Senior Programmer / AutoCAD

Description

General Summary:
The successful candidate will act as a senior graphics programmer, responsible for development of future versions of Autodesk’s core graphics system used by AutoCAD(R). AutoCAD’s graphics system is built on a foundation technology called Heidi(R) and further enabling technology called GS, Autodesk’s high-speed graphics solution. Heidi is an immediate mode interface designed for the drawing portion of graphics software construction activity. It is the critical core component that coordinates many aspects of 3D graphics application development. Heidi provides application developers and programmers writing drivers with a dynamically configurable framework for managing the graphics display of 2D and 3D objects, rendering and shading. The technology also applies to hardcopy output, electronic display formats, and inter-application data transfer. Heidi’s rendering pipeline augments graphics hardware through a scalable device interface. Heidi is utilized in many of Autodesk's products including Autodesk's flagship product AutoCAD.

In this software development position you will work as a member of the graphics team, responsible for the graphics algorithms and rendering functionality. This will require you to work as a member of the team on the design and implementation of code for managing and manipulating 2D and 3D graphics. You will also be responsible for researching emerging technologies to determining the technical direction AutoCAD's graphics system needs to evolve in order to stay state-of-the-art. You will also network with several other product groups within Autodesk in order to help facilitate the incorporation of graphics technology into their products. You will write code in C++ and your creative solutions will be fundamental to the success of multi-million dollar CAD and Multimedia products running in the Windows environment.