Rendering Engineer

Job Description

ENGINEERING - UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is searching for a Rendering Architecture Programmer to help enhance and maintain the Material system and Material editor in Unreal Engine. You will work directly with some of the brightest technical and artistic minds in the industry as we build the premier material system and material editor that will be used.

In this role, you will
• Work with tech artists to improve workflows and tools when authoring materials on large projects
• Improve iteration and build times by working with tech artists and the shader compiler team to reduce shader and material permutations.
• Help us raise the final visual fidelity of material layers in Unreal through a combination of novel new graphics techniques and improvements to existing techniques
• Improve the material compiler to have new language features to manage the complexity of large material graphs.
• Drive tools that go along with features and ensure they are usable and appropriate for artists and the engine across games and film
• Help supporting external clients identifying areas for improvement and designing/implementing solutions
• Be forward-thinking to keep up to date on current techniques, research, graphics data, hardware, etc

What we're looking for
• Strong C++ knowledge and multi-threaded programming techniques; ability to code and architect various core engine systems
• Thorough knowledge and proficient application of 3D math, rendering algorithms, and data structures
• Strong communication and proficiency in working with technical artists to develop and iterate on features/tools
• Deep knowledge of at least one graphics API (DirectX11, DirectX12, OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, etc)
• Demonstrated performance and memory optimization skills

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9y9j9-3-133-121-160-42 in your application.