Senior Rendering Engineer - Remote (Unreal Expert)

squanchgames; United States; Remote; USD 156,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

FSA / DCFSA

Flexible PTO

Fully remote studio

Home office stipend

Remote work stipend

Snack box

Job summary

Squanch Games is seeking a Senior Technical (Rendering) Engineer to optimize rendering and memory usage across a cross‑disciplinary team. You will drive engine improvements, prototype features, and ensure performance targets are met on PC/console builds.

You’ll collaborate with multiple departments, review code, and mentor peers while advancing cutting‑edge rendering techniques in a fully remote studio across the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience with Unreal Engine across a full development cycle (pre-production to release).
• Expertise in rendering pipelines and gameplay systems.
• Experience working directly in Unreal shader files.
• Proficiency with performance profiling, graphics debugging and memory optimization tools (PIX, RenderDoc).
• Strong 3D math skills (vectors, matrices, quaternions).
• Strong C++ skills and low‑level game systems experience.
• Multithreaded programming experience.
• Experience with multi‑platform code for PC and consoles.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with departments to identify rendering and memory optimization needs.
• Diagnose memory and rendering performance issues.
• Develop automated tests to ensure asset/memory budgets.
• Overhaul engine‑level code to optimize rendering pipelines.
• Prototype complex features and propose improvements.
• Design, implement and refine systemic features and tools for departments.
• Maintain ongoing communication with other teams to incorporate feedback.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to code reviews.

Skills

Unreal Engine

Rendering pipelines

C++

Multi-threading

3D math

Shader work

Performance profiling

Cross-disciplinary comms

Documentation

Game development

Tools

PIX

RenderDoc

Job description

Squanch Games is seeking a Senior Technical (Rendering) Engineer to optimize rendering and memory usage across a cross‑disciplinary team. You will drive engine improvements, prototype features, and ensure performance targets are met on PC/console builds.

You’ll collaborate with multiple departments, review code, and mentor peers while advancing cutting‑edge rendering techniques in a fully remote studio across the United States.