Senior Software Engineer - Rendering

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Rendering • $222,910 PA - $289,460 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Rendering to join their team. The role involves supporting the largest immersive 3D streaming environment across various platforms including console, desktop, mobile, and VR. Responsibilities include investigating and implementing rendering techniques to enhance graphics, improving game engine performance and stability, collaborating with technical artists and other engineering teams, and taking ownership of projects throughout their lifecycle. The company emphasizes scalability, compatibility, and community in its platform, which is built on an in-house rendering engine supporting multiple GPU APIs. This position offers the opportunity to solve complex rendering challenges and push visual fidelity.
Must have:
  • C++ and shading languages knowledge
  • 3D math and computer graphics algorithms knowledge
  • GPU API knowledge (OpenGL, DirectX, etc.)
  • Reasoning about code performance and memory
  • 3+ years of real-time rendering experience
  • Interest in creative rendering techniques
  • Passion for state-of-the-art rendering research
  • Mobile or console development experience

Job Details

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

Join some of the best Graphics Engineers in the world supporting the largest immersive 3D streaming environment deployed across console, desktop, mobile, and VR.

  • Scalability: Roblox provides a platform that guarantees to the creators that their games will always and automatically run on different devices, with cross-platform play and minimal load times.
  • Compatibility: Roblox games and assets made in the past, are still working today. Rendering has to have an eye to the past, and an eye to the future…
  • Community: Roblox games are made by creators of all experience levels, from professionals who earn their living on the platform to kids who are learning to program using Roblox!

As a Game Rendering Engineer, you will solve difficult challenges, while continuing to build a high-speed, completely dynamic environments connected on all devices.

Many established rendering techniques do not trivially apply to our platform - novel solutions are needed as we push Roblox towards higher targets of visual fidelity. Even the simpler visuals we support on low-power devices are enabled by some creative rendering ideas, often centered around caching, incremental computation and graceful degradation.

All of this is based on an in-house rendering engine built from the ground up, supporting DirectX 9/11, OpenGL, GNM, Metal, and Vulkan GAPI's. We have a powerful need for top-notch, low-level and high-level graphics work.

You Will:

  • Help investigate and implement rendering techniques to make ROBLOX graphics more immersive and expressive
  • Learn about our community and work with technical artists to understand the present and future needs of our creators
  • Help improve the performance and stability of our game engine
  • Work with other engineering and art teams
  • Take ownership of a project throughout its full lifecycle

You Have:

  • Knowledge of C++ and shading languages
  • Knowledge of 3D math and computer graphics related algorithms
  • Knowledge of one or more GPU APIs (OpenGL, DirectX and similar)
  • The ability to reason about code performance and memory consumption
  • 3+ years experience in real-time rendering
  • Interest in creating creative rendering techniques
  • Passion about the state-of-the-art in rendering research
  • Mobile or console development experience

 

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range
$222,910$289,460 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.

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