Key skills
C++CCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Design and implement advanced rendering features from scratch within a high-performance C++ environment
- Build and extend rendering systems beyond standard implementations
- Focus on advanced rendering domains, including:
- Lighting pipelines
- Shadow techniques
- Global illumination
- Water rendering
- Develop and optimise shaders, including low-level shader work where required
- Optimise rendering pipelines to ensure performance across PC and console platforms
- Port and adapt rendering features across platforms, ensuring consistency and efficiency
- Collaborate with engineers and artists to align rendering systems with technical and visual goals
- Contribute to shared code reviews within the graphics team
- Document implemented systems and features to support maintainability
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in graphics or rendering programming
- Experience contributing to graphics systems in shipped PC or console titles
- Strong C++ programming skills and experience with modern graphics APIs, particularly DirectX 12 (DX12) and/or Vulkan
- Proven experience implementing rendering features from scratch
- Solid understanding of rendering techniques, including lighting systems, shadow mapping, and global illumination
- Experience with shader development (HLSL or equivalent)
- Experience optimising rendering performance across platforms
- Ability to work effectively within a specialised graphics team
- Strong communication skills in English
- You're based in Europe, have either a valid work permit for The Netherlands, France, Germany or the UK (where we are able to hire you on a local contract) or are able to work as a contractor.
Benefits
- We offer a 1-year contract to start with, with continuity across multiple long-term projects
- Fully remote working setup (and it's not gonna change)
- Join an experienced graphics team with strong AAA credentials
- Contribute to recognised franchises across multiple projects
- Work across proprietary engines, Unreal Engine, and Unity
- Exposure to complex multi-platform rendering challenges across PC and current-generation consoles
- Opportunity to deepen expertise in modern rendering techniques, including lighting, shadows, and optimisation