Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom Hybrid Employment

Double Eleven is hiring a Principal Graphics Programmer

Requirements

  • Proficient in multi-platform rendering, with a deep understanding of transitioning techniques between console and PC APIs (e.g., PS5/XSX → DX12/Vulkan/Metal).
  • Expert in C++ and GPU programming, including Shader Model 6, HLSL/GLSL, bindless rendering, and GPU compute pipelines.
  • Strong background in diagnosing and resolving CPU/GPU bottlenecks using tools like PIX, RenderDoc, NVIDIA NSight, AMD Radeon GPU Profiler, GPUView, VTune, etc.
  • Ability to design and explain modern rendering techniques, such as PBR workflows, ray tracing structures (BVH), real-time GI, SSGI/SSAO, TAA/Upsampling to engineers, artists, and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Proven experience integrating modern graphics technologies, such as advanced upscaling (DLSS/FSR/XeSS), denoisers, RTGI, temporal reconstruction, or vendor-specific SDKs.
  • Experience working with content creators using common DCCs, ensuring assets meet performance and technical requirements.
  • Strong mentorship skills, capable of enhancing the capabilities of a rendering team and guiding architectural decisions.
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of driving technical decisions and presenting graphics strategies to directors, producers, clients, and external partners.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours to maintain a healthy work/life balance.
  • Regular events, parties, and hobby-based clubs.
  • 28 days of annual leave (20 days annual leave + 8 days bank holiday).
  • 1 day of leave for your birthday and 1 day of leave if you’re moving house.
  • Up to 10 days of discretionary annual leave during the end-of-year break.
  • State-of-the-art studio facilities including a market hall, gym access, and an auditorium.
  • Subsidized market hall with daily prepared meals.
  • Free breakfast options, juice, hot drinks, and fruit.
  • Employee referral bonus (up to £2000).
  • Electric Car Scheme.
  • Cycle to Work scheme.
  • Free game codes, game swag, and merchandise.
  • Family-friendly leave available.
  • Christmas Saving Scheme.
  • Free parking.
  • Best-in-class tools and workflows to focus on creativity.
  • Award schemes to recognize contributions.
  • Annual Profit Share.
  • Length of Service Annual High Performer Award.
  • Professional development and wellbeing support.
  • Vitality Private Healthcare, discounts, and rewards for employees and their families (upon successful completion of the 6-month probationary period).
  • Access to mental health and wellbeing support via Plumm (includes 4 free video therapy sessions per month for both the employee and up to 3 family members aged 18+), unlimited text therapy, courses, meditations.
  • A personalised development plan with dedicated support tailored to your growth and goals.
  • Access to an accredited Academy providing professional qualifications (and access to 500 UK discounts and offers via TOTUM when registered as a student).
  • A dedicated Workplace Experience team responsible for work environments, workplace, and quality of employee life services to help foster collaboration, creativity, and innovation.

Compensation

Not specified

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Over 400 people, award-winning team

Other

  • Start your day any time between 8:00am and 10:00am.
  • 35 working hours per week with a 1-hour lunch break (with the opportunity to flex down to 30 minutes or up to 2 hours).
  • Opportunity to apply for hybrid working (up to 2 days working from home per week).
  • On this occasion, we’re unable to sponsor a visa for this role.

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About company
Double Eleven
Double Eleven is one of the largest independent video games developers and publishers in the UK. Headquartered in Middlesbrough, we employ over 400 people across our UK and Kuala Lumpur studios. We are incredibly proud to partner with some of the world’s leading developers and publishers, including Rockstar Games, Obsidian Entertainment, Mojang, Bethesda Game Studios and Facepunch. As a global games company, we've collaborated to create new worlds in The Outer Worlds 2, helped deliver unforgettable experiences for players of Red Dead Redemption, enabled millions to battle in Rust Console Edition and created new adventures in Fallout 76.
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Department Development
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Posted a month ago