Director of Engineering, Simulation & Rendering

About the role

Before an autonomous vehicle navigates a busy intersection, before a robot learns to pick and place in a warehouse, before any Physical AI system is trusted in the real world, it has to prove itself in ours. Parallel Domain builds the platform that validates the next generation of autonomous systems in high-fidelity virtual environments. Our simulation core and rendering pipeline are how that platform earns its credibility with customers. The current stack is rooted in real-time game engine technology, and we're evolving it to incorporate scene reconstruction (gaussian splatting, NeRFs), neural rendering, and diffusion-based techniques. Leading this evolution is central to where the team is going. We're hiring a Director of Engineering to lead our Simulation & Graphics organization. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you'll own the technical direction for two pods totaling roughly 10-15 people: a simulation and rendering pod focused on the engine and runtime, and a content and technical-art pod focused on world-building, assets, and tooling. You'll set strategy, hire and grow high-performing teams, and partner across engineering, ML, product, and customer-facing functions on cross-cutting initiatives that expand what our customers can do with the platform.

Requirements

• Leadership track record. 10+ years of engineering experience with at least 5 years leading technical teams, including managing senior individual contributors and ideally other managers.
• Domain expertise. A track record of delivering at the intersection of real-time rendering, simulation, or related graphics-heavy domains: video games, computer animation, VFX, virtual production, autonomous simulation, or similar.
• Experience leading change. You've taken a team through significant technical change-an engine upgrade, a re-architecture, a tools migration, a shift in content paradigm-and you understand the human side as well as the technical side.
• Technical judgment. You can hold your own in a discussion about renderer architecture, asset pipelines, GPU performance, and the tradeoffs between fidelity, performance, and authoring cost.
• Communication. You can explain a thorny tradeoff to a non-technical executive in five sentences and write a roadmap the team actually uses.
• Artistic sensibility. A real feel for what makes a scene look right, and the ability to speak that language with the artists and engineers building it.

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