Senior 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
You will design, build and support state-of-the-art rendering technology used to drive advanced character rendering forward in Epic, such as hair and cloth rendering, ray tracing, light transport algorithms, and general computer graphics techniques
In this role, you will
• Work with the MetaHuman visual fidelity improvement content team (art) to support, guide, and implement advanced character rendering techniques
• Work on rendering efforts to meet the technical goals determined by the MetaHuman organization in Epic and work closely with the Unreal Engine rendering team
• Responsible for optimizing and improving advanced character rendering infrastructure systems including hair rendering, texture streaming, virtual texturing, mGPU, etc
• Drive tools that go along with features and ensure they are usable and appropriate for artists and MetaHuman users across games and film
• Help support external clients by identifying areas for improvement and designing/implementing solutions.
What we're looking for
• Development experience on commercially released video games or software for the games industry
• Development of high end rendering technology for modern game engines
• Programming languages: C/C++, HLSL, Visual Studio, Perforce
• A solid understanding of rendering, light transport, computer graphics, ray tracing, path tracing, and other current rendering techniques
• A solid understanding of performance and optimization techniques
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
BEING A PART OF 3LATERAL TEAM
Our mission is to evolve through exploring abstract landscapes of art and science, exciting new technologies and, most importantly, through nurturing continuous multi-disciplinary communication and company values among our team members. Our talented and devoted individuals are all gathered around the same vision of creating and constantly improving technology that allows creation of high-fidelity replicas of human appearance and motion with special focus on real time and usable across all digital mediums.
In order to ensure a supportive and collaborative environment we:
• Enable professional long-term career development through continuous education and specialization
• Work with exciting new technologies and ambitious, industry changing, projects
• Attendance at the leading seminars and conferences from the industry
• Sustain personal goals through family-oriented work regulations
• Empower autonomy of thinking and acting
• Pleasant working atmosphere in our cozy offices with friendly and well-minded individuals
• Work from home model during pandemic
We are looking for new team members who can inspire us and are willing to give us a chance to inspire them, contribute to their ideas, skills and knowledge. With joint forces with our mother company Epic Games we are continually developing the state of the art in Unreal Engine as a leading team for creation of next generation virtual humans and creatures.
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-23o84m-3-17-159-53-42 in your application.