Lead Engine Systems Engineer - Unannounced Game

Canteen Vending • Irvine, CA

32d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. Through unparalleled creativity and storytelling, we create immersive universes and iconic characters that are beloved across platforms, borders, backgrounds, and generations - only made possible by building a work environment that nurtures the artistry of game development and unleashes the aspirations of our people. We are seeking a Lead Engine Systems Engineer to oversee core engine development for our game. As the lead of the engine systems team, you will inspire and align the team around a technical vision that enables best-in-class gameplay, art, and audio experiences across multiple hardware platforms. By directly managing a team of engineers and collaborating with project leadership, you will help define strategic initiatives and break down clear and achievable goals for the engine team aligned with the project goals. When particularly hard problems arise, you'll draw upon the team's collective creativity to define and execute upon a technical vision that meets the project's needs. This role is a full-time, hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in game development engineering or a combination of applicable training and experience.
• Experience using the Unreal engine (both C++ and Blueprint).
• Experience tuning the various engine systems within the Unreal engine to run efficiently on PC's and modern consoles.
• Previous leadership experience including at least one shipped game title.
• Multithreading, performance analysis, and code optimization.
• The ability to author, debug, and optimize production-grade C++ code.
• The capacity to make frequent, readable, and well-tested code commits.
• The ability to communicate and articulate vision, ideas, and learnings from others, and to give meaningful feedback.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Experience mentoring others in the areas of expertise and growing engineers.
• Experience working closely in multi-disciplinary teams with people of diverse mindsets.
• Experience analyzing game features, systems, and content for performance and optimizing a game to release quality.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in creating technologies to enable large-scale AAA-game development productions to meet performance, scope and timeline requirements.
• Computer science, mathematics, physics, or related degree(s).
• Experience making games with large, open worlds.
• Comfortable working in a large codebase.
• Experience developing online multiplayer games and features

Responsibilities

• Manage, evaluate, and mentor the engineering staff of the engine core team.
• Act as the primary point of contact for required engine functionality, collaborating with multi-disciplinary stakeholders and with project leadership to define and execute project requirements.
• Partner with the production staff and the rest of the leadership team for milestone planning and tracking development progress.
• Author and maintain technical design documents that outline key project architectural decisions, features, milestones, and technical risks.
• Provide engine-based guidance and define best practices that empower designers, artists, and gameplay engineers to deliver the vision of the game and ensure we delight and entertain our players.
• Partner in driving processes and tooling necessary to ensure the game runs smoothly and efficiently across multiple hardware platforms of varying capabilities.

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
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees