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As a Senior Rendering Engineer, you will collaborate with Content and Tech Art teams to deliver cutting-edge visuals and optimize rendering performance. Your responsibilities include designing and implementing rendering systems, improving existing ones, and ensuring they operate within budget. You will also maintain and extend proprietary engine systems, empower content creation, and ensure scalability across all supported platforms.

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<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Description</h3><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Playground Games is looking for a Senior Rendering Engineer to join our Fable team on a permanent basis.</p><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">About us:</h3><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.</p><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">About the role:</h3><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">As Senior Rendering Engineer, you will be working with the Content and Tech Art teams to deliver cutting edge visuals and great rendering performance. You will design and implement rendering systems according to requirements, improve existing systems and optimise them to ensure they are within budget.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Our ideal candidate is an expert Rendering Engineer who is passionate about their craft, skilled in AAA rendering techniques and performance optimisation on console and PC and has the track record to prove it.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">This is a permanent role, based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa.</p><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">What you’ll do:</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Design and implement state of the art rendering systems and techniques in our custom, proprietary engine.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Maintain and extend existing rendering systems.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Empower the Content teams to create high quality content.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Ensure that rendering systems scale and perform well on all supported platforms.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">What you’ll bring:</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">At least 3 years of experience, with demonstrable work on at least 1 published title (ideally AAA on console).</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong C++ and software architecture skills</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Good knowledge of state-of-the-art rendering techniques and performance optimization on console</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Excellent communication skills and an eye for detail</li><li class="leading-relaxed">A genuine passion for video games.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">A portfolio demonstrating high-quality rendering work is a plus. This portfolio can be submitted as a link to a portfolio website or added as an attachment along with your CV</li></ul><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">This is a fantastic opportunity to make world-class games with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">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.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">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.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">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.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com.</p>

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