Senior Rendering Engineer (Unreal Engine)

Location: Remote within the United States

Salary: $113,000–$136,000 annually for all other U.S. locations; $132,000–$160,000 annually in Austin, Denver, Nashville, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and Miami metropolitan areas; $152,000–$184,000 annually in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas.

Company

hirify.global is a startup multimedia studio known for the indie horror game franchise Poppy Playtime.

What you will do

• Develop, extend, and optimize Unreal Engine 5 rendering features, materials, post-processing, lighting, custom rendering passes, and shaders.
• Define lighting strategies with engineering and environment art, including World Partition, GPU Lightmass, Lumen, and baked-lighting tradeoffs.
• Profile and optimize GPU and CPU rendering performance against platform frame budgets and visual-fidelity targets.
• Diagnose rendering bugs, visual artifacts, and platform-specific issues across target hardware.
• Build internal profiling visualizers, lighting validation tools, and other tools for artists and engineers.
• Collaborate with technical artists on shader standards, material complexity budgets, fidelity guidelines, and rendering documentation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience as a rendering or graphics engineer, including at least one shipped Unreal Engine title.
• Strong C++ skills and a solid understanding of the Unreal rendering pipeline, including RDG, shader compilation, materials, and deferred rendering.
• Experience authoring HLSL shaders and debugging rendering issues with RenderDoc or Unreal Insights.
• Practical UE5 lighting experience with World Partition, GPU Lightmass, and Lumen.
• Strong performance-profiling skills and experience meeting platform-specific frame budgets.
• Ability to communicate rendering constraints and tradeoffs clearly to artists and designers.

Nice to have

• Production experience with Nanite, Substrate, or other newer UE5 rendering features.
• Experience with horror or atmospheric games and stylized or high-contrast lighting.
• Experience building custom rendering tools or editor extensions.
• Console rendering or certification experience.
• Technical art experience or close collaboration with technical artists.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct influence over the visual identity of a high-visibility game franchise.
• Close collaboration with engineering leadership and art direction on rendering strategy.
• Collaborative, low-ego engineering culture with senior and lead support.
• Benefits are available to eligible U.S.-based full-time employees, including profit sharing, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) matching, FSA/HSA, paid time off, sick time, holidays, and parental leave.