Senior Engineer, Mobile Games

Job Description

Your Platform

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., and in Canada, England, Ireland and Japan.
Our talented engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while also researching new approaches to solve the needs of the game studios. To learn more about us and our research, please visit https://research.activision.com/.

Your Mission

Activision is seeking a Senior Programmer, Mobile to join the Activision Central Technology group. This position will see you working aside some of the most forward-looking technologists in the industry in order to advance the state of the art in games.

As part of the Central Technology group, you will work in both a research & development as well as an implementation capacity, assisting the studio teams (Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Sledgehammer, etc.) in realizing their goals of solving cutting-edge problems in their titles. You will also have the opportunity to work across business units, interacting with senior talent from both Blizzard and King.

Your work will emphasize new and novel approaches that can be shared amongst the studio teams, but always within a context that delivers technology that solves real problems for those teams rather than novelty for its own sake. You will be expected to embed with the teams while working on these projects, but also do your work in such a way that it can be easily transported in order to maximize impact across the organization.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Research, design, and implement new approaches to solving difficult problems in real-time computer entertainment on mobile devices
• Work closely with our engineers and other platform specialists to maximize quality while minimizing run-time cost given the specific constraints on mobile platforms
• Combine novel technique with ruthless efficiency by learning the specific operation of our mobile hardware targets
• Help to educate staff, mentoring and providing expert guidance in the particular requirements of mobile architectures

Player Profile
• Knowledge of ARM CPU architectures; experience on x64-based consoles a plus
• History of working with real-time performance constraints
• An ability to operate within a large, constantly evolving C++ codebase
• Familiarity with modern systems concepts in a variety of fields, including multi-threading, efficient file I/O, memory management, and thermal throttling
• Experience with modern real-time rendering APIs such as Metal and Vulkan
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.