Hybrid Senior Unreal Engine 5 Engineer II – Unannounced Game

at Blizzard Entertainment

• Job title: Senior Unreal Engine 5 Engineer II – Unannounced Game
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $146,000 - $270,004 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Unreal Engine
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Irvine, United States

About the role

• Senior Engine Systems developer at Blizzard optimizing Unreal Engine 5 across various platforms. Collaborating with teams to ensure performance and efficiency in game development.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features within UE5 or evolve pre-existing engine features in collaboration with artists, designers, and engineers to meet project requirements.
• Optimize Unreal Engine 5 performance and functionality across multiple hardware platforms.
• Act as a primary point-of-contact to the larger development team on all issues engine-related, providing guidance to designers, artists, and gameplay engineers on how to optimally leverage engine functionality to maximize engine performance and minimize application memory consumption.
• Work with project leadership to identify, prioritize, and implement improvements for engine-based workflows.

Requirements

• Extensive experience as an Engine Engineer using Unreal Engine 5, experience shipping or launching a UE5 game strongly preferred.
• Writing fluent C++ code with a sophisticated knowledge of both historical patterns and modern language features.
• Understanding of data structures and algorithms and their appropriate use cases.
• Experience with multithreading, performance analysis, and code optimization.
• Experience shipping games on multiple platforms.
• Experience as an engine programmer working with AAA third-party game engines.
• Shipped at least one AAA game in a similar role.
• Previous experience leading and mentoring a team of engineers (extra points).
• Familiarity with C# (extra points).
• A degree in computer science or a related field (extra points).
• Strong documentation philosophies to capture and evangelize best practices (extra points).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.