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Graphics Engineer

About the Team

The high performance Graphics Engineering team at Wildlife offers standards of excellence and agility in everything it does. We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and our culture. We aspire to build incredible visual experiences for our players and constantly challenge our limits. Our cutting-edge technology inspires and enables our game designers, artists, and engineers to bring their ideas to life.

We build a bridge between real-time computer graphics technology and creativity! We work with research, development, and implementation of high-performance rendering solutions, game systems, and tools.

About the Role

Graphics engineers participate directly in game development, being involved in the design and implementation of specific graphics features that support our artistic vision. Also, they maintain and optimize the graphics stack so as to guarantee good performance and usability for technical artists and game designers.When not assigned to a particular game, you will work in challenging research tasks such as improving our tools, rendering technologies, and computer graphics systems.

Who you are

• Self-driven. You have a go-getter attitude, exceptional organizational skills, integrity and great follow through on tasks;
• Passionate about technology. You are thirsty for knowledge and the application of cutting edge real-time Computer Graphics technologies to achieve incredible results with better cost benefit;
• Skillful Analytical. High analytical capacity and excellent logical reasoning;
• Innovative. You don’t be intimidated by obstacles. If there is no answer to a problem, you will rapidly research and find creative and high-performance alternatives. At the same time, you don't reinvent the wheel
• Motivated. You understand the impact of a highly-satisfied, excited team and you are committed about working hard on and solving challenging problems;
• Team player. You're willing to help out wherever needed and see feedback as a valuable gift for your professional growth;
• Player focused. You have empathy with our players and focus on ensuring that they have a stunning graphics experience.

What you'll do

• Design, maintain, and optimize the graphics pipeline of our games;
• Develop frameworks and tools that integrate and facilitate the work between artists and game developers;
• Proactively look for problems in current processes and propose improvements;
• Research new techniques for producing art and visual effects for games;
• Estimate tasks considering their trade-offs and dependencies;
• Participate in a team of Graphic Engineers and Technical Artists, contributing to raise the technical level by actively discussing new ideas, technologies, and production processes;
• Provide support to artists and programmers who will use your systems and tools;
• Document and publish the knowledge produced to the entire company;
• Develop relationships across multiple teams (Art and Game Engineering).

What you'll need

• Expertise in real-time Computer Graphics techniques and pipelines;
• Solid knowledge in algorithms complexity analysis, hardware architecture, performance profiling and optimization;
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C# and C / C++;
• Familiarity with any Graphics API;
• Knowledge of shading languages such as C for Graphics (CG), GLSL and HLSL;
• Strong math background (calculus, analytical geometry, numerical calculation);
• Undergraduate’s degree grade knowledge in computer science, physics and/or mathematics (or equivalent professional experience).

Pluses

• Experience with Unity or Unreal game engines;
• Experience programming real-time rendering pipelines, specially in Unity;
• Professional experience developing mobile games (iOS and Android);
• Professional experience working with modern APIs (DX12, Vulkan, Metal);
• Familiarity with agile development processes;
• Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science/Graphics;
• Scientific publication in the area of Computer Graphics.