Senior Game Engine Engineer, Platform
Worldscape Technology Inc.4 months ago
Redmond, WA, USASenior
Base Salary
$130k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define physics architecture, including data models, simulation loops, solver strategies, and engine integration points.
- Build collision detection, entity controllers, vehicle dynamics, orbital mechanics, particle and fluid systems, and atmospheric dynamics.
- Integrate physics with gameplay, animation, rendering pipelines, authoring tools, runtime hooks, inverse kinematics, state machines, and event systems.
- Profile and optimize frame time and memory, lead multithreading, Job System, and SIMD efforts, and evaluate GPU compute opportunities.
- Establish test suites, golden scenarios, verification and validation practices, and techniques to reduce simulation instability.
- Build debugging tools, visualizers, probes, and authoring pipelines for designers and QA.
- Lead cross-functional technical efforts with backend, AI, data pipeline, and platform teams, including milestone alignment and trade-off communication.
- Participate in code reviews and design documentation while mentoring developers and maintaining coding and documentation standards.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of real-time or game physics engineering experience and at least two shipped titles with substantial physics ownership.
- Expertise in modern C++, data-oriented design, memory management, profiling, and debugging.
- Knowledge of rigid-body dynamics, collision detection, integration schemes, numerical stability, constraint solvers, and real-time performance trade-offs.
- Experience integrating physics with animation, gameplay systems, and rendering pipelines.
- Experience with multithreading, job systems, SIMD/vectorization, cache-friendly data structures, and frame/memory budgeting.
- Preferred: 5+ years with modern game engines or middleware such as Unreal Engine, Unity, Havok, Bullet, or PhysX.
- Preferred: custom engine experience and 3+ years of advanced simulation involving fracture systems, granular materials, vehicle tire models, buoyancy or aerodynamic effects, or GPU compute.
- Preferred: deterministic networking, rollback/prediction, server-authority models, cross-platform latency mitigation, and shipping on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC.
- Preferred: Python, C#, or Lua for tools and editor extensions, plus physics visualization, debugging overlays, content pipelines, and platform certification experience.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- Attractive benefits package, flexible time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- HSA health insurance options, 401k plan, and basic and voluntary life insurance.
- Fast-paced environment with flexibility, ownership, continued growth, and opportunities to directly affect organizational change.