Senior Rendering Engineer

Striking Distance Studios continues to grow. We are looking for talented developers with experience working on large-scale, live service games to join us in our San Ramon studio.

What we need:

Striking Distance Studios is looking for an experienced Sr. Rendering Engineer to help create a new next generation AAA experience.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with technology director/architect on technical design and feature roll out.
• Coordinate with leads to ensure smooth roll out of new features.
• Research and develop real-time rendering techniques and features.
• Stay up to day with graphics papers and technology.
• Perform CPU and GPU performance profiling and optimizations.
• Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly performant code.
• Adhere to team coding standards and best practices.
• Review the work of other engineers and provide mentorship on your area of knowledge.
• Communicate accurate status updates to your team leads, producers, and QA regarding tasks/features you are responsible for.
• Communicate and educate fellow developers about implemented features and rendering technologies in general.
• Foster a culture of open, honest, and respectful communication across all disciplines.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of games industry experience and preferably 2 years or more in a similar role. Unreal experience preferable.
• Experience on the current generation of consoles (PS4, Xbox One).
• Excellent debugging and performance analysis skills.
• Knowledge of performance and memory constraints as they relate to game development.
• Eye for photorealism and taste for aesthetics.
• Very strong knowledge in 3D math, graphics pipelines and rendering techniques.
• Passion to explore new R&D ideas and new technology, strive to overcome technology barriers.
• Positive and enthusiastic to engage new challenges.
• Open minded, willing to be continuously learning, and with exceptional communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to be self-directed, focused and detail oriented.