Senior Rendering Engineer - MPG - Fully remote from the UK or the EU

Climax Studios; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios seeks a senior rendering/engine engineer to ship high‑performance rendering tech across PC, consoles, and Mac. You will optimize GPU/CPU usage, work on shader pipelines, and contribute to Unreal Engine and other custom C++ architectures.

You’ll join a team delivering cutting‑edge graphics features for demanding AAA titles, with remote‑friendly hours and a strong emphasis on technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping rendering systems for AAA, film/VFX, XR or simulation.
• Strong modern C++ skills and shader debugging.
• Production experience with graphics APIs (DX12, Vulkan, Metal) and related tooling.

Responsibilities

• Turn art team vision into shippable rendering tech across platforms.
• Build and improve high-performance rendering features for PC, consoles, Mac.
• Profile and resolve GPU/CPU bottlenecks and memory usage.
• Work with modern pipeline techniques including GPU-driven rendering.
• Extend engines (including Unreal) and custom C++ architectures.

Skills

Rendering/engine

C++ programming

Shader authoring

DirectX 12 / Vulkan / Metal

Unreal Engine

Tools

Unreal Engine

Job description

MPG is a co-development and full-development studio that partners with the leading video game studios on their custom engines: new rendering features, high performance and graphics systems that scale across AAA games, real-time simulation and XR. You’ll work deep in proprietary codebases on PC, current-gen consoles and Mac, writing low-level engine code against DirectX 12, Vulkan and Metal. No editor scripting, no glue work. This is frame-time engineering of the kind we delivered on Starfield and other technically demanding projects.

• Demonstrable experience in rendering or engine engineering, shipping rendering systems for AAA, film/VFX, XR or simulation
• Solid experience with modern C++ and confident shader authoring and debugging (HLSL, MSL or GLSL)
• Production experience with one of Metal, DirectX 12, Vulkan or GNM/GNMX and the appetite to pick up others
• Working knowledge of the pipeline: rasterization, compute and an understanding of hardware-accelerated ray tracing
• Familiarity with modern techniques: PBR, GI, ambient occlusion, volumetrics and post-processing (AA, HDR, tone mapping, motion blur)
• Comfortable dropping into unfamiliar codebases and making sound technical decisions
• Solid applied 3D maths, plus technical writing other engineers actually want to read

Bonus Points

• Practical experience with mesh shading pipelines (DX12, Vulkan, Metal)
• Familiarity with modern hardware variations, including console and Apple Silicon unified memory architectures
• Exposure to ray tracing or compute-driven rendering
• Unreal Engine source modifications

What You’ll Do

• Turn the art team’s vision into shippable, scalable rendering technology
• Build and improve high-performance rendering features across PC, console and Mac
• Profile and resolve GPU/CPU bottlenecks: occupancy, tile memory pressure, indirect dispatch overhead, bandwidth
• Work with modern pipeline techniques: GPU-driven culling, indirect command buffers and bindless architectures
• Contribute to GPU memory management built on modern API features and memory heaps
• Extend major engines (including Unreal source) and custom C++ architectures

Our Benefits

• Flexible working: Remote-friendly long before it was the norm, with core hours that support both great work and real life.
• Support & wellbeing: Mental health first-aiders, therapy and coaching via Myndup, plus private medical insurance to help you stay healthy and supported.
• Pension & life cover: A strong pension plan and life insurance to support your future and protect your family.
• Time for you: Minimum 25 days’ holiday, a paid winter break, and 3 volunteering days each year to give back to causes you care about.
• Parental leave: Family-first policies that support parents and caregivers with flexibility and balance.
• Levelling up: Annual L&D budget, expert talks, game jams, and mentoring opportunities to help you grow your skills and career.

Role Information: EN

Studio: The Multiplayer Group

Location: Europe, United Kingdom

Area of Work: Game Development

Service: Create

Service Type: Code

Employment Type: Permanent Fully Remote

Working Pattern: Full Time

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