Rendering Engineer (GameDev)

TL;DR

Senior Rendering Engineer (GameDev): Developing and optimizing rendering features and tools within a live game environment with an accent on graphics APIs, shader performance, and GPU/CPU optimization. Focus on architecting technical designs for visuals, collaborating with diverse stakeholders, and contributing to console programming challenges.

Location: Local to Vancouver or Los Angeles, or willing to relocate.

Company

hirify.global is a game development studio founded with the philosophy that talented people given creative freedom will make extraordinary games.

What you will do

• Work on the full rendering tech stack, from tools and engine interfaces to API invocation and shader authoring.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain rendering features and tools in a live game environment.
• Create, architect, and document technical designs for rendering features.
• Collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders including engineers, artists, and QA to deliver impressive, high-performance visuals.
• Contribute to healthy team morale and culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in games programming.
• Expert technical experience in C++, shaders, graphics APIs, and graphics debugging tools.
• Strong understanding of the graphics rendering pipeline and excellent 3D math skills.
• Expertise in several areas: shader performance, material artist workflows, lighting, particle systems, post processing, volumetrics, occlusion culling, GPU-driven rendering, low-level graphics API abstraction, tools and engine architecture, environment/character rendering, GPU/CPU optimization.
• Console programming experience.
• Comfortable in a mature codebase.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work in an environment that values creative freedom.
• Contribute to healthy team morale and culture.
• Share and receive opinions about the game as a whole.
• Work with humble and open-minded colleagues, welcoming discussion and feedback.