Senior Unreal Rendering Engineer

Are you an experienced Rendering Engineer passionate about pushing the limits of visual fidelity and performance in Unreal Engine 5?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a cutting edge studio developing a next generation open world multiplayer game built around stunning visuals, scalability, and procedural world creation.

The role

As a Senior Rendering Engineer, you'll take ownership of rendering systems at both the engine and project level, developing and optimising advanced graphics pipelines that bring large scale environments to life. You'll collaborate closely with world, art, and technical teams to balance creativity and performance, building efficient workflows that allow for beautiful, immersive, and highly responsive worlds.

This hybrid or on site role is based in the Greater London area (Guildford or London) and offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of Unreal Engine 5 technology alongside a talented, international team.

What you'll be doing

• Develop and extend Unreal Engine 5 rendering systems using C++ and Render Graph (RDG).
• Optimise key UE5 features including Nanite, Lumen, Virtual Shadow Maps, and Virtual Texturing for large scale environments.
• Integrate and refine procedural content generation (PCG) tools to enable dynamic world creation.
• Implement rendering friendly workflows that ensure scalability and performance across platforms.
• Profile and optimise GPU and CPU performance using RenderDoc, Unreal Insights, PIX, and Nsight.
• Work with technical artists and environment teams to balance artistic goals with system performance.
• Fine tune HLOD, culling, and world streaming for partitioned environments.
• Implement scalable lighting, atmospheric, and volumetric systems optimised for both PC and consoles.
• Support real time global illumination, ray tracing, and temporal rendering techniques (TAA/TSR).
• Ensure rendering systems integrate seamlessly with multiplayer and networked gameplay.
• Contribute to internal tooling, debugging, and automation for rendering features and performance testing.

What we're looking for

• At least 5 years of professional experience in rendering or graphics programming.
• Experience on at least two shipped titles, including one open world or large scale project.
• Deep understanding of Unreal Engine 5 rendering architecture, including RDG, Nanite, Lumen, VSM, and Virtual Texturing.
• Strong C++ and HLSL programming skills.
• Experience working with procedural generation systems such as Unreal PCG, Houdini, or World Machine.
• Proven expertise in GPU/CPU performance optimisation and multi threaded rendering.
• Hands on experience with profiling tools such as RenderDoc, Unreal Insights, PIX, and Nsight.
• Strong understanding of lighting, shading, and post processing systems.
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work effectively across art, design, and engineering teams.

If you're a Senior Rendering Engineer ready to shape the future of open world visuals and performance in Unreal Engine 5, this role offers a rare chance to make a lasting impact in one of the most exciting new studios in the industry.

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