Realtime Supervisor (Unreal Engine)

TL;DR

Realtime Supervisor (Unreal Engine): Taking overall responsibility for realtime delivery across projects, ensuring quality, performance, and deadlines are met with an accent on leading teams, shaping technical direction, and defining workflows. Focus on navigating complexity, maintaining high visual and performance standards, and overseeing optimisation strategies.

Location: London or Stockholm (Hybrid – Office presence strongly preferred)

Company

hirify.global is a global studio bringing imagination to life through world-class technology and extraordinary talent, spanning Scanning, Mocap, Cinematics, VFX, and Animation.

What you will do

• Take overall responsibility for realtime delivery on projects, ensuring quality, performance, and deadlines are met.
• Lead and support realtime teams across multiple productions, providing direction, structure, and clarity.
• Define and own project-specific realtime workflows in collaboration with Pipeline, Production, and other department leads.
• Act as the primary escalation point for realtime-related risks, blockers, and technical decisions.
• Work closely with producers and executive producers on project planning, scoping, bidding, and feasibility.
• Oversee performance and optimisation strategy across projects, balancing creative ambition with technical constraints.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in realtime production environments such as AAA games, high-end cinematics, or virtual production, with time spent at Senior or Lead level.
• Proven experience leading or supervising realtime teams and owning delivery across projects.
• Deep practical understanding of Unreal Engine and its use in commercial or client-facing productions.
• Strong knowledge of realtime rendering, lighting, optimisation, and cinematic workflows.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Perforce or Git.
• Experience supporting or guiding tool development using Python, Blueprints, or other scripting approaches.
• Fluency in English.

Nice to have

• Experience supervising virtual production projects or on-set realtime workflows.
• Knowledge of in-engine physics systems for cloth, grooms, or destruction, or experience with Chaos.
• Background in one or more core 3D disciplines.
• Experience with Houdini, Blender, shader languages (HLSL), or C++.

Culture & Benefits

• Strong emphasis on work-life balance and employee well-being within an inclusive company culture.
• Hybrid working model with full flexibility to work from home, the office, or a mix, with encouraged office presence for collaboration.
• Supportive and friendly atmosphere that values knowledge-sharing, teamwork, and curiosity.
• Access to industry-leading pipeline, software, tools, and workflows.
• Opportunities to join workshops, attend training, and work on a wide range of ambitious projects.
• Encouragement for internal mobility and career progression.