Senior Rendering Engineer – Unreal 5 Open World

CD Projekt; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 119,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical healthcare (dental, vision, &

Mental health support

Paid leave — 26 days vacation, 10 sick

401K with employer matching

LSA – $100 per month

Menstrual leave

RED Parents Network

Flexible working hours

Job summary

CD PROJEKT RED is seeking a Senior Rendering Engineer to join the team working on Cyberpunk 2. You will develop rendering solutions and optimizations using Unreal Engine 5 to push visual fidelity in our open-world title.

You will collaborate with engineers and artists to deliver lifelike characters and environments, optimize runtime performance on CPU and GPU, and help ship cutting-edge graphics across consoles and PC.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience.
• Experience working on AAA console titles, particularly with Unreal Engine.
• Fluent in C++ with in-depth experience in graphics programming.
• Professional knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 or equivalent custom in-house engine.
• Extensive knowledge of modern rendering techniques and current GPU/CPU architecture.
• Comprehensive multithreaded programming experience.
• Experience with one or more low-level graphics API (DirectX12, Vulkan, console, etc.).
• Thorough experience with at least one graphics debugging tool (RenderDoc, Pix, console-specific, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to profile and optimize performance at a low level.
• Effective communication skills, responsibility, sense of ownership, and dedication for work.
• A proactive attitude towards helping the team to get their work done faster and more efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, debug, and enhance existing graphics systems for improved performance and memory utilization.
• Work closely with other engineers and various content teams to develop new and innovative rendering solutions for a large-scale, open-world environment.
• Help art teams bring vast amounts of unique characters and a vibrant cyberpunk world to life, pushing the boundaries of runtime graphical fidelity with your rendering knowledge and passion.
• Optimize runtime performance and memory utilization across both CPU and GPU.

Skills

C++ graphics

Unreal Engine

AAA titles experience

Rendering techniques

Multithreaded programming

Low-level graphics API

Graphics debugging tools

Performance profiling

Team collaboration

Proactive ownership

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

RenderDoc

Pix

Job description

CD PROJEKT RED is seeking a Senior Rendering Engineer to join the team working on Cyberpunk 2. You will develop rendering solutions and optimizations using Unreal Engine 5 to push visual fidelity in our open-world title.

You will collaborate with engineers and artists to deliver lifelike characters and environments, optimize runtime performance on CPU and GPU, and help ship cutting-edge graphics across consoles and PC.