Senior Graphics Programmer
PlayStation Global22 hours ago
Base Salary
$139k - $208k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, optimize, and maintain cross-platform game build and data-packaging pipelines.
- Bring the game engine up on new platforms and lead platform SDK upgrades, resolving toolchain, filesystem, memory, address-space, boot, and packaging issues.
- Identify and resolve crashes, out-of-memory conditions, and stability problems across console and mobile hardware.
- Build, package, harden, and release Android and iOS products while maintaining build automation.
- Own internal tools for data packaging, memory tracking, metrics, and profiling.
- Plan and lead modernization of build systems, toolchains, and infrastructure.
- Manage branch integration across mainline, staging, production, and patch branches with engineering, QA, and production teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of C++ programming experience focused on performance-critical and system-level applications.
- Strong experience developing and releasing one or more AAA titles.
- Ability to work across many unfamiliar systems and troubleshoot difficult low-level issues involving memory, crashes, toolchains, and SDKs.
- Experience with build systems, packaging and deployment pipelines, and build automation including Jenkins, MSBuild, Gradle, and shell or batch scripting.
- Understanding of memory management, pointers, address spaces, compiler and linker flags, and optimization behavior.
- Hands-on experience with Visual Studio, Perforce, and standard development tools.
- Working proficiency in C# for tools and pipeline development.
- Preferred qualifications include console shipping experience, mobile title shipping experience, internal developer-tool development with graphical front ends, and Python scripting familiarity.
- Exposure to graphics and rendering concepts, including platform memory and performance budgets, is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and employee discounts for Sony products.
- The role may be eligible for a bonus package.
- Hybrid working policy applies, and base pay may vary based on location and job-related factors.
- Background checks are conducted at the offer stage.