Senior Rendering Engineer

Remote · 7+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

Atmosphere and visual fidelity are core to what makes our games work — and as we move into our most ambitious chapter yet, we're looking for a Rendering Engineer to help push the visual bar on Unreal Engine 5.
As a Rendering Engineer, you'll work within Core Engineering to build, optimize, and maintain the rendering systems and visual pipelines that define the look and performance of our games.
You'll partner with the Lead Engineer, technical artists, and lighting/environment artists to solve rendering problems specific to a dark, atmospheric horror title — from lighting strategy and World Partition workflows to shader work and platform performance targets.

Develop, extend, and optimize rendering features and shaders in Unreal Engine 5 (materials, post-process, lighting, custom rendering passes)
Own lighting strategy decisions in partnership with environment art and lead engineering — including World Partition, GPU Lightmass, and Lumen/baked lighting tradeoffs
Profile and optimize GPU/CPU rendering performance against defined platform targets and fidelity standards
Diagnose and resolve rendering bugs, visual artifacts, and platform-specific rendering issues across target hardware
Build and maintain internal tooling to support artists and engineers working with rendering systems (profiling visualizers, lighting validation tools, etc.)
Collaborate closely with technical artists on shader authoring standards, material complexity budgets, and visual fidelity guardrails
Contribute to and help enforce the studio's performance/fidelity standards documentation
Work within our Perforce/UGS/Horde pipeline, following team branching and Definition of Done standards
Stay current on Unreal Engine rendering roadmap changes (Lumen, Nanite, Substrate, etc.) and evaluate their fit for our production needs

7+ years of professional experience as a rendering/graphics engineer, with at least one shipped title using Unreal Engine
Strong C++ skills and solid understanding of Unreal's rendering pipeline (RDG, shader compilation, material system, deferred rendering)
Experience with HLSL/shader authoring and debugging rendering issues using tools like RenderDoc or Unreal Insights
Practical experience with UE5 lighting systems — World Partition, GPU Lightmass, Lumen, and the tradeoffs between them
Strong performance-profiling instincts and experience hitting platform-specific frame budgets
Comfort working in a structured, multi-team pipeline (Perforce or similar) with defined branching and review processes
Ability to communicate rendering constraints and tradeoffs clearly to artists and designers

Experience with Nanite, Substrate, or other newer UE5 rendering features in a production setting
Horror/atmospheric-genre experience, particularly with stylized or high-contrast lighting environments
Experience building custom rendering tools or editor extensions
Console platform rendering/certification experience
Technical art background or close collaboration history with technical artists

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