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Game Tools Engineer

Redmond, WA, US
Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 783086-73680
Division: Interactive Entertainment Business

We’re the people that developed Kinect and profoundly changed the way people interact with technology. Now our studio is ready to change the world again, but we need your help!


We’re a rapidly growing team of experienced incubators and game developers working with truly inspiring entertainment technology. We brainstorm exciting and ground-breaking experiences and quickly build working prototypes on top of developing tech. We transform our ideas into reality through shipping first-to-market products.


You’re an awesome tools-focused game developer who loves to enable other developers, artists, and designers to create inspiring games. You thrive on building and extending world-class applications, pipelines, and telemetry systems to not just help make games, but make games continually better. You're excited to work in a growing agile development studio chartered with creating ground-breaking entertainment experiences on exciting new technology. You're looking to make significant contributions, solve hard problems, and work in a fun and healthy environment with excellent peers.


Qualifications

- Passion for delighting players and users with awesome games and entertainment experiences

- 4+ years of professional development experience in C, C++, or C#

- Strong proficiency in native-code development

- Shipped one or more titles on current generation platforms

- Passion for working collaboratively with technical and non-technical disciplines to create and modify tools to help everyone move faster

- Experience working with and understanding of game data and automation

- Fluency with graphics tools such as ZBrush, 3DS Max, Photoshop

- Strong mathematics skills

- Strong creative problem solving abilities

- Bachelors in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent


Bonus skills

- Aptitude with additional programming languages - Lua, Python, Javascript, MaxScript and HLSL

- Experience with a range of UI development tools - WPF, Windows forms, WxWindows, HTML5

- Experience with secondary scripting languages - Unrealscript, Lua, Python

- Professional database development experience in MS SQL server or equivalent


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