Senior Rendering Engineer

As a Senior Rendering Engineer, you will help shape the visual quality, atmosphere, and performance of ambitious, immersive gaming experiences. You will design, develop, and optimize rendering systems in Unreal Engine 5, working at the intersection of advanced graphics engineering, technical artistry, and game production. From shader development and lighting architecture to GPU profiling and platform optimization, you will influence how complex environments look and perform across target hardware. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, technical artists, and environment and lighting artists to balance visual fidelity with performance requirements. The role offers significant technical ownership, allowing you to establish rendering standards, build production tools, and solve challenging graphics problems. You will join a collaborative, multidisciplinary development environment where innovation, experimentation, and high-quality execution are central to creating distinctive gaming experiences. This is a remote opportunity for an experienced graphics engineer who is passionate about pushing the boundaries of real-time rendering.

• Professional Experience: At least seven years of professional experience in rendering engineering, graphics programming, or a closely related field, including at least one commercially released title developed with Unreal Engine.

• C++ Programming: Strong C++ skills and a thorough understanding of Unreal Engine's rendering architecture, including the Render Dependency Graph (RDG), shader compilation, the material system, and deferred rendering.

• Shader Development: Hands-on experience writing, debugging, and optimizing shaders using HLSL and related graphics programming techniques.

• Graphics Debugging and Profiling: Experience diagnosing rendering problems and analyzing performance using tools such as RenderDoc and Unreal Insights.

• Unreal Engine 5 Lighting: Practical experience with UE5 lighting technologies and workflows, including World Partition, GPU Lightmass, and Lumen, with the ability to evaluate trade-offs between dynamic and baked lighting.

• Performance Engineering: Strong GPU and CPU profiling skills, with a demonstrated ability to identify performance bottlenecks and meet platform-specific rendering budgets without compromising essential visual quality.

• Production Pipeline Experience: Familiarity with structured development workflows, version control systems such as Perforce, branching strategies, code reviews, and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

• Communication Skills: Ability to explain rendering limitations, technical trade-offs, performance constraints, and optimization strategies clearly to engineers, artists, designers, and other stakeholders.

• Problem-Solving and Ownership: Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, initiative, and the ability to independently investigate complex technical challenges while collaborating effectively with the wider team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience implementing and optimizing newer Unreal Engine 5 rendering technologies, including Nanite and Substrate, in a production environment.

• Previous work on horror games, atmospheric experiences, or visually stylized projects featuring high-contrast lighting and carefully controlled environments.

• Experience building custom rendering tools, editor extensions, and workflows that improve technical artists' productivity.

• Experience optimizing rendering for console platforms and supporting platform-specific certification requirements.

• A technical art background or a history of close collaboration with technical artists on shaders, materials, lighting, and visual quality.