.
- Figma also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement.
- Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
OpenGLWebGLWebGPUGLSLWGSLVulkanMetalC++WebAssemblyperformance optimization
Soft skills
self-motivatedinitiativecollaborationcommunicationownershipproblem-solvingholistic thinking
Certifications
Ph.D in Computer GraphicsPh.D in Media Processing
