As gaming technology continues its evolution, studios are facing greater demands in areas such as engine optimization, workflows, and hybrid and remote development support. Addressing these issues is necessary to maintain a standard of high-quality production and partner with various organizations. These organisations may operate in a distributed model around the globe while peak development cycles are underway.
Coalition Studio has a dedicated history of working in the Gears of War franchise of games and evolving engine innovation as part of its effort to build tools. All game development studios at Xbox Game Studios benefit from these tools. Coalition Studio is also consistently focused on building reliable, scalable, and high-performance development practices.
In this context, the Lead Project Engineer role will focus on generalizing tools and workflow in a way that is usable at several studios to facilitate broader adoption throughout the Xbox Games Technology Group (XGTG). A strong knowledge of C++ and previous experience with Unreal Engine and Perforce are two other key technical aspects that should be kept in mind for the role.
In addition, the Lead Project Engineer will be responsible for the maintenance of internal projects. Much of the Lead Project Engineer’s experience and knowledge will be centered on visual rendering, rendering systems, audio, gameplay, and animation.
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Employer Details
Company: Microsoft
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Salary: CAD $142,400 – CAD $257,500 per year
Job Type: Full-time
Start Date: As soon as possible
Benefits: Industry leading healthcare, opportunities for career advancement and networking, maternity and paternity leave, generous time away from job, giving programs, educational resources and discounts in products and services.
Benefits may vary with the nature of your role and the country you work in.
Job description
- The position manages the internal project that exhibits The Coalition’s shared technologies and workflows to other studios at Xbox.
- Responsibilities will include generalizing tools and developing workflows for adoption by multiple teams that make games.
- Work will involve contributions to engine and platform technologies with the Xbox Games Technology Group (XGTG).
- The position will encompass multiple domains including rendering, systems, audio, gameplay, and animation.
- Candidates will work with engineers, technical artists, and other teams to identify and solve performance and workflow problems.
- You will also help contribute to the broader engineering excellence initiative through our best practices and technical direction.
Responsibilities
- Manage XGTG engineers and technical artists who will modify tools and workflow(for use across Xbox Studios).
- Manage the internal project that promotes shared Xbox technology.
- Work with our technologies, ranging from cloud-hosted C# infrastructure to runtime extensions for Unreal Engine.
- Develop foundational Unreal Engine systems and plugins that reduce artist, designer, and engineer workload.
- Work with content, engineering, and production teams to diagnose issues and implement shared solutions.
- Assist other Xbox studios by diagnosing and solving performance, memory, and developer workflow problems.
- Lead a small team of engineers while mentoring developers, and advocate for best practices throughout the studio.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years experience building and supporting game tools, systems and workflows.
- 3+ years managing people.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Highly proficient in C++, C# and object-oriented design programming.
- High Quality problem solving abilities.
- Experience working and shipping on multiple modern hardware platforms.
- Effective communication skills; ability to work closely with other high-caliber engineers and artists.
- Comfortably works with all disciplines found within a games studio.
- Experience with the Unreal Engine.
- Experience building game engine tools and tool chains.
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