Senior Game Engineer - Graphics

About the Role

Are you on a mission to create games that bond players together into deeply invested communities? Would you like to work on something comedic with lighthearted and whimsical characters? And are you excited to help push the visual quality, performance, and expressiveness of a rich, innovative game?

As a Senior Game Engineer - Graphics on teamLFG, you will work closely with artists, designers and engineers to build expressive gameplay experiences for a multiplayer game while also driving visual quality, rendering features, workflows, and performance in Unreal Engine 5. Most importantly, you will work with a fun, dedicated, and cross-discipline team devoted to turning a creative dream into a new franchise at PlayStation.

We look for candidates who value joining a mission-focused team with a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences, interests, and viewpoints.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-quality gameplay systems, workflows, and tools in C++ on Unreal 5 with minimal oversight
• Own and evolve rendering systems in Unreal Engine 5, including lighting, materials, particles, post-processing, shadows, and graphics scalability
• Collaborate closely with artists to prototype and implement stylized rendering features, shaders, VFX workflows, post-process effects, camera techniques, and other expressive visual systems
• Optimize rendering performance across CPU, GPU, memory, and platform constraints
• Investigate and fix graphics, rendering, and visual pipeline issues

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in real-time rendering techniques and modern graphics pipelines
• Excellent C++ programming skills
• Experience with Unreal Engine 5 and its rendering framework
• Experience building designer- and artist-facing components and tools
• Ability to work autonomously and drive technical initiatives from concept to completion
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both engineers and artists

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with development on a variety of platforms (PC, console)
• Passion for creating visually expressive and polished player experiences

Benefits

This role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package.