Director of Engineering
Seattle, WA
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee technical implementation and estimation of all company engineering efforts.
- Maintain regular meetings and communication with engineering leads and system architects within the company.
- Foster communication, organization, and collaboration among engineering on all company teams.
- Oversee all engineering hires.
- Maintain and evolve engineering hiring processes.
- Maintain and evolve engineering processes, standards, training and organization.
- Collaborate with engineering leads and VP, Engineering to establish technology strategy.
- Establish R&D objectives for core technology team.
- Develop technology objectives for core technology features identified by internal titles.
- Directly manage core technology team manager and oversee core technology team budgets.
- Collaborate with executive team to establish shared strategies for better estimation and efficiency.
- Collaborate with executive team on future product positions with emphasis on technology opportunities.
- Participate in engineering leads annual reviews
- Coordinate technology licensing and/or outsourcing
- Maintain relationships with 3rd-party development partners
Job Qualifications:
- 7 years professional C/C++ programming experience.
- 3 years technical management experience.
- Lead the engineering efforts on at least one large AAA game project from start to finish.
- Ability to work well in a collaborative team environment.
- Ability to lead others with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Positive, focused, self-motivated and easy to work with.
- Broad and current technology understanding.
- Excellent time management, organizational, and risk management skills.
- Ability to both give and receive direction and constructive criticism.
- Ability to quickly come up to speed on technology and engineering processes.
- Respect for all internal process, and a strong desire to learn those processes.
- Microsoft Visual C++ development environment experience.
- Must be truly passionate about making games.
Preferred:
- Experience as a Director of Engineering, Technical Director, or Engineering Manager within a videogame developer/publisher.
- Experience developing 1st-person action games.
- Experience working with popular 3D engine architectures and game systems (e.g., LithTech, Unreal, Source, etc.)
- Experience developing for PS3 and XBox 360
- Experience as a licensee and/or licensor of videogame technologies
- M.S. in Computer Science / Software Engineering
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