Senior Rendering Engineer - Fortnite/Unreal Engine

Epic Games; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 198,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health premiums for you and dependents

Comprehensive benefits package

Unlimited PTO

Sabbatical after seven years

Company events

Mental well-being program

Job summary

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Rendering Engineer to join the Unreal Engine Desktop team in Vancouver, BC. You will help enhance PC rendering, optimize the rendering pipeline, and ensure a high‑quality player experience across a wide range of hardware.

Work closely with engineers, GPU vendors, and platform teams to improve stability, performance, and features, including shader pipelines and DirectX 12 integration.

Qualifications

• Strong C++ knowledge and multi-threaded programming techniques.
• Real-time rendering experience in the games industry or computer graphics.
• Experience in profiling and optimizing a large codebase.
• Ability to reason about and debug large, interacting systems from macro- to micro-level.
• Experience with OS-level systems, Windows APIs, and common frameworks is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and resolve stability and performance problems of Fortnite on a wide range of PC hardware configurations, including CPU/GPU performance, shader pipeline, and rendering systems.
• Monitor stability and performance data from Fortnite releases and improve Unreal Engine’s rendering systems in Fortnite-specific use cases.
• Collaborate with Epic teams and GPU vendors to resolve technical issues and improve underlying technologies.
• Assess performance data across hardware configurations and refine rendering systems accordingly.

Skills

C++

Multithreaded programming

Real-time rendering

Graphics API knowledge

Profiling

OS Windows APIs

Tools

DirectX 12

Windows APIs

Job description

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Rendering Engineer to join the Unreal Engine Desktop team in Vancouver, BC. You will help enhance PC rendering, optimize the rendering pipeline, and ensure a high‑quality player experience across a wide range of hardware.

Work closely with engineers, GPU vendors, and platform teams to improve stability, performance, and features, including shader pipelines and DirectX 12 integration.