nDreams new studio Elevation is looking for a Graphics Programmer. Elevation is seeded by the creative talent at nDreams that brought you the innovative, genre defining VR game Phantom: Covert Ops.
Elevation are looking for devs to help pave the way forward with fresh innovation for the next generation of VR hardware and software.
As Elevation seek to re-establish the boundaries of VR, you’ll help them explore, create, and deliver world leading innovation in VR games. As one of the core members of the Elevation team, you will be pathfinding a remote first studio, crafting a new generation of VR development and bringing quality VR games to fruition.
You will be responsible along with the art team for pushing the visual quality of their Unreal based games while retaining a high framerate, allowing their games to provide a level of immersion and presence that has not yet been seen in VR games.
You will be collaborating with a highly talented, diverse team to create world class VR gameplay, helping colleagues to drive the discovery, implementation and refinement of intuitive and aspirational VR games.
Your key responsibilities…
Take ownership of the game’s graphical fidelity and rendering performance of on PC and console
Develop and refine custom shaders within Unreal’s rendering pipeline
Support other disciplines in creating robust and performant art content
Specify realistic budgets for art content and helping debug performance bottlenecks
Profile and optimise the rendering pipeline for VR
Deal directly with Epic and platform holders to improve their VR rendering pipelines
Help with the higher-level technical design and project planning for your areas of work
Work with your peers to ensure our code is clean, organised, documented and easy to maintain
Break down and estimate timescales for your tasks
Be a positive behavioural and mental role model for the team and studio
The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role…
3 or more years of game industry programming experience, with at least one year of graphics programming
1 or more shipped title on a current-generation console, PC, VR headset or mobile
Good knowledge of C++, HLSL and graph-based material authoring
Demonstrable experience of authoring shaders in HLSL
Detailed knowledge of low-level graphics programming concepts (vertex, fragment, geometry and compute shaders, 3D and 4D coordinate spaces, shader and matrix maths, SIMD, blending, bandwidth management)
Detailed knowledge of modern high-level graphics programming techniques and algorithms covering lighting and shadowing, visibility, and culling, raytracing and reflections, PBR surfaces, skin and hair, anti-aliasing, post effects and their relative strengths, weaknesses and performance trade-offs
Able to combine your work with authored art to realise convincing world, character, VFX and post effects inside a modern game engine
Strong English communication skills with a focus on positive cross discipline teamwork
Able to communicate technical information to non-technical staff
A team player mentality, recognising the importance and value of colleagues
