Rendering Engineer

Company Description

About Wizcorp 🦄🇯🇵🎮

Wizcorp is a highly specialized game development studio based in Tokyo and operating 100% remotely. We are a cross-cultural team of passionate individuals working together toward one goal: bringing back magic to game development.

How?

• We get better every day. Our technical abilities should never limit our ideas.
• We question the status quo. We don't accept yesterday's answers to tomorrow's challenges.
• We follow our moral compass. Our values guide our decisions.
• We surround ourselves with people who believe in our mission. Our staff, clients, and partners are all part of the equation.
• We learn and share. We want our successes and failures to contribute to the collective wisdom of our profession.

Wizcorp offers a friendly and honest working environment. Our work is challenging but rewarding, with countless personal and professional growth opportunities.

This position requires you to reside in Japan during your employment with Wizcorp.

Job Description

Wizcorp is looking for Rendering Engineers to work on exciting projects for next-generation consoles. Depending on your background, skills, and experience we’ll find the most suitable role within our teams.

Is this job for me? 👨‍🦰👩‍🦳🧑‍🦲

You have a few years of work experience working with rendering pipelines and have successfully shipped console titles featuring your work. You are comfortable diving into foreign codebases, quickly understanding the architecture, and integrating your work seamlessly. You live and breathe C++ and shader languages (HLSL/GLSL), and you’re not afraid to deep-dive into the GPU architecture itself to make visual and performance improvements.

Sounds like you? Then this job is for you!

Typical day 🎮📆🕹️

You start your day by reviewing code from other engineers and ensuring they meet quality expectations. You will mainly develop rendering systems and graphics utilities for custom proprietary or commercial engines. On some days you might be implementing a new global illumination solution that fits well within the existing codebase, on others you might have to do architectural changes to the rendering pipeline in order to accommodate new visual features in a clean and extensible manner. You may have to work on shader optimization, GPU profiling, memory management for graphics resources, or collaborating with Technical Artists to support their workflows.

The ideal candidate will be able to

• Design, test, and debug own code without assistance from other engineers

• Break down large graphics features into engineering tasks and work with other engineers to complete them

• Decipher and understand complex graphics systems and rendering techniques

• Mentor engineers in rendering development and optimization best practices

• Develop systems with a strong focus on optimization and performance

• Have a deep understanding of modern graphics APIs (e.g., DirectX 12, Vulkan, Metal) and rendering architectures

• Confidently communicate with all members of the company and external client teams

Roles and Responsibilities 🛠️🧪✨

• Estimate own tasks and deliver them in a timely manner

• Write clear, maintainable code that passes review by other senior engineers

• Raise all blockers when they arise to the project lead

• Test and document provided solutions to allow other developers to review and learn

• Implement and uphold software engineering best practices, adhering to both internal standards and specific client coding guidelines.

• Take ownership of large areas of the code base and large complex features

• Take ownership of mission-critical areas of the codebase

• Coordinate with members outside of the engineering team to deliver features in a timely manner

• Determine large feature feasibility and propose solutions

• Provide solid programming expertise to deliver large features and architecture suggestions

• Provide code review analysis that uses all relevant experience to foresee problems with design and implementation

Qualifications

Requirements

🤹 Skillset 🤹

• Ability to write clean, readable, performant code and design the architecture around it

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• Knowledge of existing rendering techniques and lighting models

• Focus on performance analysis and GPU profiling, with a strong familiarity with tools such as PIX or RenderDoc

• Strong 3D math skills

• Willingness to work as part of a team and contribute to technical discussions

• Eager to both provide and receive constructive feedback for continual growth

• High adaptability to jump between different projects, tech stacks, and proprietary client engines

• Strong software development skills, design theory, and development processes

• Strong personal time management

• Experience in one or multiple of the following:

  • Creation of custom graphics engines

  • Feature implementation on existing rendering pipelines

  • Implementation of graphics specific profiling/debugging tools

  • Development targeting PlayStation, Microsoft or Nintendo platforms

  • Familiarity with other target platforms, such as PC or mobile

⭐ Experience ⭐

• University degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline; or relevant professional experience

• 3+ years professional software engineering experience

• 2+ years professional experience developing rendering pipelines or custom graphics engines

• Solid software engineering abilities (good code hygiene, familiarity with various coding patterns, etc.)

• Strong experience with C++ and proficiency in shader programming (HLSL, GLSL)

• Comfortable with source code management systems (Git, SVN, Perforce, etc.)

• English proficiency (ability to read, write, and discuss technical matters)

👍 Preferred 👍

• Experience with some of the following languages: C#, Python, shell scripting (Bash, PowerShell, etc.) for graphics tooling

• Experience with other game engines such as Unreal, Unity, proprietary engines, or others

• At least 3 years of experience in the video game industry

• At least conversational Japanese proficiency - JLPT N3 or above 

• Worked on at least 1 released game

Additional Information

📍 Business hours and Location 📍

⏲ Flexibility in time

We all have different creative clocks, and you know yours better than we do.

We will expect you to work 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday with core hours between 11:00 and 16:00 (excluding a 1-hour break). The rest will be up to you.

🌎 Flexibility in location

Wizcorp fully embraces telework, and most of us work from home. Office space is also available for your convenience, and you will have access to meeting rooms and hot desks.

We may require you to work onsite on specific occasions when using highly specialized equipment.

Offices are located at 1 Chome-22-19 Izumi 8~9F, Suginami City, Tokyo 168-0063 (🗺 map)

You must reside in Japan during your employment at Wizcorp. We offer legal support for visa applications. Depending on your situation, we may allow you to work outside of Japan during your probation period.

👷 Employment Type 👷‍♀️

Permanent
※Depending on experience, level, and project or business requirements, the role may initially be offered on a fixed-term contract, with the potential to transition to a permanent position.

💴 Salary 💴

The following tiers are currently in application for this position:

• RE1: 400~450K/month

• RE2: 450~550K/month

• RE3: 550~600K/month

All new staff members’ initial salary will be based on experience and interview evaluation.

Includes a 6 months probation period. Salary is not affected nor changed during that period.

💹 Raises and bonuses 💹

• You will be reviewed once a year and your salary will be adjusted to match with gained experience and project contributions.
• Pay raises are awarded around March each year, in line with our budget and financial forecasting for the subsequent year.
• We do not offer bonuses.

🈷️ Additional benefits 🈷️

• Monthly allowance for home office equipment and supplies (15,000 JPY/month)
• Private language tutoring (Japanese and/or English)
• Commute fees (however, train passes are not reimbursed)

♨️ Holidays and vacations ♨️

• Weekends and national holidays
• Summer/winter vacation: 5 days per year (paid, applicable after the probation period)
• Annual Paid Leave: 10 days per year (first year, following the probation period)
• Bereavement/funeral leave
• Sick leave: 5 days per year (paid, applicable after the probation period)

🤝 Welfare 🤝

• Social insurance
• Parental leave (learn more here)

Keywords is committed to creating a diverse,  inclusive and supportive working environment. 

Role Information: EN

Studio: Wizcorp

Location: Asia Pacific, Japan

Area of Work: Game Development

Service: Create

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Working Pattern: Remote

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