Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- Games
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop optimization strategies for Unreal Engine 5, analyze performance across platforms, and enhance rendering pipelines and LOD systems to maximize value and gameplay.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We are looking for an Unreal Engine Performance Engineer to ensure our ambitious world runs at peak performance across PC and consoles without compromising gameplay or fidelity.
- As an Unreal Engine Performance Engineer, you will:
- Profile CPU, GPU, memory, and network performance across platforms.
- Optimize Unreal Engine 5 systems (Nanite, Lumen, World Partition, physics, AI, animation, networking).
- Integrate and fine-tune upscaling technologies (DLSS, FSR, TSR) to maximize performance while preserving visual quality.
- Improve rendering pipelines, LOD systems, asset streaming, and lighting setups.
- Collaborate with designers, engineers, and artists to balance fidelity and performance.
- Develop tools and workflows for automated performance testing.
- Support platform-specific optimization for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Deep knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 profiling tools and optimization workflows.
- Skilled in GPU optimization (materials, shaders, lighting, draw calls).
- Vertrautheit mit Upscaling-Lösungen (DLSS, FSR, TSR) und deren Einfluss auf Rendering-Pipelines.
Experience
- 3+ years in game development, with at least 1 shipped title (PC or console).
- Experience with CPU-side optimizations: AI, physics, and networking.
- Bonus: Experience with large-scale survival/RPG or open-world games.
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What we offer
- Opportunity to shape the performance backbone of a groundbreaking AAA title.
- Work with a passionate, highly skilled team supported by leading investors and partners.
- Competitive salary and participation in our employee stock option program (ESOP).
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This is your employer
welevel GmbH
welevel GmbH is an independent game studio based in Munich, specializing in the development of video games. With a team of over 20 people, the company is working on an innovative survival city builder project using cutting-edge technologies like Unreal Engine 5. As a growing startup in the gaming sector, welevel aims to shape the future of RPG and survival games.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Industry
- Other Sectors
Unreal Engine Performance Engineer
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
