Lead Gameplay Engineer

2 Months ago • 7 Years + • Gameplay • $110,160 PA - $230,040 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Lead Gameplay Engineer will lead a team in crafting innovative gameplay content systems. Responsibilities include managing the gameplay schedule, implementing and optimizing gameplay systems in C/C++, and fostering cross-disciplinary relationships. The role involves providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, participating in recruitment, and facilitating team-building activities. The company encourages an open and transparent environment where failure is seen as a learning opportunity, and everyone contributes. They face challenges and succeed together. Join Lightspeed LA and be part of a journey to build games.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of professional game programming experience
  • Experience bringing multiple large-scale game titles to completion.
  • Expert in C++, debugging, and 3D mathematics
  • Ability to collaborate with other game developers
  • Deep knowledge of gameplay systems involving AI, animation, physics, and character-related systems.
Good to have:
  • Experience working either AAA proprietary engines or third party engines like Unreal and Unity
  • Experience with game console hardware
  • Understanding of game asset pipelines
Perks:
  • Free daily lunch
  • Beverages, fresh fruit, and snacks
  • 401k with employer match
  • Monthly Cell phone bill reimbursement
  • Financial wellness sessions
  • Flexible spending account
  • Team building and company outings
  • Parental leave for new parents
  • Company paid health insurance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Wellness training
  • Travel insurance
  • Preventive care

Job Details

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

General:

  • Work with and lead a gameplay engineering team to craft development of innovative gameplay content systems and experiences

  • Work with design and production and engineering leadership to manage the gameplay schedule and backlog

  • Implement, debug and optimize gameplay systems in C/C++ and other languages

  • Author lean, high-performance, maintainable code

  • Cultivate strong cross-disciplinary working relationships based on honesty and transparency among various departments within the studio

Leadership and Management:

  • Provide technical leadership across multiple gameplay systems and features

  • Mentor, develop, and learn from engineering colleagues

  • Be a leadership resource for engineers across the entire gameplay team

  • Help build and maintain an open and energetic team culture

  • Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with team members to provide guidance, feedback, and support their professional development

  • Participate in the recruitment and onboarding of new team members, ensuring a diverse and skilled team that aligns with project requirements

  • Facilitate team-building activities to promote a positive and collaborative working environment

Who We Look For

  • Passion and enthusiasm for creating fun and engaging gameplay through iteration and innovation

  • Experience bringing multiple large-scale game titles to completion on PC and consoles

  • 7+ years of professional game programming experience

  • Experience managing direct reports

  • Experience performing in a senior or principal software engineering role or equivalent

  • Ability to collaborate with other engineers, designers, artists and other game developers

  • Ability to work well in a fluid, changing environment as creative challenges evolve

  • Deep knowledge of gameplay systems involving AI, animation, physics, and character-related systems from engine to game

  • Expert in C++, debugging, and 3D mathematics

  • Enjoy working closely with creative and technical team members

  • Value lean, simple, efficient, well-tested code

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred:

  • Experience working either AAA proprietary engines or third party engines like Unreal and Unity

  • Experience with game console hardware

  • Understanding of game asset pipelines

Why Join Us?

Perks and Benefits:

Just some of the benefits of working with us here at our newly built studio in Irvine, CA.

● Free daily lunch
● Beverages, fresh fruit, and snacks
● 401k with employer match
● Monthly Cell phone bill reimbursement
● Financial wellness sessions
● Flexible spending account
● Team building and company outings
● Parental leave for new parents
● Company paid health insurance
● Life and disability insurance
● Employee assistance program
● Wellness training
● Travel insurance
● Preventive care

If the above sounds like you, or if you'd like to know more about the role, we'd love to hear from you to see if we might be a good fit for each other! Contact us for more information about this exciting opportunity.

Location State(s)

California

The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $110,160.0 to $230,040.0 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

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