Senior Unreal Rendering Engineer - Horror Atmosphere

Mob Entertainment, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 113,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Mob Entertainment, a startup studio behind Poppy Playtime, is hiring a Rendering Engineer to elevate Unreal Engine 5 visuals and performance. You will own rendering systems, define lighting strategies, and collaborate with technical artists and environment teams to push the game's atmospheric fidelity.

You'll work across tools and pipelines (Perforce/UGS), optimize for multiple platforms, and help shape standards that govern how the title looks and runs on real hardware.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in rendering/graphics engineering.
• Shipped title using Unreal Engine with strong shader experience.
• Solid understanding of the Unreal rendering pipeline (RDG, deferred rendering).

Responsibilities

• Develop, extend, and optimize rendering features and shaders in Unreal Engine 5.
• Own lighting strategy decisions and performance targets with engineers and artists.
• Profile and optimize GPU/CPU rendering performance across target platforms.
• Diagnose rendering bugs and visual artifacts for various hardware.
• Build and maintain internal tooling for visualization and validation of rendering work.
• Collaborate with technical artists on shader standards and material budgets.
• Contribute to performance/fidelity documentation and coding standards.
• Work within Perforce/UGS/Horde pipelines and review processes.
• Stay current with Unreal Engine rendering roadmap and assess fit.

Skills

Unreal Engine

C++

Shader programming

HLSL

RenderDoc

Unreal Insights

Performance profiling

Perforce

Cross-team communication

Tools

RenderDoc

Unreal Insights

World Partition

Job description

Mob Entertainment, a startup studio behind Poppy Playtime, is hiring a Rendering Engineer to elevate Unreal Engine 5 visuals and performance. You will own rendering systems, define lighting strategies, and collaborate with technical artists and environment teams to push the game's atmospheric fidelity.

You'll work across tools and pipelines (Perforce/UGS), optimize for multiple platforms, and help shape standards that govern how the title looks and runs on real hardware.