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Lead Combat Engineer
3 years ago
Welcome to Striking Distance Studios!
Striking Distance Studios continues to grow. We are looking for talented developers with experience working on large-scale, live service games to join us in our San Ramon studio. (Remote work maybe possible in select states.)
What we need:
Striking Distance Studios is looking for a Lead Gameplay Engineer (Combat) to work in a cooperative, cross-disciplinary team environment to implement combat game features and systems within our game engine.
Responsibilities:
- Work cohesively with a team of programmers, artists, and designers to design, prototype, and implement gameplay combat features.
- Lead a small team of Combat Engineers to create best in class combat gameplay.
- Build and maintain a variety of robust, flexible, and well-architected systems, including controls, abilities, AI, and RPG systems.
- Work with Design to create strong Multiplayer Combat systems.
- Research coding techniques and algorithms in order to keep current on technological developments and advancements in the game industry
- Communicate accurate status updates to your team leads, producers, and QA regarding tasks/features you are responsible for.
- Delve into code written by other engineers and take ownership of existing systems as needed.
- Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly performant code
- Foster a culture of open, honest, and respectful communication across all disciplines
Qualifications:
- Expertise with UE4, particularly with gameplay combat related systems
- Experience shipping games on consoles and PC
- At least 5 years of games industry experience and preferably 3 years or more in a similar role.
- Shipped at least 1 Multiplayer console game as a Multiplayer Gameplay engineer.
- Excellent communication skills: ideally, you are fluent in “artist” and “designer” speak
- Strong 3D math skills and low-level engine experience
- Fluent in C/C++
- Experience leading a small team preferred
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or relevant work experience
- Full professional proficiency in English
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