Qualifications
- An established track record in rendering or engine engineering, shipping high-performance rendering systems for AAA, film/VFX, XR or simulation across a number of products
- Deep experience with modern C++ and solid shader authoring and debugging (HLSL, MSL or GLSL)
- Production experience shipping with at least two of Metal, DirectX 12, Vulkan or GNM/GNMX
- Deep working knowledge of the full pipeline: rasterization, compute and hardware-accelerated ray tracing
- Fluency in modern rendering techniques: PBR, GI, ambient occlusion, volumetrics, and post-processing (AA, HDR, tone mapping, motion blur), with awareness of current GPU-driven pipelines, meshlet rendering, and real-time path tracing workflows
- Comfortable dropping into unfamiliar codebases and making sound architectural calls independently
- Solid applied 3D maths, plus technical writing other engineers actually want to read
Bonus Points
- Practical experience with mesh shading pipelines (DX12, Vulkan, Metal) to optimize geometry processing and reduce CPU overhead
- Familiarity with modern hardware variations, including console and Apple Silicon unified memory architectures
- Shipped ray tracing or heavily compute-driven rendering
- Extensive Unreal Engine source modifications
What You'll Do
- Turn the art team’s vision into shippable, scalable rendering technology
- Design, build and maintain high-performance rendering backends with clean abstractions across PC, console and Mac
- Profile and resolve deep GPU/CPU bottlenecks: occupancy, tile memory pressure, indirect dispatch overhead, bandwidth
- Modernize pipelines with GPU-driven culling, indirect command buffers and bindless architectures
- Design concurrent GPU memory management on modern API features and memory heaps
- Extend major engines (including Unreal source) and custom C++ architectures
- The opportunity to represent the studio externally through white papers or presenting at industry events
Our Benefits
- Flexible working: Remote-friendly long before it was the norm, with core hours that support both great work and real life.
- Support & wellbeing: Mental health first-aiders, therapy and coaching via Myndup, plus private medical insurance to help you stay healthy and supported.
- Pension & life cover: A strong pension plan and life insurance to support your future and protect your family.
- Time for you: Minimum 25 days’ holiday, a paid winter break, and 3 volunteering days each year to give back to causes you care about.
- Parental leave: Family-first policies that support parents and caregivers with flexibility and balance.
- Levelling up: Annual L&D budget, expert talks, game jams, and mentoring opportunities to help you grow your skills and career.
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