Systems Engineer

Job Description

Your Platform

Your Mission

Activision Publishing is currently looking for a Systems Engineer to join the Mobile Team to work on a new mobile title. We are looking for an individual who has a passion and proven track record for building and launching great games.

As a Systems Engineer you will architect, refactor, optimize and maintain a variety of game, tool and low-level systems specifically for Mobile platforms including: pipelines, tools, memory management, performance, build process and more. You will be a direct part of a core team but collaborate with a global team.

Your goals and responsibilities include ensuring Engine Systems play well on Mobile platforms, some of which will be adapted from other platforms and some which will be architected and implemented from scratch by you with guidance from the Technical Director. Qualified candidates need to be self-starters, able to operate in a highly dynamic environment.

You report in to a (Technical) Development Director and will be guided by the Technical Director, who you will work with to ensure implementation aligns with strategy and priorities.

Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, debug, optimize and refine game and engine systems, features, pipelines, tools and infrastructure as needed
• Perform research to acquire new knowledge necessary to perform assigned tasks and maintain a process of technological evolution with a Mobile platform focus
• Communicate with other departments within the team and Activision global community to improve existing tools and determine new solutions

Player Profile

Requirements:
• 3+ years programming experience
• Contributed extensively to the development of one or more game projects, PC, Console or Mobile
• Demonstrated proficiency in and knowledge of C/C++, data structures, performance, and multi-threaded programming techniques
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, readable, portable, reliable, and optimized code on multi-platform projects
• Experience working on multi-platform software projects
• Ability to research, analyze and optimize code to meet performance requirements
• Excellent communications skills

Extra Points:
• Some familiarity with current Mobile rendering APIs and architecture
• Knowledge of computer game technologies including: AI programming, physics, 3D programming, animation, collision detection, network programming
• Familiarity with multi-threading and optimization
• Experience of working in cross- or remote-studio environment

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r74789-3-135-190-232-42 in your application.