Senior 3D Programmer

Ubisoft Montréal; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ubisoft Montréal is seeking a hands‑on senior engineer to design and maintain core engine foundations in Unreal Engine, emphasizing stability and scalability for a live multiplayer experience.

You will lead rendering and performance initiatives, collaborating with Gameplay, Tech Art, VFX, Level Art, Tools, and Build teams to ensure rapid delivery without compromising quality. Daily code, debugging, and documenting decisions elevate team standards.

Qualifications

• An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• A minimum of 7 years' experience in general programming, ideally in the video‑game industry.
• A proficiency to communicate with all disciplines and to support and elevate the team in terms of visuals and performance.
• Experience with HLSL, DirectX.
• Proficiency in C++.
• Experience developing on video‑game consoles and in performance optimization for consoles.
• You are a philomath (a lover of maths).
• You are creative and thirsty for innovation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain core engine foundations in Unreal Engine, with a strong focus on stability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead rendering and frame performance initiatives, including GPU/CPU diagnostics and optimization, budget definition, and safeguards.
• Own technical solutions end‑to‑end: design, implementation, integration, review, and hardening.
• Collaborate daily with Gameplay, Tech Art, VFX, Level Art, Tools, and Build teams to enable rapid delivery without sacrificing performance.
• Write code daily, debug deep within the engine, document rationale, and raise quality through best practices and design patterns.

Skills

C++

HLSL

DirectX

Cross-disciplinary communication

Performance optimization

Education

Undergraduate degree in CS or CE

Job description

Company Description

Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help create the unknown!

Job Description

We’re a small, empowered team building an ambitious multiplayer experience, developed in Unreal Engine. We’re looking for hands‑on developers with a strong execution mindset, ownership, and pride in building something real—together.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain core engine foundations in Unreal Engine, with a strong focus on stability, performance, and scalability, supporting an always‑playable, delivery‑driven production environment.
• Lead rendering and frame performance initiatives, including GPU/CPU diagnostics and optimization, budget definition, pipeline improvements, and the implementation of safeguards (profiling, regression detection, benchmarking) to ensure continuous quality.
• Own technical solutions end‑to‑end: design, implementation, integration, review, and hardening, with a production and live‑operations mindset focused on stability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate daily with Gameplay, Tech Art, VFX, Level Art, Tools, and Build teams to ensure engine‑level decisions (rendering, streaming, LODs) enable rapid delivery without compromising performance, while keeping Unreal Engine workflows efficient for a small, autonomous team.
• Embody a hands‑on senior engineering role by writing code daily, debugging deep within the engine, challenging technical approaches, documenting the rationale behind decisions, and continuously raising the team’s quality standards through best practices, design patterns, and effective technical debt management.

Qualifications

What You Bring

• An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• A minimum of 7 years' experience in general programming, ideally in the video‑game industry
• A proficiency to communicate with all disciplines and to support and elevate the team in terms of visuals and performance
• Experience with HLSL, DirectX
• Proficiency in C++
• Experience developing on video‑game consoles and in performance optimization for consoles
• You are a philomath (a.k.a. a lover of maths – algebra, geometry, calculus, the whole set)
• You are creative and thirsty for innovation

Nice to Have

• Experience as part of a team that has shipped a video game