Game Tools Engineer Job in Lake Forest 92630, California US
Game Tools Engineer
A2Z Research and Development, an Amazon.com company, is looking for a Tools Engineer to join our team to work on world class games for a variety of emerging platforms. You will work with the entire team to make their lives better, streamline their workflow and help build better quality games at a fast pace. If you want the fun and feel of a start-up company, but the solid management and resources of a Fortune 100 company, then it's time to tell that comfortable, unchallenging, boring job to hit the road and join our Game Studio !
The primary responsibility of the Tools Engineer is to partner with the content team in providing them with new and improved tools to maximize iteration and validate the functionality of the game. The Tools Engineer will work hand-in-hand with the entire team, to design, iterate, and execute on a variety of tools pipelines. The Tools Engineer will also be writing tests and validation suites.
We are looking for someone that can. . .
- Collaborate with a small to medium sized team of designers, programmers and artists to develop smart solutions to difficult problems
- Challenge yourself and others to constantly raise the bar
- Design, develop and own various tools ranging from content creation tools, to data visualizers, to game editors, to test modes to automated build and test frameworks
- Maintain and support existing and new infrastructure as needed
- Independently identify the bottlenecks for content creators and improve team efficiency
- Understand sources of bugs and write stress tests and unit tests to eliminate them
- Help contribute to game design and quality through making more things possible
If you are that person, then this is your dream opportunity.
- BS/BA in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience with commercial game engines such as Unity or Unreal
- Demonstrated proficiency in and knowledge of Java/C++/C#, data structures, performance, and multi-threaded programming techniques.
- Proficient in a modern scripting language
- Previous game development experience
- Ability to work in ambiguous environment
- Experience with 3DS Max plugin and script development.
- Experience with computer game technologies including: Camera systems, AI programming, physics, 3D programming, animation, collision detection.
- Demonstrated ability to write clean, readable, portable, reliable, and optimized tools code.
- Contributed extensively to the development of tools for at least one shipped game.
We offer excellent pay, generous stock and bonus plans, great benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401k with matching, and more. Relocation is available for qualified candidates.
a2z Research and Development, part of the Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies, is an equal opportunity employer. We are located in Lake Forest, CA . Learn more about a2z online at www.a2z.com/oc.
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