Software Engineer - Game Recording

General Intuition & Medal • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Medal is the world’s largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and relive their best moments. Every year, our players record billions of clips, each representing a unique, action-packed highlight. We’re building the next generation of gaming communities - social, monetized, and creator-powered. Our mission is to design products that make sharing, discovering, and connecting around gaming moments seamless and fun. We raised a seed round of $133M from General Catalyst and Khosla to discover the next generation of intelligence. We're seeking a Game Recorder Engineer to help build our state-of-the-art recorder. For this role, you will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of a performant game recorder. You will also be contributing to many of our features that require interfacing with game engines and game-specific APIs, such as auto clipping.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience writing scalable and complex software, coding in languages including, but not limited to, C/C++, C#
• Hands-on experience debugging crashes through memory dumps
• Strong understanding of low-level, performance-critical engineering and code profiling
• Deep knowledge of the graphics stack – from hooking into game engines (Unity, Unreal, etc. and graphics APIs all the way down to hardware devices
• Experience with reverse-engineering and working with (and even around) anti-cheats

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with large-scale video data

Responsibilities

• Design and implement performant game recording systems that capture gameplay efficiently
• Optimize performance-critical code for high-throughput data capture
• Interface with game engines and APIs to extract relevant game-specific data
• Investigate various low-level bugs involving input devices, hooking, and more

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Wellness and fitness perks including a Wellhub membership and mental health resources
• Paid parental leave, fertility and maternal health benefits
• Generous PTO policy
• Daily meals and commuter benefits at our NYC HQ in Flatiron
• Learning and development stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed