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.
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