Senior Gameplay Engineer - Optimization

NxT Level

Senior Gameplay Engineer - Optimization

San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Our client is an award winning studio that has shipped multiple online services games. They're currently looking for a Senior Engineer to help support the development of their current game build in Unreal Engine 5. We are looking for an engineer that specializes in optimization performance in Unreal. 

    What are the core responsibilities?

      • Maintain and improve our cell shader
      • Explore improvements to our lighting model
      • Profile and Optimize runtime performance on the CPU and GPU for both client and server and memory use.
      • Educate other team members on best practices
      • Work closely with other engineers and technical artists on optimization

    What are the minimum requirements? 

      • C++ expertise
      • HLSL or GLSL expertise
      • Experience in Unreal Engine 4 or 5
      • Write clean, efficient, reliable, and reusable code
      • Proactive and detail oriented
      • Excellent communication skills with a variety of audiences
      • Worked on one or more shipped games

    What will earn you brownie points? 

      • Experience on one or more shipped games
      • Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
      • Experience working on a live service game post-launch
      • Experience working on cross platform play and progression


  • Compensation
    $120,000-$160,000 per year