Senior Rendering Engineer

Location: Remote, with candidates required to be legally authorized to work in the U.S.; Raleigh, NC is listed as the location.

Company

hirify.global is an independent, artist-led film and television studio developing cinematic and interactive entertainment projects.

What you will do

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and performance strategy for the real-time rendering pipeline.
• Design, implement, and optimize systems for lighting, geometry, materials, shaders, post-processing, and VFX integration.
• Research and productionize advanced rendering techniques including global illumination, ray tracing, physically based shading, and temporal effects.
• Partner with Art and Technical Art leadership to define material workflows, lighting standards, asset pipelines, and artist-facing tools.
• Evaluate graphics APIs, hardware capabilities, and platform-specific features while communicating technical tradeoffs to engineering, production, and creative stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in real-time rendering engineering for games, interactive entertainment, or a related field.
• End-to-end ownership of rendering architecture and a strong portfolio of shipped titles or interactive experiences.
• Deep expertise in Vulkan, DirectX 12, Metal, or OpenGL and engine-level experience with a major real-time engine such as Unreal Engine 5.
• Expertise in C++ and shader languages including HLSL, GLSL, or WGSL, with experience writing production-grade rendering code.
• Experience with physically based rendering, deferred rendering, temporal anti-aliasing, screen-space effects, or ray tracing.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the intersection of cinematic storytelling and real-time technology.
• Collaborate with film, art, technical art, engineering, production, and creative teams.
• Contribute to ambitious entertainment IP and interactive experiences.
• Employment is full-time.