Graphics Engineer

Iron Galaxy; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Iron Galaxy Nashville, LLC is seeking a Graphics Engineer to join their team in Nashville, TN. This hybrid position allows for telecommuting but requires physical presence in the Nashville area. Candidates will develop high-performance graphics features for both internal and external projects.

The ideal candidate should possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and have at least 2 years of relevant experience. The role involves significant collaboration across teams and the opportunity to mentor junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science.
• 2 years of experience in Software Development or related occupation.

Responsibilities

• Optimize rendering performance for various hardware platforms.
• Collaborate on cross-disciplinary teams to implement features.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide feedback.
• Develop advanced rendering techniques and effects.
• Support art and design departments with technology.

Skills

Graphics Programming

C++

Modern 3D graphics techniques

Rendering performance optimization

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

RenderDoc

PIX

Job description

Iron Galaxy Nashville, LLC in Nashville, TN seeks Graphics Engineer.

Hybrid position— Telecommuting flexibility, but a requirement to physically be in the Nashville, TN area.

Develop cutting edge graphics features, techniques, and effects on both internal and external projects.

Responsibilities

• Graphics Programming - use knowledge of graphics to optimize rendering performance and ensure games can run on different rendering hardware.
• Work effectively in cross disciplinary teams and collaborate on implementing features.
• Stay up to date on game programming practices, be receptive to feedback from teammates and leads, and mentor more junior engineers.
• Serve as a people leader as it relates to management of projects when needed.
• Develop cutting edge rendering features and special effects to support the needs of internal projects and external clients.
• Support art and design departments with the best technology available to help them realize their visions.
• Analyze performance and implement optimizations at both a high and low level.
• Work with multi-disciplinary development team to help set the direction of rendering technology at Iron Galaxy.
• Use C++.
• Navigating and modify commercial and proprietary C++ game engines.
• Use of low-level shading language and graphics API.
• Use modern 3D graphics techniques.
• Stays up to date with developing trends and novel techniques in real-time rendering.
• Use of modern hardware rendering pipelines.
• Use of multiple-rendering engines and graphics hardware.
• Use high-quality graphics debuggers (e.g., RenderDoc, PIX).
• Use of modern console hardware.
• Use of current commercial-scale game engine.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science and 2 years of experience in Software Development or related occupation.