Senior Rendering Engineer
CD PROJEKT RED12 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Maintain, debug, and enhance existing graphics systems for improved performance and memory utilization.
- Develop innovative rendering solutions for a large-scale open-world environment in collaboration with engineers and content teams.
- Help art teams bring characters and the game world to life while advancing runtime graphical fidelity.
- Optimize runtime performance and memory utilization across CPU and GPU.
- Profile and optimize performance at a low level and investigate GPU hangs and crashes.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience.
- Experience working on AAA console titles, particularly with Unreal Engine.
- Fluency in C++ and in-depth graphics programming experience.
- Professional knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 or an equivalent custom in-house engine.
- Extensive knowledge of modern rendering techniques and current GPU/CPU architecture.
- Comprehensive multithreaded programming experience.
- Experience with one or more low-level graphics APIs, such as DirectX 12, Vulkan, or console APIs.
- Thorough experience with at least one graphics debugging tool, such as RenderDoc, Pix, or a console-specific tool.
- Experience profiling and optimizing performance at a low level.
- Effective communication, ownership, responsibility, dedication, and a proactive approach to helping the team work efficiently.
- Preferred: experience shipping an Unreal-based project.
- Preferred: working knowledge of Nanite, Lumen, Niagara, Unreal Groom or similar hair-strand systems, hardware-based ray tracing, and GPU hang or crash resolution.
Benefits
- Hybrid/in-office or fully remote work arrangement.
- Company-paid medical, dental, vision, and mental healthcare.
- Free mental health support, including counseling, psychiatric care, and well-being webinars.
- 26 vacation days, 10 sick days, and 12 calendar holidays per year.
- RRSP with employer matching.
- Lifestyle Spending Account of $100 per month for fitness, wellness, internet, home office equipment, learning, streaming services, and more.
- Menstrual leave of one additional day off for employees who menstruate.
- Support through the RED Parents Network.
- Flexible working hours.
- Internal trainings, lectures, courses, workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, tutorials, and e-learning.
- Welcome pack, dog-friendly office, international work environment, and no dress code.
- Application window closes 05/01/2027.
Tech Stack
Categories
Gaming
About CD PROJEKT RED
CD PROJEKT RED is a Warsaw-headquartered game development studio building story-driven role-playing games for PC and consoles. It is the creator of The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077, and funds itself by selling premium titles and expansions worldwide. Founded in 2002, the studio operates globally with teams in Poland and a growing hub in Boston working on new installments and original IP.