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Senior Software Engineer, Gameplay

Blizzard Entertainment
Location Irvine, California, United States of America, US
Full-time

Responsibilities

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities :

Leveraging your experience and knowledge to deliver best-in-class player experiences, from end to end, within the constraints of game simulation.

Empowering designers, artists, and other engineers to deliver the vision of the game and ensuring we delight and entertain our players.

Collaborating with designers and engineers on gameplay teams to learn and understand their needs and offer technical solutions.

Optimizing team productivity by supporting content-creation pipelines, tool development, and workflow improvements.

Championing Blizzards core values.

Requirements

Experience

5+ years of experience in gameplay engineering or a combination of applicable training and experience.

Experience delivering AAA-quality features and experiences as part of a cross-functional team including designers, artists, animators, level designers, FX artists, etc.

Experience working on real-time 3D games.

Knowledge & Skills

The ability to understand and write production-grade C++ code.

The capacity to make frequent, readable, well-tested code commits.

The ability to communicate and articulate vision, ideas, learnings from others, and to give meaningful feedback.

Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

Experience analyzing game features and content for performance and optimizing a game to release quality.

Experience working closely in multi-disciplinary teams with people of diverse mindsets.

Mentorship mindset and excellent attitude to helping others level up their knowledge.

Extra Points

Experience

Computer science, mathematics, physics, or related degree.

Experience developing and shipping AAA game titles for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation consoles.

Knowledge & Skills

Experience with large codebase.

Experience working on online multiplayer games.

Key Attributes

Passion for gameplay development, especially for the quality of the moment-to-moment experience.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ : MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences.

Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industrys most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards.

Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment.

We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush and Bubble Witch.

Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.

We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment.

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications?

Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including :

  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
  • 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.
  • 7 hours ago
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