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Sr. Staff Software Engineer – Game Engine Development – PC Compute – Software Gaming Engineering

Sr. Staff Software Engineer – Game Engine Development – PC Compute – Software Gaming Engineering

CompanyQualcomm
LocationSan Diego, CA, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional experience
  • Comfortable working in large unfamiliar C/C++ codebases
  • Experience developing source-level game engine features/optimizations
  • Strong 3D graphics related mathematics background
  • Expertise with Vulkan, DirectX, OpenGL, or OpenGL ES
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience shipping at least one commercial PC or console game
  • Familiarity with 3D graphics profilers and debuggers such as Snapdragon Profiler, RenderDoc, Pix, NSight, etc…
  • Familiar with modern PC/console game engine architectures

Responsibilities

  • Leverages advanced knowledge of software gaming to architect, design, implement, verify, and optimize visual fidelity, responsiveness, functionality, performance, and power of game applications for mobile, computer, XR, console, auto, and cloud products.
  • Designs and develops highly advanced game rendering, engine, animation, artificial intelligence, networking, user interface, physics, and audio software and algorithms for optimal execution on the application processor.
  • Develops and optimizes complex new game software, game engines and gaming tools and enhance existing commercial game engines for hardware targets and operating systems.
  • Develops and utilizes gaming software running on CPU, GPU, DSP, NPU, DPU and other application processor components.
  • Performs critical system level profiling and isolates highly complex gaming issues (e.g., rendered images, power, performance) through design experiments to identify root causes, debug issues, and develop solutions; addresses customer issues and helps others do the same.
  • Performs critical pre- and post- target bring up game verification to validate correctness and ensure performance and power goals are met for top games.

Preferred Qualifications

  • PC Gaming
  • Mobile Gaming
  • VR
  • AR
  • Virtual Reality
  • Augmented Reality
  • Vulkan
  • Unreal Engine 4
  • UE4
  • Unity 3D
  • Messiah
  • Frostbite
  • Snowdrop
  • Anvil
  • Graphics
  • Rendering
  • GPU
  • Shader
  • Compute
  • Android
  • Gaming
  • OpenGL ES
  • DirectX
  • C++
  • Game Development
  • Game Engine