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Responsibilities:

Designs and develops game engine technology based on direction or feedback from product and art director leadership
Design and implement efficient low-level systems to support higher-level pipelines
Develop familiarity with mobile and desktop details of our cross-platform ecosystem, their capabilities and performance bottlenecks
Contribute innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of delivering premium graphics in a real-time engine context
Optimizing both memory and performance in systems that have to scale from high-end to mobile systems
Supervisory Responsibilities
Directly supervises cross-platform programming team. Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
Responsibilities include interviewing and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; resolving problems together with department leadership

Qualifications

Advanced degree in Software Engineering or Computer science or equivalent work experience
7+ years of professional experience in real-time game development leadership
Extensive experience with C/C++ and low-level graphics APIs
Shipped at least one real-time 3D, graphically-intensive, high-frame-rate title on a portable game system (e.g. Nintendo DS/3DS/Switch, Sony PSP, mobile VR), previous-gen console (e.g. PS1/PS2/PS3, Xbox/Xbox 360, N64/GameCube/Wii), or other constrained embedded device (e.g. PowerVR arcade board)
Strong knowledge of graphics pipelines and rendering techniques
Cross platform development experience (iOS, Android and Web)
Experience in a broad range of engineering areas on shipping games or realtime visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code and deep optimization
Experience developing in a large codebase at a fast pace, making trade-offs between usability, performance, and power
Solid working knowledge of all technical aspects of game development facilitating the leadership of programmers outside of core expertise
Proficiency with linear algebra and general 3D mathematics

Bonus

Experience with Data Oriented Design (especially Unity ECS/DOTS)
Experience with Houdini
Experience writing and optimizing shaders
Experience integrating with an external/cloud API

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