Senior Rendering Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +14 more states.

📋 Description

• Design, enhance, and optimize rendering features and shaders in Unreal Engine 5, covering materials, post-processing, lighting, and custom rendering passes.

• Drive lighting strategy decisions in collaboration with environment art and lead engineering, focusing on World Partition, GPU Lightmass, and the trade-offs between Lumen and baked lighting.

• Analyze and improve GPU/CPU rendering performance to meet established platform targets and fidelity standards.

• Identify and fix rendering bugs, visual artifacts, and platform-specific rendering challenges across targeted hardware.

• Develop and sustain internal tools to assist artists and engineers working with rendering systems, such as profiling visualizers and lighting validation utilities.

• Work closely with technical artists on shader authoring standards, material complexity limits, and visual fidelity guidelines.

• Aid in the development and enforcement of the studio's performance and fidelity standards documentation.

• Operate within the Perforce/UGS/Horde pipeline, adhering to team branching and Definition of Done standards.

• Keep abreast of updates in the Unreal Engine rendering roadmap, including Lumen, Nanite, and Substrate, and assess their suitability for production requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of professional experience as a rendering or graphics engineer.

• At least one shipped title developed using Unreal Engine.

• Proficient in C++ programming.

• Strong grasp of Unreal's rendering pipeline (RDG, shader compilation, material system, deferred rendering).

• Experience with HLSL and shader authoring.

• Proficient in debugging rendering issues using tools such as RenderDoc or Unreal Insights.

• Hands-on experience with UE5 lighting systems — including World Partition, GPU Lightmass, and Lumen — and understanding their trade-offs.

• Strong instincts for performance profiling and experience meeting platform-specific frame budgets.

• Comfortable working within a structured, multi-team pipeline (Perforce or similar) with established branching and review processes.

• Ability to clearly articulate rendering constraints and trade-offs to artists and designers.

• Experience with Nanite, Substrate, or other new UE5 rendering features in a production environment.

• Background in horror or atmospheric genres, especially with stylized or high-contrast lighting settings.

• Experience in developing custom rendering tools or editor extensions.

• Knowledge of console platform rendering and certification processes.

• Technical art background or a strong history of collaboration with technical artists.

🏝️ Benefits

• Profit sharing.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k) matching.

• FSA/HSA.

• Paid time off.

• Sick time.

• Holidays.

• Parental leave.

• Direct impact on the visual identity of a flagship, high-visibility franchise.

• Close collaboration with engineering leadership and art direction on rendering strategy.

• A cooperative, low-ego engineering culture supported by strong senior and lead personnel.