About the role

  • Expert Rendering Engineer developing core rendering features for Cyberpunk 2 at CD PROJEKT RED. Optimize GPU performance and mentor team while ensuring visual fidelity and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement engine enhancements to meet performance and functionality requirements
  • Identify rendering limitations in Unreal Engine and design solutions that support our visual identity and fidelity goals
  • Establish GPU frame budgets in collaboration with the technical art department
  • Partner with art teams to create tools and technologies that bring dynamism to our worlds
  • Improve and maintain shared engine technology across the company to support multiple projects and teams
  • Debug and resolve engine and game issues, ensuring stability and performance
  • Optimize memory usage, GPU and CPU workloads, and rendering performance across platforms
  • Mentor programmers and provide technical guidance to the team

Requirements

  • Extensive professional experience in game development, including significant focus on rendering architecture
  • Experience contributing to a shipped game project in a production environment
  • Experience developing for consoles (e.g., Xbox, PlayStation) and PC platforms
  • Strong proficiency in C++
  • Strong experience with GPU-driven rendering pipeline techniques
  • Deep understanding of data structures, streaming workflows, and multithreaded programming
  • Experience with low-level GPU profiling, debugging, and optimization
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical challenges and deliver effective solutions
  • Commitment to high technical standards and advancing game engine technology
  • Clear communication skills and a collaborative, proactive approach to teamwork

Benefits

  • Company-paid medical healthcare (dental, vision, and mental)
  • Free mental health support, including access to counseling, psychiatric care, and a variety of well-being webinars
  • Paid leave — 26 days of vacation, 10 sick days, & 12 calendar holidays per year
  • 401K with employer matching
  • Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) – $100 per month to use towards fitness, wellness, internet, home office equipment, learning, streaming services, and more
  • Menstrual leave — employees who menstruate can take one extra day off when experiencing period pain
  • RED Parents Network — support for working parents
  • Flexible working hours
  • Trainings, lectures, and courses — internal workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available
  • A welcome pack filled with goodies — to help you feel right at home once you join the team
  • Dog-friendly office — bring your pooch with you and look after them while working
  • Truly international working environment — a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world
  • No dress-code — we like to keep it casual

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$168,200 - $257,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Unreal Engine

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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