Senior Rendering Engineer - Raytracing Specialist
- Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain CRYENGINE’s cutting edge raytracing pipeline.
- Focus on the unique aspects of raytracing in the real-time context and develop effective hybrid solutions between raytracing and rasterization.
- Conduct CPU and GPU performance and memory profiling and develop optimizations.
- Research and implement next-generation rendering features.
- Investigate, propose and implement generic data-flows and structuring suitable for minimum redundancy in the hybrid pipeline.
- Maintain and extend the utility and usability of the raytracing pipeline layer.
- Deal with the different abstractions of API-supported raytracing on a variety of current and future platforms.
- Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Rendering Engineer.
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- Excellent C++ programming skills.
- Thorough experience with aspects of raytracing (acceleration structures, computational complexity, approximations, sampling and filtering theory).
- Secure utilization of math in the areas of mathematical analysis, linear algebra and computational geometry.
- Familiarity with bi-directional distribution functions and their grounding in physical reality.
- Efficient use of multi-threaded programming patterns.
- In-depth understanding of the graphics pipeline and rendering APIs.
- Profound experience with DirectX 12 or Vulkan.
- Solid shader programming skills (GLSL/HLSL).
- Strong GPU and CPU debugging and optimization skills (RenderDoc/PiX/Nsight).
- Team player and self-motivated.
- Desire to learn, share and contribute.
- Solid English skills, good communication skills with strong affinity for transparency.
- Pluses
- Experience with consoles.
- Deep understanding of the architecture and hardware pipelines of recent GPUs.
- Effective utilization of SIMD instruction-sets, and other vector-parallel designs.
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