Senior Game Client Software Engineer - The Sims

Job Description

Maxis

What You Will Do

Reporting to a development Manager, as a Senior Client Software Engineer on The Sims, you will work on our client systems within the game. The work will range from production development to performance optimization and code features hardening and improvements. Most of the work will be done in C++.

Job Responsibilities:
• Architect client features and systems in C++.
• Extend existing client systems and create new ones.
• Work with designers, producers, content creators and other engineers to develop game features.
• Write technical design documents detailing software requirements.
• Write cross-platform code with performance and memory usage in mind.
• Debug code to document and fix bugs.
• Provide a mentorship to other engineers.
• Solve to support active live service.

Technical Requirements:

Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered.
• Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• 8 or more years experience in a hands-on development role.
• Working knowledge of modern C++.
• Experience architecting and implementing complex game subsystems.
• Working knowledge of graphics libraries (DirectX/OpenGL/Metal).
• An understanding of geometry, linear algebra, calculus, and physics as they pertain to transformations and motions in 3D space.
• Desktop development experience.
• Experience with Windows platform and development tools (e.g. Visual Studio or other programming IDEs).
• Experience guiding other engineers through the development process.
• Skills debugging complex applications.
• Experience optimizing existing game code to be more performant.
• Communicate with the ability to cater the messaging based on audience and across departments.

Pluses:
• Mac development experience.
• Xbox One/PS4 development experience.
• Knowledge of Python, C#, or familiarity with WPF.
• Experience working in large data-driven games or applications.
• Experience developing for large-scale live products.
• Experience using code static analysis tools, automated testing, unit testing, and configuration management processes.
• Experience with performance tools and profilers (e.g. Intel VTune, Razor GPU/CPU Profiler or other profilers)
• Familiarity with The Sims games on PC/Mac/consoles.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g45x6q-3-142-53-68-42 in your application.