Remote Systems Engineer

Summary

Join our team at Escape Velocity as a Systems Engineer and help make our AAA game run across all target hardware platforms. Your mission will be to develop and maintain game supporting systems, tools, and platform-specific features.

Requirements

• A keen analytical mind, with strong problem-solving skills
• Strong C++ skills and programming experience to design & implement game engine systems and tools
• Strong understanding of 1st party or mobile hardware platforms engineering concerns such as release and approval cycles, OS upgrades, UI and control schemes, API integration and platform-specific performance concerns
• Experience with profiling & optimizations
• Experience shipping live Games-as-a-Service is a plus
• Experience using Unreal Engine 5 is a plus
• Experience developing Android / iOS 3D mobile games is a plus
• Experience with 3D graphics and rendering issues is a plus
• Well versed in games and able to articulate what is strong/weak about the design of existing games
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated, strong work ethic, and able to work independently
• Creativity in problem-solving and the ability to think outside of the established solutions
• Keen interest in games

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain game supporting systems, tools, and platform specific features for our game
• Ensuring high performance, functionality, and compatibility
• Explore and implement innovative solutions and make sure systems run across all hardware platforms, optimizing the systems for the platforms users while maintaining gameplay quality
• Develop studio-wide standards and practices to ensure our game developers (engineers, artists, sound designers, animators, etc) hit our quality bar
• Contribute to the design of our gameplay systems
• Collaborate with other internal departments (art, design, audio, QA, etc.)
• Document software and features for internal and external teams
• Participate in the code review process