App Engineer

Paperspace is looking for experienced developers to work on our multi-platform streaming applications. Paperspace provides core services for cloud GPU compute access for a variety of applications including developer desktops in Linux and Windows, virtual desktop services, cloud gaming and game streaming, GPU-based rendering, and virtual desktops for teams. Our streaming protocols are some of the best in the industry and we are making them even better. In addition we want to extend our client reach beyond our current Mac, Windows, and Linux client app, to mobile and tablet platforms.

Paperspace... - currently uses C/C++, Qt for our client apps, and C++/C# for our streaming agents, and Node.Js for our web client - does custom video compression codecs for H.264 on multiple platforms - implements custom network protocols to support our best-in-class streaming technology - uses test-driven development and continuous integration/continuous deployment processes to push enhancements to out app clients quickly

You will bring... - experience in C/C++ and multi-platform client development - knowledge of HTML/CSS, Javascript and basic web app and JSON API development - experience with responsive mobile application development and mobile frameworks - in-depth knowledge of model-view-controller and general GUI development techniques - custom network protocol development experience - multithreaded programming and performance tuning/latency optimization experience

It would be great if... - you have worked with the Qt framework and development tools - you also had first-hand experience with video codec implementation - bring expertise in encryption especially openssl - low-level knowledge of network protocol implementations, such as TCP, UDP, QUIC, Websockets, and/or remote desktop protocols - had done advanced work with compositors and rendering technologies, such as OpenGL, DirectX, and CUDA - experience with game or 3D rendering applications, including keyboard and controller integration