Rockstar North is currently seeking an experienced programmer to focus on core engine development. Were looking for a highly talented individual with a positive attitude, a passion for games, and a natural ability to communicate with people as effectively as with a computer. You need at least three years commercial games experience and a minimum of one published title on PS3 or Xbox 360 to demonstrate your skills.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop cutting-edge architectures and high performance systems for current and next-gen platforms.
Responsibilities
Work on multiple aspects of engine development: world representation, rendering, graphics, effects, threading and other subsystems.
Design and implement a variety of low and mid-level systems.
Improving engine architecture and evolving an existing codebase.
Diagnose game performance and stability issues, and develop solutions.
Qualifications
Fluency in C++ with strong multi-threaded programming skills.
A minimum of 3 years of experience writing efficient core engine code.
Self-motivated, and willing to pitch in on many areas of development.
Outstanding math skills (linear algebra, trigonometry, matrix/quaternion math).
Able to communicate, and work closely with designers, artists and other coders.
Prior experience working as an engine or generalist programmer on at least one previous game.
Experience with code and data optimization to improve memory consumption and performance.
Experience with multithreaded programming.
Passion for playing video games, and writing engine code.
Skills
Mathematics/computer science degree.
Fluency in assembly and/or SIMD programming.
Experience developing high level graphics systems.
Experience with streaming , open world games.
Experience integrating third-party products.
Additional Information In-depth familiarity of Rockstar products is a massive plus PLEASE APPLY ONLINE ATWWW.ROCKSTARNORTH.COM/JOBS