Senior Gameplay Programmer
Rockstar Games4 months ago
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with designers and artists to architect, engineer, and implement gameplay features and systems.
- Identify improvements and extend or modify existing gameplay systems.
- Provide solutions and planning for design changes and feedback.
- Create and maintain performant, stable, well-documented gameplay code and tools.
- Debug, analyze, and optimize complex code created by team members.
- Support and mentor less experienced team members.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience developing video games using C++.
- Ability to optimize personal and team code to meet performance goals.
- Experience engineering and implementing clean, concise APIs.
- Strong understanding of top-down design, object-oriented programming, design patterns, and game design principles.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to identify optimal solutions.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to prioritize work in a dynamic, milestone-driven environment.
- Strong mathematics skills, including vectors, matrices, and linear algebra.
- Desirable: gameplay-focused experience building and refining gameplay systems and features.
- Desirable: at least one shipped title, preferably for Xbox or PlayStation.
- Desirable: knowledge of mobile devices and development processes.
- Desirable: knowledge of multithreaded synchronization primitives.
- Desirable: professional game design or scripting experience.
- Desirable: an online portfolio of code samples.
- Desirable: familiarity with C#, Python, or Lua.
Benefits
- Full-time, permanent position
- In-office role based at Rockstar Games’ game development studio in Sydney, Australia
- Reasonable workplace accommodations are available for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities
About Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games is the global developer and publisher behind some of the world’s most groundbreaking, commercially successful, and critically acclaimed entertainment properties, including the Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne, and Midnight Club series, Bully, L.A. Noire, and The Warriors. Through a commitment to progressive and innovative game design, the highest production values, and quality storytelling, Rockstar Games has helped propel video games to the center of culture. Rockstar Games is an equal opportunity employer.