Senior Unreal Engine Developer - Photorealistic AAA Gameplay

NinjaGaming; Dubai; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

NinjaGaming in Dubai seeks a Senior Unreal Engine Game Developer to build a next‑gen, ultra‑realistic game featuring lifelike characters, real‑time streaming, and cinematic visuals.

The role requires expert Unreal Engine 5 and C++ skills, plus experience with MetaHumans, motion capture, and AI voice systems. Collaboration across art, design, and backend teams is essential for a scalable, low‑latency architecture.

Qualifications

• Professional Unreal Engine 5 and C++ development experience.
• Experience developing AAA-quality or highly realistic games.
• Experience integrating cloud-based game streaming or live video streaming technologies.
• Familiarity with WebRTC, RTMP, SRT, or low-latency streaming protocols.
• Knowledge of backend services, APIs, and scalable server architecture.
• Deep understanding of rendering pipelines, shaders, and performance optimization.
• Experience with MetaHuman, motion capture, facial capture, and animation retargeting.
• Experience integrating AI voice / text-to-speech systems and real-time conversational audio pipelines.
• Experience integrating realistic physics and character interaction systems.
• Familiarity with multiplayer architecture and networking.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git or Perforce.
• Portfolio demonstrating AAA-quality or photorealistic Unreal Engine projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core gameplay systems using Unreal Engine 5, C++, and Blueprints.
• Integrate real human character models, MetaHumans, or scanned 3D characters into gameplay.
• Implement realistic body movement, facial expressions, lip sync, and lifelike gameplay motion capture animations.
• Integrate AI voice technologies for real-time character dialogue, including text-to-speech and lip sync.
• Design and integrate scalable, low-latency live streaming solutions to broadcast real-time gameplay.
• Optimize video encoding, streaming performance, and synchronization for smooth viewing.
• Optimize rendering performance while maintaining AAA visual quality.
• Create advanced AI behaviors and realistic character interactions.
• Collaborate with artists, animators, designers, and backend engineers throughout the lifecycle.
• Profile, debug, and optimize CPU, GPU, and memory performance across target platforms.

Skills

Unreal Engine 5

C++ development

Blueprints

AAA visuals

Real-time streaming

WebRTC

RTMP

MetaHumans

Motion capture

Lip sync

AI voice systems

Physics/Ragdoll

Networking

Git/Perforce

Shaders

Profiling

Tools

Git

Perforce

Job description

NinjaGaming in Dubai seeks a Senior Unreal Engine Game Developer to build a next‑gen, ultra‑realistic game featuring lifelike characters, real‑time streaming, and cinematic visuals.

The role requires expert Unreal Engine 5 and C++ skills, plus experience with MetaHumans, motion capture, and AI voice systems. Collaboration across art, design, and backend teams is essential for a scalable, low‑latency architecture.