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 We are looking for a Principal Graphics Engineer to help drive visual fidelity and performance across our projects. This role is ideal for someone with deep Unreal Engine experience, strong C++ skills, and a passion for pushing the boundaries of real-time rendering.You’ll work closely with our art, design, and engineering teams to optimise performance across platforms, and build tools that empower artists to bring worlds to life.What you'll be doing<ul>
<li>Design, implement, and optimise advanced rendering features, shaders, lighting models, and post-processing effects in Unreal Engine</li>
<li>Translate artistic vision into performant and scalable technical solutions across platforms</li>
<li>Profile and optimise rendering systems to achieve smooth frame rates and visual consistency</li>
<li>Provide technical leadership in Unreal Engine graphics architecture, workflows, and best practices</li>
<li>Develop and maintain tools and pipelines that improve content creation and iteration speed</li>
<li>Mentor and support other engineers to raise technical standards across the team</li>
<li>Collaborate cross-functionally with design, production, and art to ensure development is cohesive and efficient</li>
</ul>What we need from you<ul>
<li>5+ years of experience in graphics or rendering engineering, ideally within Unreal Engine (UE4 or UE5)</li>
<li>Expert-level C++ skills with a strong understanding of real-time rendering pipelines</li>
<li>Deep knowledge of Unreal’s rendering architecture and material/shader systems</li>
<li>Experience optimising rendering performance for games across multiple platforms</li>
<li>Strong problem-solving skills with a keen eye for visual quality and performance trade-offs</li>
<li>A track record of contributing to the visual success of shipped titles</li>
<li>If you're passionate about building world-class visuals and want to play a key role in the technical direction of our projects, we’d love to hear from you.</li>
</ul>The&nbsp;Game You'll be working on Wardogs, an all-out-warfare multiplayer first person shooter. That means infantry combat, tank warfare, jet dog fighting, and artillery barrages.&nbsp;We play test the game twice a week, so you'll have lots of time to get stuck in and really be a part of the game you're creating. 
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The Facilities Assistant will support both studios in operational facilities, ensuring a tidy, organized, and smoothly functioning workspace. Responsibilities include desk moves, room setups, event support, restocking vending machines and supplies, cleaning, waste disposal, health and safety checks, and assisting with basic maintenance tasks.  Excellent communication, customer service, problem-solving, and teamwork skills are essential.  Proactiveness, a positive attitude, and the ability to prioritize tasks are highly valued. The role requires experience maintaining accurate records and using Microsoft Office Suite, along with a full, clean driving license. An IOSH Working Safely Certificate is preferred.

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 <h2>We are looking for a proactive and enthusiastic Facilities Assistant to join our growing Facilities team at Playground Games. &nbsp;</h2><h3>About us:</h3>As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun.<h3>About the Role:</h3>You will support both studios with the operational Facilities across the business. This will include keeping our studios tidy, organised and operating smoothly. We are an award winning Xbox Games Studio and its important to us that our studios and working environment reflect this.&nbsp;You will assist with desk moves, room set ups, support events, restock vending machines, replenish stock and cupboards, keep rooms clean and tidy, empty bins and ensure waste is disposed of correctly, complete regular health and safety and maintenance checks, and assist others within the Facilities team with basic maintenance tasks.&nbsp;This position requires a warm, friendly and dynamic individual with the ability to multi task and always deliver exceptional service.&nbsp;This a full time, studio based, contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. &nbsp;&nbsp;<h3>What you’ll do:&nbsp;</h3><ul><li>Excellent communication skills at all levels&nbsp;</li><li>Willing to learn and take on a wide variety of tasks&nbsp;</li><li>Excellent customer service skills – at PG our staff are our customers&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to work on own initiative&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to respond quickly to problems and be flexible about prioritising your day&nbsp;</li><li>A proactive and enthusiastic attitude toward work&nbsp;</li><li>A team player mind-set and can do approach with willingness to “muck in” when required&nbsp;</li><li>Basic awareness of health and safety in workplace&nbsp;</li><li>Experience of maintaining timely and accurate records &nbsp;</li><li>Experience using Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, Teams and Word&nbsp;</li><li>A Full clean driving licence&nbsp;</li></ul><h3>What you’ll bring:&nbsp;</h3><ul><li>Experience in a similar role&nbsp;</li><li>IOSH Working Safely Certificate&nbsp;</li><li>Experience of working in the games industry would be beneficial but not essential. &nbsp;</li></ul><div>&nbsp;Playground Games is an equal opportunities studio and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply.&nbsp;</div>This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.&nbsp;Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.&nbsp;We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.&nbsp;At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.&nbsp;If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on <a href="mailto:recruitment@playground-games.com">recruitment@playground-games.com</a>&nbsp;
 
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