Worldmodeldata
Senior Software Engineer - Game Engine and Data Pipeline
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Remote (UK / US) • Full-Time
About Us
Worldmodeldata is building the trusted data backbone for the next generation of AI: World models and embodied AI. We extract millions of multi-modal, action-conditioned trajectories from video games — safe and controlled environments where every interaction is captured — and deliver them as training-ready datasets for the next generation of AI: world models and embodied AI. We are advised strategically by our senior science advisor prof. Yann LeCun, and are a lean, high-trust, well-funded team operating at high speed.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in game engine internals, real-time graphics pipelines, and systems-level programming. This is a technically demanding role that sits at the intersection of low-level systems development and game technology. You will work alongside a small, highly capable team and be expected to own and drive significant technical decisions independently. The work spans the full path from a running game to a published dataset — capture, tooling, packaging, and pipeline.
Skills & Experience
Core Engineering
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong fundamentals
- Expert-level C++ and C# proficiency; ability to write clean, performant, production-grade code
- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and engineering best practices
- Comfortable leading technical projects end to end with minimal supervision
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Game Engine & Graphics
- Deep knowledge of Unreal Engine internals; familiarity with other major engines (Unity, Godot, id Tech, or similar)
- Strong understanding of real-time rendering pipelines, including deferred rendering, G-buffer composition, depth buffers, and post-processing stages
- Proficiency with graphics APIs — Direct3D (DX11/DX12), Vulkan, or OpenGL
- Understanding of camera systems, scene geometry, object transforms, velocity buffers, and how engines represent and manage scene state at runtime
Systems & Low-Level Programming
- Experience with binary analysis, memory inspection, or working with compiled game binaries and runtime internals
- Familiarity with hooking, instrumentation, or interception techniques at the process or graphics API level
- Understanding of how data flows from game state through to GPU execution
- Knowledge of how to read, extract, and work with structured data from game processes at runtime
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Data & Performance Awareness
- Solid understanding of how games manage and stream data — assets, textures, scene graphs, spatial data structures
- Awareness of GPU memory management, bandwidth constraints, and the performance implications of data access patterns
- Ability to reason about latency and throughput when designing data capture or processing systems
What We're Looking For
- A strong engineering instinct — you care deeply about how things are built, not just that they work
- Curiosity and resourcefulness when working in underdocumented or constrained environments
- Ability to translate ambiguous technical problems into concrete, well-scoped engineering work
- Comfortable working across both research-oriented exploration and production-quality delivery
Nice to Have
- Machine learning and computer vision exposure
- Familiarity with shader programming (HLSL, GLSL)
- Prior experience in game development, game tooling, or the game modding community
- Exposure to video encoding pipelines or frame capture workflows
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