Company Description
To create revolutionary, story-driven RPGs which go straight to the hearts of gamers — this is our mission. Want to dive deeper into our company’s culture? Explore our social media and check out our YouTube channel where we share behind-the-scenes insights and stories direct from our team members!
Job Description
CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Senior Rendering Engineer to work on Project Orion, the follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077 and the next major video game in the Cyberpunk franchise. In this role, you will become part of the Orion Team responsible for developing Rendering solutions and optimizations to enable designers and artists to deliver on the vision of the game.
You'll be working with our rendering team, who are working with Unreal Engine 5 to define the future of visual fidelity in our games. You will be working with engineers and artists to breathe life into our titles.
Daily Responsibilities:
- Maintaining and optimizing existing rendering systems.
- Developing new rendering solutions for large-scale problems.
- Working closely with art teams to provide performant and effective solutions.
- Bringing our characters and worlds to life with your rendering knowledge.
- Optimizing performance & memory utilization.
Qualifications
- 12+ years of industry experience.
- Fluent C++ and strong experience with graphics programming are essential.
- Professional knowledge of Unreal Engine, preferably a shipped title with UE technology.
- Strong knowledge of rendering techniques and GPU/CPU architecture.
- Strong multithreaded programming experience.
- Experience with one or more low-level graphics API (DirectX12, Vulkan, console, etc.).
- Strong experience with at least one graphics debugging tool (RenderDoc, Pix, console-specific, etc.).
- Experience with low-level profiling and optimization.
- Strong communication skills, responsibility, sense of ownership and dedication for work.
- A proactive attitude towards helping the team to get their work done faster and more efficiently.
Nice to have:
- Shipped at least one Unreal-based project for Xbox, Playstation consoles.
Additional Information
This job can be hybrid/in-office from Boston or fully remote.
Health & Well-being
- Company paid medical healthcare (dental vision & mental).
- Paid Leave — 20 days of holiday for every team member per year (26 days after two years).
- No dress-code — we like to keep it casual.
- 401K with employer matching.
- Gym Membership Reimbursement.
Perks & Professional Growth
- Flexible working hours.
- Trainings, lectures and courses — internal workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available. There’s always something to learn!
- Merch — gifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!
- A welcome pack filled with goodies — to help you feel right at home once you join the team.
Life in the Office
- Dog-friendly office — dog owner? Bring your pooch with you and look after them while working! There’s always a furry friend or two to meet at the studio.
- Truly international working environment — a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world.
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Top Skills
What We Do
CD PROJEKT RED is home to over 900 game-making professionals from all over the globe. We speak many different languages, but share one love — video games.
The studio’s portfolio largely comprises The Witcher series of role-playing games, including 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which received over 250 Game of the Year awards. In 2020, the studio released its most recent game: Cyberpunk 2077 — a first-person RPG set in a futuristic, high-tech world. Other notable releases include Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, and GWENT: The Witcher Card Game — in which players create decks of witcher-world warriors and fight epic card battles with other people around the globe.
Headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, CD PROJEKT RED has offices in Kraków and Wrocław, as well as in Los Angeles and Vancouver.
The studio is part of the larger CD PROJEKT S.A. Capital Group, which also includes Spokko, a mobile-focused developer responsible for The Witcher: Monster Slayer, and The Molasses Flood, a development studio in Boston, which is currently working on a game based on one of CD PROJEKT RED’s IPs.
As the company grows, the overall studio mission remains the same: we strive to create the best RPGs in the world, while always keeping gamers’ needs at the core.
