Senior Expert Gameplay Engineer (C++)

Location: Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Base pay: $149,100–$275,876 annually in the U.S.; incentive compensation may also apply.

Company

hirify.global develops, publishes, and distributes interactive entertainment and video games, including Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and Guitar Hero.

What you will do

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize complex gameplay systems and features.
• Own gameplay initiatives from technical discovery and prototyping through implementation, iteration, optimization, and final polish.
• Translate gameplay and design goals into robust solutions while identifying constraints, dependencies, trade-offs, and opportunities.
• Collaborate with gameplay and systems designers and integrate systems with animation, AI, UI, audio, physics, networking, and other game technologies.
• Investigate cross-system technical problems, lead design reviews, and influence gameplay architecture, tools, frameworks, and reusable patterns.
• Provide code reviews, documentation, technical guidance, mentoring, and initiative planning for other engineers and production partners.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant game development experience, or equivalent demonstrated scope and expertise.
• Experience building and shipping gameplay systems for at least one PC and/or console title.
• Deep proficiency in modern C++ and strong fundamentals in game architecture, real-time systems, performance, debugging, and optimization.
• Ability to independently own complex gameplay systems from concept through implementation, optimization, and polish.
• Ability to diagnose and solve ambiguous or technically complex problems with limited direction while balancing player experience, performance, maintainability, and delivery priorities.
• Experience translating gameplay concepts and design requirements into effective technical solutions and understanding gameplay fundamentals.
• Experience collaborating with game designers and other engineering and non-engineering disciplines.
• Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and improve team technical quality.
• Clear, inclusive communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping multiplayer or online gameplay.
• Experience with replication, networking, and multiplayer gameplay architecture.
• Experience with AI, navigation, physics, animation systems, or character technology.
• Experience building gameplay frameworks or reusable technology used by multiple teams or systems.
• Experience with gameplay scripting or other methods of enabling rapid designer iteration.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, health spending accounts, life and disability insurance, and mental health and wellbeing programs.
• 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching, paid holidays and vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and various leave programs.
• Additional benefits include fitness programs, free and discounted games, legal services, identity protection, and rental insurance.
• Relocation assistance may be available if the company requires a geographic move for the role.
• Equal opportunity, diversity, inclusion, and reasonable accommodation support are provided.