Senior Rendering Engineer
UK Remote or West Midlands-based / Full-Time Contractor
Please note: We welcome applicants who prefer to work from home; however, we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.
Role:
As a Senior Rendering and Optimisation Engineer, you will develop and improve rendering systems, visual performance, and technical foundations that support a high-quality player experience. You will work hands-on to diagnose performance bottlenecks, optimise complex systems, and help ensure the game performs reliably across target hardware and platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Rendering Systems Development:
- Develop, maintain, and improve rendering features and supporting technical systems to achieve the required visual quality and performance.
- Investigate graphics-related issues and work with art and engineering teams to deliver practical, scalable solutions.
- Performance Profiling and Optimisation:
- Profile CPU, GPU, memory, loading, and runtime performance to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
- Optimise game systems, assets, and rendering workloads while balancing visual quality, stability, and platform requirements.
- Platform Engineering:
- Support technical development across console and PC environments, accounting for platform-specific constraints and performance characteristics.
- Help identify risks early, resolve platform-specific technical issues, and support a consistent player experience across supported hardware.
- Technical Collaboration and Quality:
- Partner with artists, designers, QA, and engineers to communicate performance budgets, technical risks, and optimisation opportunities.
- Contribute to technical planning, code reviews, debugging, and engineering best practices across the project.
Essential:
- Strong hands-on experience in rendering, optimisation, and game-engine development.
- Strong understanding of graphics performance, profiling tools, CPU and GPU bottlenecks, memory use, and runtime optimisation.
- Experience supporting game development across console and PC platforms, including platform-specific performance considerations.
- Ability to diagnose complex technical problems and deliver robust, maintainable solutions.
- Strong systems-thinking skills and an effective approach to collaborating with art and engineering disciplines.
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain technical constraints and trade-offs to multidisciplinary teams.
What We Offer:
Based just outside Birmingham, Flix is made up of welcoming, passionate, active gamers that support one another in all aspects of development. We offer you to:
- Join a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio.
- Work on market-leading AAA titles and IP with globally reputable studio and publisher partners.
- Be part of a sustainably growing game developer studio as we consciously expand our team and projects on a case-by-case basis.
- Learn within an independent studio across a wide range of projects and opportunities both internal and external.
Application:
Please send through your portfolio and cover letter. If your examples are from previous works with another studio, please make sure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners. Links to an online portfolio are preferable, otherwise we accept showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.
Send your application to – careers@flixinteractive.com
If you love making games and you would like to contribute to a team and project where your drive and skills will be welcomed and encouraged, then we would love to hear from you.
GDPR COMPLIANCE – When applying for this job you’re authorising Flix Interactive to store your application information and distribute it to the appropriate email inboxes of senior team members in order to review your role eligibility.
Your application will be stored on a private cloud based online system for processing. If you would like us to update, delete or refine your application please email info@flixinteractive.com. Your request will be appended within 30 days of receiving your email.
Please note – In compliance with GDPR law your data will be used for recruitment purposes only. We are unable to accept candidates requiring visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.
