SENIOR CONSOLE ENGINEER (8Bit)

🕹 First-Person Military Shooter
🧠 Senior
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote

🦄 Description
An American PC/Console studio is looking for a Console Engineer specializing in PlayStation and Xbox development. You will build high-performance game systems, optimize for console hardware, work closely with cross-functional teams and contribute to long-term technical planning. The studio develops a first-person military shooter using Unreal Engine.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Develop, implement and maintain gameplay systems, engine features and tools for PlayStation and Xbox
• Optimize performance, memory usage, loading times and frame-rate stability for console hardware
• Integrate platform-specific SDKs, APIs and services including networking
• Debug and resolve console-specific issues such as certification blockers and performance regressions
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, artists and QA to ensure smooth performance on target hardware
• Work with technical leadership on architecture decisions, best practices and long-term plans
• Support console certification and submission processes

📚 Required Skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional game development experience and at least one shipped console title
• Proficiency in C++ with strong understanding of OOP, memory management and real-time optimization
• Experience with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S SDKs
• Strong debugging skills using platform-specific tools
• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Ability to work in an iterative, fast-paced environment
• Proactive mindset, strong problem-solving skills and ownership of produced work

👍 Nice to Have
• None listed

🍪 What we offer
• Culture built on mutual trust and respect
• B2B contract
• Fully remote work
• Provided hardware
• Profit-sharing

🌐 Vacancy link

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Senior Console Engineer