Senior Real-Time Rendering Engineer

Epic Games; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with match

Unlimited PTO

Sabbatical after 7 years

Job summary

Epic Games in Cary, NC is seeking a Senior Rendering Engineer for the Fortnite Desktop team to enhance PC visuals and rendering systems across diverse hardware. You will collaborate with engineers to optimize the shader pipeline, analyze performance data, and improve stability across graphics APIs while supporting Unreal Engine rendering in Fortnite-specific use cases.

Strong C++ skills, multi-threading, and real-time rendering experience are essential for this role, with opportunities to work

Qualifications

• Strong C++ knowledge and multi-threaded programming experience.
• Real-time rendering experience in games or computer graphics industry; familiarity with graphics APIs (DirectX 12 preferred).
• Experience with profiling and optimizing large codebases.
• Ability to reason about and debug complex, interdependent systems.
• Experience with Windows APIs and common frameworks is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and resolve stability and performance issues for Fortnite on a wide range of PC hardware.
• Improve Unreal Engine rendering systems across Fortnite-specific use cases.
• Collaborate with Epic teams and GPU vendors to resolve technical issues and optimize graphics drivers.

Skills

C++

Multi-threading

Real-time rendering

OS-level systems

Job description

Epic Games in Cary, NC is seeking a Senior Rendering Engineer for the Fortnite Desktop team to enhance PC visuals and rendering systems across diverse hardware. You will collaborate with engineers to optimize the shader pipeline, analyze performance data, and improve stability across graphics APIs while supporting Unreal Engine rendering in Fortnite-specific use cases.

Strong C++ skills, multi-threading, and real-time rendering experience are essential for this role, with opportunities to work