Senior Unreal Engine Platform Performance Engineer

Game Companies; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

31st Union in California is seeking a Senior Platform Performance Engineer to support our AAA multiplatform Unreal Engine 5 title on consoles and PC with 60+ FPS Quality and 120+ FPS Performance modes. In this role you will balance rendering, memory, CPU, and streaming performance; you will optimize existing systems and develop novel approaches to meet memory and frame-rate targets.

Collaborating with Rendering Engineering and Technical Art, you will define construction guidelines and pipelines,

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in AAA game development, including at least one shipped console title
• Real-time rendering techniques and GPU hardware
• Unreal Engine 5 and underlying technologies
• Write, debug, and analyze shaders and pipelines using platform GPU tools
• Shipped rendering optimization or your own design walkthrough
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Profile and optimize GPU, CPU, memory utilization and streaming on consoles and PC
• Implement Build, Cook and Runtime systems for multiplatform content within memory and performance targets
• Define construction guidelines and scalability pipelines for 60+ FPS Quality and 120+ FPS Performance modes
• Implement platform- and scalability-specific rendering features
• Resolve platform-specific technical requirements

Skills

AAA game development

Unreal Engine 5

Shader debugging

GPU performance tools

Rendering optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

31st Union in California is seeking a Senior Platform Performance Engineer to support our AAA multiplatform Unreal Engine 5 title on consoles and PC with 60+ FPS Quality and 120+ FPS Performance modes. In this role you will balance rendering, memory, CPU, and streaming performance; you will optimize existing systems and develop novel approaches to meet memory and frame-rate targets.

Collaborating with Rendering Engineering and Technical Art, you will define construction guidelines and pipelines,