WB Games / Avalanche · 2 days ago
Advanced Software Engineer (FX)
Salt Lake City, UT
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expWarner Bros. Discovery is a leading entertainment company known for its iconic content and beloved brands. The Advanced Software Engineer (FX) will collaborate with designers, artists, and engineers to develop immersive gameplay experiences and maintain visual and effects systems for high-quality AAA games.
Computer Games
Responsibilities
Design, authoring, maintenance and refactoring of visual and effects systems that meet all design, technical and schedule requirements
Collaborate with technical leadership and other engineers to help establish overall technical design and architecture
Work in concert with designers and content creators to engineer solutions that satisfy design and content requirements
Partner with the production staff in building and maintaining realistic schedules, identifying dependencies and raising red flags where appropriate
Cooperate closely with QA and technical leadership to ensure the stability and accuracy of code and authoring systems by identifying, communicating and resolving defects
Qualification
Required
B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Over 5 years of professional game programming experience
Experience with special effects, shaders, and physics
An understanding of system optimization issues
Strong verbal communication skills: the ability to easily communicate technical topics with both engineers and non-technical people
Self-starter attitude, and comfort with collaboration
Strong passion to build industry-leading game visuals and ship the highest quality AAA games
Proficiency with Unreal Engine
Preferred
Experience in collaborating with technical and FX artists to deliver fully realized effects
Experience in Houdini and/or SideFX
Work in compute shaders or other massively parallel general processing paradigms
Experience working in console game development, from start to finish, on multiple projects
Experience with Unreal Engine's Niagara and Chaos systems
Benefits
Career defining opportunities
Thoughtfully curated benefits
Tools to explore and grow into your best selves
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Company
WB Games / Avalanche
Avalanche is a Warner Bros. Games studio located in downtown Salt Lake City nestled against the backdrop of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase