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Game Engineer #1144
1 year ago
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Contract Length: 12 months, extension possible
Work Location: Work From Home but candidate must be local to the Greater Seattle Area
Work Hours: Fulltime
Our client, the studio behind a AAA Sci-Fi FPS game franchise, is looking for a Gameplay Engineer to join their team to help drive the next generation of gameplay systems and tools for their content creators. Systems you will be improving include:
- Low level run-time physics-based systems like vehicle simulation, character control, constraint systems
- Gameplay networking.
Responsibilities:
- Develop vehicle systems and behaviors in cooperation with artists and designers.
- Create well architected systems that encourage rapid iteration.
- Debug and optimize key areas of code (not just your own).
- Aid in the architecture and implementation of gameplay networking.
Keywords provides a competitive compensation package, good benefits and a casual, fun, productive and supportive working environment. We empower people to perform to the best of their ability with our “can do” attitude. We appreciate and embrace flexibility and learn at every opportunity to grow ourselves through experience, training and tackling new challenges. This is what makes us Keywordians .
Requirements
- Experience shipping games as a gameplay or networking engineer
- Experience shipping AAA current or last generation console games (e.g. PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, Nintendo Switch)
- 2+ years of professional C++ experience
- Strong skills in math and physics
- Strong debugging and optimization skills
- Strong knowledge of gameplay as well as game networking algorithms
- Strong cross-team communication skills
- Ability to work well with creatives (e.g. artists and game designers)
Bonus:
- Extensive development in a multi-player environment
- Experience developing gameplay behaviors for action games
- Experience working with vehicle or physics simulations
Benefits
At KeyWords we provide all our contingent workforce with:
- Paid Time Off (including sick days and holidays)
- 401k (3% matching)
- Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
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