Senior Rendering Engineer
CD PROJEKT RED2 days ago
Remote, Canada or Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Maintain, debug, and enhance graphics systems for performance and memory improvements.
- Develop rendering solutions for a large-scale open-world game in collaboration with engineers, artists, and content teams.
- Help art teams deliver characters and environments with high runtime graphical fidelity.
- Optimize CPU and GPU runtime performance and memory utilization.
- Profile and troubleshoot low-level rendering issues, including GPU hangs and crashes.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience.
- Experience working on AAA console titles, particularly with Unreal Engine.
- Fluent 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 or Pix.
- Demonstrated ability to profile and optimize performance at a low level.
- Effective communication, ownership, responsibility, and proactive collaboration.
- Preferred: at least one shipped Unreal-based project.
- Preferred: knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 rendering technologies including Nanite, Lumen, and Niagara.
- Preferred: experience solving GPU hangs and crashes, working with Unreal Groom or similar hair-strand systems, and implementing hardware-based real-time ray tracing.
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 annually.
- RRSP with employer matching.
- Lifestyle Spending Account of $100 per month for fitness, wellness, internet, home office equipment, learning, and streaming services.
- One additional day of menstrual leave for employees who menstruate.
- RED Parents Network support for working parents.
- Flexible working hours.
- Internal trainings, lectures, workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, tutorials, and e-learning courses.
- Welcome pack and dog-friendly office.
- 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.