9 hours ago
Bucharest, RomaniaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, coach a distributed engineering team, and align teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Collaborate with Unity, Unreal, and game studios to optimize engine runtime architecture, frame scheduling, render graph pipelines, shader compilation, and memory allocators.
- Develop diagnostic tools, automated regression detection, and optimization playbooks for game developers.
- Partner with platform rendering and graphics teams, including Choreographer, to investigate and eliminate jank, frame deadline misses, and compositor bottlenecks.
- Build memory instrumentation, profiling tools, and memory budget frameworks to prevent out-of-memory crashes, paging stalls, and background app evictions.
- Comply with company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Eight years of experience programming in one or more languages such as C++, C#, or Rust.
- Five years of experience testing and launching software products.
- Three years of experience with software design and architecture.
- Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
- Preferred: three years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- Preferred: experience with game engine architecture and runtime performance, including Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, or custom engines.
- Preferred: experience with modern graphics APIs or GPU rendering pipelines.
- Preferred: experience with performance profiling and tracing tools.
- Preferred: experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.
Benefits
- Romania-based compensation includes RON 500,000–515,000, a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
About Google
Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.