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Principal R&D Engineer - Sledgehammer Games

Sledgehammer Games, developer of numerous award-winning games, including Call of Duty: WWII, Advanced Warfare, and Modern Warfare 3 is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with a rendering technical emphasis. We are actively recruiting engineering talent to work on research and development. This is a great opportunity to work with a passionate engineering team and help shape cutting-edge industry technology.

Your Orders And Directives:

• Develop, design, modify, optimize and debug rendering pipeline and engine systems
• Deploy, evaluate performance and test software on Xbox One/PS4/Windows platforms
• Communicate features and collaborate with engineering, design, animation and art teams
• Participate in the design, performance and code review process
• Contribute to design and roadmap of industry-leading AAA engine

The Medals And Honors You Must Have Earned:

• Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science, Engineering, or Math-related field
• 10+ years of experience working with rendering, animation and/or other related technologies
• Passion for character rendering and/or animation
• Strong math skills
• Knowledge of CPU, GPU and memory architectures
• Experience writing Compute, pixel and/or vertex shaders
• Understanding of a modern 3D graphics API (OpenGL, Vulkan, Direct3D, or console equivalent)
• Familiarity using modern GPU/CPU performance analysis tools
• Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented programming
• Strong background in C/C++
• Solid debugging skills including ability to debug at an assembly-level when necessary
• Good communicator that enjoys collaboration with other programmers, artists and designers
• Passion for code and data optimization
• Creative, motivated, focused, passionate, results-oriented
• Demonstrated ability to write efficient, clean, readable, portable, and reliable code

What you should know to get double XP!

• Experience with linear blend and/or dual quaternion skinnin
• Understanding of animation systems, including state machines, blend trees, low-level playback
• Familiarity with animation techniques like pose-space deformations and blend shapes
• Experience with physics-based ragdolls and IK systems
• Background with parallel programming and multi-threaded renderers