Senior Rendering Engineer | Unreal Engine/GPU optimisation | Gaming Studio | Nintendo Switch | Remote Options | $150,000 - $200,000
  
The Company
This long-standing and well-known indie studio has taken the next step in its evolution. Originally known for its fun and quirky games across mobile and PC, they have secured contracts with top-tier organisations, working on AAA games and giant IP’s like Call of Duty and Harry Potter. With a bright future and steady growth, this studio has a large focus on work/life balance, with minimal overtime and 100% remote working options.

The Role
This studio is seeking someone with many years of experience in GPU optimization for a game utilizing the Unreal Engine for release on Nintendo Switch. A successful candidate will have extensive experience optimizing GPU performance either on Nintendo Switch or utilizing the Unreal Engine. Both would be a bonus, but not strictly necessary.
  
Responsibilities

• Contribute well-structured high-quality code, game enhancements, and features.
• Ideate, architect, and implement scalable rendering systems, pipelines and tools, collaborating with the rendering and art teams to gather requirements, and acting upon feedback to refine and hone features
• Collaborate with other programmers on performance, integration and support tasks
• Collaborate continuously with a team (artists, game designers, and producers) throughout the project life-cycle to deliver high quality games through iteratively building solutions.
• Assist in guiding and mentoring a team of bright engineers to improve the whole technical team and process through inclusive leadership.
• Handle and problem solve issues related to various gaming platforms to ensure the game is fully functional on the desired operating system.
• Support optimization of systems and deal with issues such as bug fixes and systems crashes.
• Work closely with designers to understand and refine design intentions through rapid iteration and prototyping.
• Be a go-to expert and take ownership for key areas of technology.
• Contribute to the improvement of engineering practices for better design, testing, and implementation.

  
Requirements

• Extensive experience in GPU optimisation
• Expert proficiency in the Unreal Engine
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, focusing in rendering
• Experience with a graphics API for mobile or console
• Strong in programming C# / C++
• Experience with graphics debugging and optimization
• A proven track record for working independently and collaboratively in a dynamic team setting
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written

  
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