This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it is safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Project: AAA PvP Shooter Games

OPM’s client is rapidly growing with many high-end games in development across multiple genres including Narrative Adventure and Action Shooter titles.

They are a team of professional, friendly developers who form a world class studio staffed with excited, passionate creators who love to collaborate across varied, inspiring, and challenging games.

The successful candidate will join development on a ground-breaking next generation PvP shooter with a Games as a Service focus.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Professional experience in a comparable role, having shipped at least one title
• Superb C++ programming skills
• Good 3D maths (vectors, matrices, linear algebra)
• Broad software engineering knowledge (OOP, design patterns, API development)
• Experience profiling and optimising CPU performance of real-time systems
• Experience debugging issues in large and complex codebases

RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Understand and evaluate the physics related requirements of the project against the existing system to understand what further developments are needed
• Deliver robust, efficient, clear, and maintainable code, while striving to reduce technical debt across the game
• Investigate and evaluate third party tools, libraries, and frameworks
• Carry out investigation as required to provide realistic targets, budgets and expectations based on robust profiling, considering the design requirements of the game
• Design and oversee implementation of physics system protocols and disseminate budgets, protocols, and pipelines across the game team
• Respond to design feedback to help meet the creative vision of the game
• Provide constructive input to and feedback on designs during initial design, prototyping, iteration, and polish stages
• Work closely with designers, artists, and other coders to improve and maintain the physics system
• Assisting across the project with debugging, profiling, and optimisation, and performing diligent testing of changes
• Help mentor and guide junior members of the coding team

DESIRED SKILLS (good to have):

• Experience working in Unreal Engine 4
• Experience with Console development
• Experience developing gameplay for VR

BENEFITS:

• Private Healthcare Plan.
• Bonus Scheme.
• Enhanced Holiday Allowance.
• Pension Plans.
• Work remotely within the UK.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 418!

Tagged as: AAA, C, Physics Programming