Senior Graphics Engineer

About The Hiring Team

Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games. Lightspeed LA is focused on building open-world games that emphasize an ambitious living world, sophisticated player-driven gameplay, and mature, thoughtful storytelling. We are developing the first in a series of genre-defining titles.

Why join Lightspeed LA?

For us, it's not only about the exciting, new AAA open world game we're developing but also about team values and studio culture. We foster an open and transparent environment where everyone feels comfortable providing constructive feedback about all aspects of our games.

• We encourage the showing of work that's still in progress.
• We don't attack or question unfinished work, we celebrate its promise.
• We have a No Blame Culture where we blame the problem, not the person.
  
  

This is a safe place to fail, and we don't view failure as a negative, but as the natural result of pushing boundaries and trying new things. We create together. We face Challenges Together. We succeed together.

What The Role Entails

LightSpeed LA is seeking for a talented and enthusiastic senior engineer to join our new studio in sunny Irvine California. The ideal candidate will have a strong passion for games and enabling content creators to deliver the most polished experience for our players. Join our team of industry veterans and help us build a team and culture of respect that pushes boundaries while having lots of fun.

Responsibilities:

• Help maintain a culture of fast iteration and practical problem solving
• Design and program low level graphics engine components
• Evolve iteratively existing systems into state of the art solutions
• Mentor others to make the best use of engine systems and hardware capabilities
  
  

Who We Look For

• Passion for games and the technology that makes them come to life
• Excellent 3D math skills
• Deep understanding of modern rendering techniques, graphics hardware and rendering APIs
• Strong understanding of game content pipeline and tools
• 5 years of professional experience with C programming in the game industry
• Shipped at least one game title on PC and Consoles as a graphics engineer
• Expert C and HLSL knowledge and debugging skills
• Excellent understanding of PC and console hardware bottlenecks and optimization strategies
• Deep understanding of multithreaded programming
• Value lean, simple, efficient, well-tested code
• Comfortable maintaining existing large codebase for multiple platforms
• Team player who works closely with other engineers to make sure our technology provides reliable and fast iteration for our content creators, and a fluid experience for our customers
  
  

Preferred:

• Experience building AAA engine(s)
• Experience with CUDA or similar
• Experience with dynamic GI solution and hardware RT
  
  

Why Join Us?

Location State(s)

US-California-Irvine

The expected base pay range for this position in the location(s) listed above is $116,200.00 to $269,100.00 per year. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Employees hired for this position may be eligible for a sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units, which will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Subject to the terms and conditions of the plans in effect, hired applicants are also eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, and participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan. The Employee is also eligible for up to 15 to 25 days of vacation per year (depending on the employee’s tenure), up to 13 days of holidays throughout the calendar year, and up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year. Your benefits may be adjusted to reflect your location, employment status, duration of employment with the company, and position level. Benefits may also be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

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