Senior Graphics Programmer (C++/AAA Games)

Location: United States, San Diego, CA; the role follows a hybrid working policy.

Salary: $138,700–$208,100 USD per year, plus potential bonus.

Company

hirify.global, part of Sony Interactive Entertainment, develops gaming hardware, network services, and entertainment experiences, including the MLB The Show AAA sports franchise.

What you will do

• Develop, optimize, and maintain cross-platform build and data-packaging pipelines for current and future platforms.
• Bring the engine up on new platforms and lead SDK upgrades, resolving toolchain, filesystem, memory, address-space, boot, and packaging issues.
• Investigate crashes, out-of-memory conditions, and stability issues across consoles and memory-constrained mobile devices.
• Build, package, harden, and release Android and iOS products while maintaining build automation.
• Own internal tools for data packaging, memory tracking, metrics, and profiling.
• Modernize build systems and infrastructure, manage branch integration, and coordinate releases with engineering, QA, and production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of C++ programming experience focused on performance-critical and system-level applications.
• Experience developing and releasing one or more AAA titles.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills involving memory management, crashes, toolchains, SDKs, and unfamiliar systems.
• Experience with build systems, packaging and deployment pipelines, build automation, Visual Studio, Perforce, and shell or batch scripting.
• Working proficiency in C# for tools and pipeline development, with a low-level understanding of pointers, address spaces, compiler and linker flags, and optimization.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping on hirify.global, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Android, or iOS, including SDK, certification, packaging, and store-submission requirements.
• Experience developing graphical internal developer tools with C# or WinForms.
• Familiarity with Python scripting.
• Exposure to graphics and rendering concepts within platform memory and performance budgets.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across engineering, QA, and production teams.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, and wellness program.
• Employee discounts on Sony products.
• Potential eligibility for a bonus package.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage and may include criminal background checks for some roles.