Expert Engine Engineer - Treyarch - Vancouver, BC
About The Position
Treyarch, the studio behind the best-selling Call of Duty: Black Ops franchise, is seeking an Expert Engine Engineer to join our Core Engine team. This is an opportunity to help shape the technology that powers our next blockbuster, cutting-edge game title while working alongside some of the best engineering, design, and creative talent in the industry. At Treyarch, Engine Engineers on the Core Engine team focus on the foundational runtime technology that powers the game. This includes performance, memory, streaming, multithreading, platform support, stability, and optimization across supported platforms. This is primarily a game and engine runtime role, not a tools, workflow, or graphics-focused position, though experience in those areas is valuable. This role can be based in either our Vancouver, BC or Playa Vista, CA office and follows an onsite work schedule of four days per week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in game engine, core systems, or runtime development.
- Deep C++ expertise and proven ability to work effectively in a large, established codebase.
- Strong experience designing, debugging, and optimizing core engine or runtime systems.
- Solid understanding of computer architecture, memory systems, CPU performance, data-oriented optimization, and multithreaded programming.
- Excellent debugging, profiling, performance analysis, and optimization skills.
- Experience shipping AAA console and PC titles across multiple platforms.
- Ability to independently research, prioritize, and solve complex technical problems.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering teams.
- Passion for writing clean, efficient, reliable, and maintainable code.
Nice To Haves
- Experience contributing to a proprietary or bespoke internal game engine.
- Experience with runtime memory systems, streaming technology, asset loading, or platform-level systems.
- Experience with low-level systems such as I/O, memory management, job systems, task scheduling, or platform abstraction.
- Strong 3D math and linear algebra skills.
- Experience with game networking, animation systems, physics, build infrastructure, distributed systems, or async programming.
- Graphics programming experience on console or PC, including rendering APIs, GPU architecture, or graphics performance analysis.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers or helping guide technical direction across a team.
- Multiple shipped AAA titles.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, refactor, optimize, and debug core runtime engine systems across a large, established C++ codebase.
- Improve game performance, stability, memory usage, streaming, multithreading, and platform-specific behavior.
- Profile and optimize runtime systems across supported platforms, including PC and consoles.
- Investigate complex bugs, crashes, performance issues, and low-level engine problems.
- Work closely with pipeline, graphics, tools and other engineering teams to deliver robust engine technology.
- Participate in technical design, code reviews, performance reviews, and long-term engine roadmap discussions.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on architecture, debugging, optimization, and best practices.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- Relocation assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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