About the role

Why you would like it: 

• Contribute to building real-time sports graphics watched by millions each week
• Get hands-on with modern rendering tech (Vulkan/DX12) and performance-critical systems
• Join a passionate, Dunedin-based tech team trusted by the world’s biggest sports leagues

The opportunity: 

This is a senior, hands-on graphics engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex problem, working close to the metal. You’ll help build the next generation of real-time graphics systems used in live broadcast environments - where reliability, performance, and quality matter. If you like working across rendering, shaders, video integration, and tools that operators rely on in-the-moment, this one has plenty of depth for you.

Company profile: 

Animation Research Limited (ARL) is world leader in real-time sports broadcast graphics, delivering data-driven storytelling for major sporting events globally. The team is engineering-led, practical, and focused on building tools that work reliably under real production pressure.

The role

• Build and extend applications using a hybrid render engine (Vulkan/DX12) 
• Develop real-time rendering features, shaders, and visualisation tools 
• Help migrate legacy OpenGL components to modern rendering backends 
• Work on video pipelines, calibrated camera feeds, and spatial data workflows 
• Create operational UIs that support live production use-cases 
• Debug, optimise, and improve performance across CPU/GPU workloads 
• Collaborate with technical artists, product, and operations to ship polished outcomes

Your fit

• 5+ years modern C++ experience (C++14/17/20) 
• Experience with Vulkan, DirectX 12 or OpenGL 
• Shader programming (GLSL/HLSL or similar) 
• Solid 3D maths fundamentals (geometry, transforms, rendering pipeline concepts) 
• Comfort working in performance-critical, real-time systems 
• UI experience (ImGui, Qt, wxWidgets, or similar) 
• Clear communicator and natural problem solver

Nice to have

• Experience working on custom engines or toolchains
• Interest in sports graphics, sports data, or real-time storytelling
• Experience optimising GPU/CPU workloads
• Exposure to video processing or camera calibration

 
Ready to keep the backbone of sports tech running?

If this sounds like you hit "Apply now" with your most up to date CV. For mroe information pleae contact Courtney at courtney@potentia.co.nz