This Studio is one of the UK’s most prolific and secure independent video game developers.

As well as releasing some truly notable titles they still have more to reveal in the not so distant future. The environment is relaxed, friendly and built upon the basis of every team member having the opportunity to shine and have a realisable input into the games they create.

The Senior Physics Programmer’s primary responsibility is to design and implement complex engine components. You must also exhibit excellent verbal and written communication skills, a high level of understanding towards game technology production and an adaptability to meet the needs of multiple projects utilising common technology.

Responsibilities:

• Development of technical design specification, implementation and test plans
• Testing, debugging and revision of new or legacy engine systems
• Profiling, performance-analysis, performance tuning
• Researching state of the art techniques and contributing innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of game production and development
• Working with Technology Programmers, Development Directors, QA Testers and game project production staff
• Support other programmers on team
• Providing mentorship to Technology Programmers
• Meet production schedules and deadlines

 Essential Skills and Expertise:

• Proficiency in C/C++, Proven, games industry experience
• Proven experience in console programming
• Excellent debugging and communication skills
• Practical experience with 3D maths
• Worked on shipped games
• Proven programming experience with emphasis on physics and/or vehicle simulation
• Experience writing simulation code for components such as collisions, contact force calculation, fluid-dynamics, etc.
• Exposure to GJK, Featherstone, continuous physics, union-find, sweep and prune and other game physics algorithms
• Experience with commercial game physics packages
• Experience with multithreaded/SPU programming

Tagged as: Physics Programming