Senior Rendering API Engineer - GPU Graphics Stack

PlayStation Global; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is seeking a senior graphics engineer to work on the core PlayStation graphics stack. You will influence rendering APIs, collaborate with platform and game teams, and help shape the future of GPU technology for PlayStation.

This role emphasizes practical engineering, hands-on implementation, and close interaction with developers and hardware teams to deliver cutting-edge graphics capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience and interest in low-level graphics architecture and engineering.
• Experience writing rendering code on top of multiple existing rendering APIs.
• Experience writing rendering code on console.
• The ability to keep an eye on the big picture, even when deep in the weeds.
• A eagerness to learn and to take responsibility for the long run.

Responsibilities

• Work on current and future rendering APIs used by PlayStation games, and the hardware underpinning them.
• Design and implement features for efficient game development, push GPU programming forward, and create a healthy platform.
• Observe industry trends, understanding of – and empathy for – our customers, and business needs as the foundation of your decision making.
• Help shape the path of the PlayStation graphics stack going forward.
• Collaborate with the platform software and hardware teams, as well as game developers.
• Often take the role as the game-developer advocate when working with the platform teams, or the platform-team advocate when working with game developers.

Skills

Low-level graphics architecture

Rendering code experience

Console rendering experience

Big-picture thinking

Willingness to learn

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is seeking a senior graphics engineer to work on the core PlayStation graphics stack. You will influence rendering APIs, collaborate with platform and game teams, and help shape the future of GPU technology for PlayStation.

This role emphasizes practical engineering, hands-on implementation, and close interaction with developers and hardware teams to deliver cutting-edge graphics capabilities.