Ubisoft

Senior 3D Programmer

Ubisoft • $90K — $120K *
Montreal, QC H1A 0A1In-Person
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • Minimum 7 years of general programming experience, preferably in the video game industry.
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate with diverse teams.
  • Proficiency in HLSL and DirectX.
  • Expertise in C++ programming.
  • Experience in performance optimization for video game consoles.
  • Passion for mathematics, with interests in algebra, geometry, and calculus.
  • Creativity and eagerness for innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain core engine foundations in Unreal Engine focusing on stability and performance.
  • Lead optimization efforts for rendering and frame performance, including diagnostics and pipeline improvements.
  • Own end-to-end technical solutions from design to implementation and maintenance.
  • Collaborate daily with multiple teams to enhance engine-level decisions.
  • Embrace a hands-on role by writing code, debugging, and advocating for quality standards.

Benefits

  • Work within a small, empowered team focused on innovative multiplayer experiences.
  • Hands-on involvement in game engine development in Unreal Engine.
  • Opportunity to collaborate closely with diverse artistic and technical teams.
  • Focus on continuous quality improvement through best practices.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We're a small, empowered team building an ambitious multiplayer experience, developed in Unreal Engine. We're looking for hands-on developers with a strong execution mindset, ownership, and pride in building something real-together.

What you'll do
  • Design, implement, and maintain core engine foundations in Unreal Engine, with a strong focus on stability, performance, and scalability, supporting an always-playable, delivery-driven production environment.
  • Lead rendering and frame performance initiatives, including GPU/CPU diagnostics and optimization, budget definition, pipeline improvements, and the implementation of safeguards (profiling, regression detection, benchmarking) to ensure continuous quality.
  • Own technical solutions end-to-end: design, implementation, integration, review, and hardening, with a production and live-operations mindset focused on stability, performance, security, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate daily with Gameplay, Tech Art, VFX, Level Art, Tools, and Build teams to ensure engine-level decisions (rendering, streaming, LODs) enable rapid delivery without compromising performance, while keeping Unreal Engine workflows efficient for a small, autonomous team.
  • Embody a hands-on senior engineering role by writing code daily, debugging deep within the engine, challenging technical approaches, documenting the rationale behind decisions, and continuously raising the team's quality standards through best practices, design patterns, and effective technical debt management.


Qualifications

What You Bring
  • An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
  • A minimum of 7 years' experience in general programming, ideally in the video-game industry
  • A proficiency to communicate with all disciplines and to support and elevate the team in terms of visuals and performance
  • Experience with HLSL, DirectX
  • Proficiency in C++
  • Experience developing on video-game consoles and in performance optimization for consoles
  • You are a Philomath (a.k.a. a lover of maths - algebra, geometry, calculus, the whole set)
  • You are creative and thirsty for innovation


Nice to Have
  • Experience as part of a team that has shipped a video game


Additional Information

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA is a French video game company headquartered in Montreuil with several development studios across the world. It publishes games for several video game franchises, including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Prince of Persia, Rayman, Raving Rabbids, and Tom Clancy's. The company's largest development studio is Ubisoft Montreal in Canada, which is responsible for the development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Watch Dogs, among others. Ubisoft is the fourth largest publicly traded game company in the Americas and Europe in terms of revenue and market capitalization, after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive. The company has over 18,000 employees and has development studios in 35 countries. Ubisoft's revenue for the fiscal year 2020-2021 was ?2.2 billion.
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Size
20,665 employees
Industry
Media
Founded
1986
NASDAQ
UBSFY
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