Senior Rendering Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Oct 14, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
To enhance the visual fidelity of a flagship horror franchise, the full-time Senior Rendering Engineer will develop and optimize rendering features in Unreal Engine 5, collaborating closely with artists and engineers while working remotely.
Key responsibilities
- Develop, extend, and optimize rendering features and shaders in Unreal Engine 5
- Own lighting strategy decisions in partnership with environment art and lead engineering
- Profile and optimize GPU/CPU rendering performance against defined platform targets
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of professional experience as a rendering/graphics engineer with at least one shipped title using Unreal Engine
- Strong C++ skills and a solid understanding of Unreal's rendering pipeline
- Experience with HLSL/shader authoring and debugging rendering issues using tools like RenderDoc
- Practical experience with UE5 lighting systems such as World Partition and Lumen
- Comfort working in a structured, multi-team pipeline with defined branching and review processes
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