Tencent

Tencent

Lead Engine System Engineer

US-California-Irvine

Sponsorship not specified$125k-$347kDetected 20 days ago
C++UnityUnreal EngineLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • About the Hiring Team Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games.
  • This is a safe place to fail, and we don't view failure as a negative, but as the natural result of pushing boundaries and trying new things.
  • Contact us for more information about this exciting opportunity.

Responsibilities

  • Team building and company outings

Requirements

  • Experience bringing multiple large-scale game titles to completion on PC and consoles
  • 7+ years of professional game programming experience
  • Experience using profiling tools to identify CPU performance issues
  • Experience with game console hardware
  • Experience managing direct reports
  • Experience performing in a senior or principal software engineering role or equivalent
  • Ability to work well in a fluid, changing environment as creative challenges evolve
  • Deep knowledge of engine systems involving physics, streaming, audio and other engine systems

Nice to have

  • Experience working either AAA proprietary engines or third party engines like Unreal and Unity
  • Understanding of game asset pipelines

Skills

  • Refactor existing systems and tools to handle large worlds with dynamic content
  • Utilize profiling tools to identify CPU and GPU performance issues
  • Evolve iteratively existing systems into state of the art solutions
  • Author lean, high-performance, maintainable code
  • Cultivate strong cross-disciplinary working relationships based on honesty and transparency among various departments within the studio

Compensation

  • The expected base pay range for this position in the location(s) listed above is $124,800.00 to $347,200.00 per year.

Benefits

  • Just some of the benefits of working with us here at our newly built studio in Irvine, CA.
  • Monthly Cell phone bill reimbursement
  • Financial wellness sessions
  • Flexible spending account
  • Parental leave for new parents
  • Company paid health insurance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Wellness training
  • Benefits may also be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Equal opportunity

  • As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community.

This listing is sourced directly from Tencent's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.