Tools Lead - Call Of Duty - New Studio

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.

Infinity Ward has opened a brand new studio in Austin, TX. The studio will work on creating new and innovative experiences for Call of Duty® and create state of the art technology to power them. Our studio provides a safe, trusting, and empowering environment to unleash your creativity and help make the extraordinary.

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 - Austin is currently seeking a Lead Tools Engineer who will be responsible for establishing the technical vision and strategy for tools used to create our future games.

The ideal candidate has tools engineering experience in games, film, or a similar field that mixes the technical and creative. We are looking for someone passionate about working with both engineers and content creators. This is an opportunity to join a game development team at the top of the industry and work with the best gaming talent in the world.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Build, debug, enhance, and optimize tools and frameworks
• Set technical direction and long-term planning to ensure our technology is best-in-class
• Provide leadership and best practices to engineers and other departments in the tools you and your team develop.
• Communicate with the users of your team's tools and keep up to date on their needs
• Keep your finger on the pulse of the project and its changing needs
• Mentor the team on both technology and communication
• Coordinate on both schedule and technology with other Activision studios

Player Profile

Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• Experience leading or working in a tools engineering team in games, film, or a similar field
• Experience designing and creating content editors
• Experience optimizing and extending a content build pipeline
• Familiarity with digital content creation tools (Maya, Houdini, etc.)
• Interest in usability and user interface design
• Strong communication skills

''We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.''

Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the US, the standard base pay range for this role is $121,500.00 - $224,880.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the US and is not applicable to locations outside of the US Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r781m8-52-15-63-145-42 in your application.