Senior Rendering Engineer — Unreal 5 Open-World Graphics

CD Projekt; California City (CA); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

CD PROJEKT RED is seeking a Senior Rendering Engineer to join the team working on Cyberpunk 2, the next major title in the Cyberpunk franchise. You will develop rendering solutions and optimizations using Unreal Engine 5 to push visual fidelity and performance.

You will collaborate with engineers and artists to deliver cutting-edge visuals in a large open-world environment, focusing on runtime performance, memory efficiency, and cross-team integration for a seamless player experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience.
• Experience on AAA console titles, particularly with Unreal Engine.
• Fluent in C++ with in-depth graphics programming experience.
• Proficiency with Unreal Engine 5 or equivalent in-house engine.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, debug, and optimize graphics systems for performance and memory.
• Develop rendering solutions for a large-scale, open-world environment with other engineers and content teams.
• Help art teams render vast characters and a cyberpunk world with advanced fidelity.
• Optimize runtime performance and memory utilization on CPU and GPU.

Skills

C++

Graphics programming

Unreal Engine

Multithreading

Profiling

Communication

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

DirectX12

Vulkan

RenderDoc

Pix

Job description

CD PROJEKT RED is seeking a Senior Rendering Engineer to join the team working on Cyberpunk 2, the next major title in the Cyberpunk franchise. You will develop rendering solutions and optimizations using Unreal Engine 5 to push visual fidelity and performance.

You will collaborate with engineers and artists to deliver cutting-edge visuals in a large open-world environment, focusing on runtime performance, memory efficiency, and cross-team integration for a seamless player experience.