Chief Technology Officer

Job Description

Founded in 2002, Infinity Ward is the original studio behind the Call of Duty® franchise. The titles developed by Infinity Ward have won more than 200 ''Game of the Year'' awards and 100 ''Editor's Choice'' awards, among many other industry accolades. Some of our previous titles include: Call of Duty®: Ghosts, Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare and most recently, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare.

A critically acclaimed studio, Infinity Ward is proud to have one of the most passionate and talented development teams in the industry. We love to have as much fun as the games we create, and it shows in our relaxed, yet diligent, workplace environment. We believe that making the best games relies on having the best people, so we like to look after ours. We enjoy having fun with top-notch events that everyone gets involved with.

Infinity Ward is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at https://www.infinityward.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/InfinityWard/, and @InfinityWard on Twitter.

Your Mission

Infinity Ward is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to oversee all aspects of technology at our new Austin studio. This person will build and lead an engineering team to create the next generation of technology for the world's premiere FPS franchise. They will inspire the team to maximize our players' enjoyment, and they will be the face of technology for the Austin studio – both internally and to their peers across Activision. They will have full responsibility for all technology developed.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Engineering background in AAA games in the console and PC space.
• Experience in engineering leadership of game development.
• Deep understanding of multiple areas of development, including runtime, tooling, and online services.
• A track record of delivering technology in a shared authoring environment.
• Excellent and persuasive communicator, able to represent the studio in both private and public spheres.
• The capacity to build trust in a large organization with many independent units.
• A desire and ability to mentor and grow a team of software developers.
• An interest in spending some portion of time hands on, building technology directly.
• A love of games.

Player Profile

Pluses:
• Experience growing a game engineering team from scratch.
• Strong knowledge of C++ programming and practices.
• Experience with Lua and Python.
• Excellent debugging and performance analysis skills.
• Experience architecting and debugging threaded systems.
• Strong design sensibilities in UX and/or game design.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjvv70-18-188-175-182-42 in your application.