Remote Senior Platform Performance Engineer (Unreal 5)

2K; United States; Remote; USD 113,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Equity awards

Medical benefits

Other benefits

Job summary

31st Union is seeking a Senior Platform Performance Engineer to support our AAA Unreal Engine 5 title on consoles and PC with 60+ FPS Quality and 120+ FPS Performance modes. You will balance rendering and memory, CPU, and streaming performance across PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

You will work with Rendering Engineering and Technical Art to define scalable pipelines, implement platform-specific rendering features and resolve technical requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in AAA game development, with at least one shipped console title.
• Deep understanding of real-time rendering techniques and GPU hardware.
• Deep understanding of Unreal Engine 5 and related tech.
• Ability to write, debug, and analyze shaders and pipelines using GPU tools.
• Shipped rendering optimization or approximation design with walkthrough ability.

Responsibilities

• Profile and optimize GPU, CPU, memory usage and streaming on target platforms.
• Implement Build, Cook and Runtime systems for multiplatform content within targets.
• Define construction guidelines and pipelines for 60+ FPS Quality and 120+ FPS Performance modes.
• Implement platform- and scalability-specific rendering features.
• Address platform-specific technical requirements.

Skills

Real-time rendering

UE5 expertise

Shader debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

Graphics optimization

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

PS5/Xbox dev tools

Job description

31st Union is seeking a Senior Platform Performance Engineer to support our AAA Unreal Engine 5 title on consoles and PC with 60+ FPS Quality and 120+ FPS Performance modes. You will balance rendering and memory, CPU, and streaming performance across PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

You will work with Rendering Engineering and Technical Art to define scalable pipelines, implement platform-specific rendering features and resolve technical requirements.