Pipeline Engineer

Our Mission

Radical Forge is a Middlesbrough, UK-based developer that has provided co-development services on a range of AAA and indie titles. In 2021, the company created its first original IP, 'Brightpaw', which Rogue Games published on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One/Series S/X, Google, and iOS. The studio is currently working on the much-anticipated silly, physics-based, sandbox farming game, 'Southfield'.

Since its beginnings in 2017, the company has grown to over 60 incredibly talented, collaborative, and creative individuals. We are the sum of our skills, passion, and, most of all, our people. We firmly believe that treating individuals with genuine respect, understanding, and kindness creates a welcoming culture that allows creativity to thrive and for individuals to join together to create games they are genuinely proud of.

Your Mission

• Design and implement solutions that provide both production and runtime requirements.
• Integrate new technologies into the pipeline.
• Collaborate with developers in surrounding disciplines to build and maintain long lived, architecturally sound graphics and animation pipeline components.
• Provide support and training to co-developers and users.
• Document workflows and advocate best practices.
  

Ideal Applicant

• Robust programming skills in C++
• Experience working with other languages (Python, C#, AngelScript, etc.)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience developing processing tools (ex: geometry, animation, textures)
• Solid math background
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Self-sufficient, with strong time management skills
• Interest/experience in service-based architectures
• Solid understanding of contemporary graphics capabilities and processes
• Familiarity with Qt
• Experience developing plugins for various DCCs (Houdini, Maya, etc.)
• Experience with various formats: FBX, USD, Alembic, Proprietary
• Experience working on MMO or GaaS
• Perforce experience

• We will require all applicants to live in the UK, and have a pre-existing right to work in the UK.
• The role will initially be a 12 month contract with the potential to extend after this.

• Interested in the job but don't feel you match the criteria? If you feel passionate about this role or joining the Radical Forge team we would still like to hear from you! We value our company culture, and we’re always looking for creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds to join our team!