Senior Engine Programmer

For more than twenty years Criterion Games has entertained millions of players around the world with our award-winning games. Our experienced people have expressed their passion for phenomenal game feel, AAA audio-visual quality, and technical innovation across many beloved franchises including Burnout, Battlefield, Star Wars Battlefront and Need for Speed.

We believe that healthy, engaged teams make great games, so we place enormous value on collaboration, fresh ideas, and unique perspectives. We'd love to hear yours! Crunch doesn't help make a better game. We don't do it. For the sixth year in a row, we are very proud to have been recognised by gamesindustry.biz as one of the best places to work in the UK.

We're looking for an experienced engineer to be part of the Criterion's core systems team. You will report to a Lead Engineer and daily you will work in C++ that will cover our client, dedicated server and content pipeline tools. You will participate in implementation of low-level features in the engine and work with EA central tech team to integrate new ones. This could include memory management, threading, data streaming, game networking, performance profiling and optimization. Your team will be also involved with the automated systems test process and post-launch support of our titles ensuring that the experiences we create are delivered safely to our players.

Responsibilities

• You will become part of the Need for Speed core systems team to help deliver expected level of performance and stability using EA's proprietary technology;
• Work with production and design to gather requirements and translate them into technical designs in collaboration with the team and technical leadership;
• Design and implement new features in the engine for both programmers and content creators;
• Participate in integration of newer versions of EA's proprietary tech and features;
• Collaborate with other programming teams to address stability or performance issues with the engine;
• Perform performance/memory profiling and optimization of a title on different platforms;
• Communicate with EA Central Tech to manage engine development roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in C++ software development
• Experience shipping titles (consoles and PC) as engine programmer;
• Experience with low-level systems development such as memory management, threading, data streaming in real-time applications, 3d graphics, networking;
• Understand hardware and software specifics of modern gaming hardware;
• Proficiency in maintaining large systems;
• Experience with First Party APIs;
• Skills debugging distributed real-time applications;