Principal Software Engineer, Graphics

Job Description

For the past 25 years Monolith Productions has been obsessed with delivering a unique gaming experience for our fans. Starting with Blood, our very first title – all the way to our most recent offering, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, we are constantly pushing the envelope to combine innovative gameplay, inventive narratives, cutting edge tech & AI, and stunning visuals. We are challenging ourselves even further to ensure that our next project is going to be our best yet. That's where you come in – for us to achieve that, we need the best and brightest talent the industry has to offer. Help us create our next AAA title.

Your New Role...

Join the Wonder Woman team and help bring an iconic DC Superhero to life!

As a Principal Graphics Software Engineer, you will be at the forefront the graphics and rendering pipelines within our proprietary game engine. If you enjoy driving cutting-edge visuals under the hood, this is the role for you!

Working as a member of the Graphics team, you will work closely with our artists to identify, architect, and build and extend the features we need to have world-class visuals in our new game.

Come work with our highly collaborative team, and help us deliver a superhero experience as epic as Wonder Woman herself!

Your Role Accountabilities...
• Design, author, maintain C++ code that meets all design and art requirements for our rendering pipelines
• Collaborate with technical leadership and other engineers to help establish overall technical design and architecture of our systems
• Collaborate with artists to identify and drive the development of graphics features
• Profile and optimize problems related to load times, memory, and CPU usage

Qualifications & Experience...
• 10+ years of professional experience in C++
• Highly proficient with shader languages and graphics APIs
• Deep understanding of modern rendering techniques, graphics algorithms and hardware
• Experience with graphics debugging and profiling tools such as PIX, Nsight, and RenderDoc
• Strong 3D math skills
• Experience with console and graphics APIs a plus
• Experience as a direct manager of team members (desirable)
• Experience developing first or third person action games a plus
• Experience helping maintain a live software product or game (desirable)

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $111,860.00 - $207,740.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

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