Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. Our drive is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play.
As the developer of The Sims , we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players.
Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it; a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen.
We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is, but strive to build a world as it could be.
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In this role you will be part of the reimagining of The Sims that players know and love. The Sims is one of the top selling PC game franchise of all time and The Sims 4 is by far our most successful Sims game.
We have 65 million registered players of the base game. To date, The Sims 4 has shipped over 50 content packs and countless base game feature and quality of life updates.
The Sims 4 continues to transcend being "just a game" and continues to be a positive force in people's lives while occupying a unique creative space in the game industry.
We're excited you're interested to learn more about how you can join our team and dream big.
As a Client Software Engineer on The Sims 4, your job will be to improve performance through optimizations.
You will report into a studio Development Director.
Job Responsibilities :
- You will improve the game's memory consumption by increasing the efficiency of the existing solutions, introducing more efficient solutions and technologies, or taking advantage of platform-specific capabilities when possible.
- You will maintain and enhance game performance measurement and profiling tools.
- You will support the scalability of the game client memory to support the growing set of features and content for The Sims.
- You will write technical design documents detailing software requirements.
Qualifications :
- Bachelor / Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
- 5+ years experience in a hands-on development role.
- Demonstrate technical abilities with projects implemented in C++.
- Experience with Windows platform and development tools (e.g. Visual Studio or other programming IDEs).
- Experience optimizing existing game code to be more performant.
Pluses :
- Previous engineering experience overseeing a major system.
- Demonstrate experience working in large data-driven games or applications.
- Experience developing for large-scale live products.
- Experience using static and performance analysis tools, automated testing, unit testing, and configuration management processes.
- Knowledge of UI technologies such as Scaleform, ActionScript 3, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or familiarity with Flash.
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