POSITION: Senior Graphics Engineer

JOB TYPE: Full-time

Want to work on a super high-profile title? Exercise your creativity, turn gaming on its head, and make games for gamers and non-gamers alike? Come work at Page 44 Studios, located in San Francisco, two blocks from BART! Page 44 provides the magic combination of genuinely rewarding, collaborative work, proper work/life balance, and stability in an uncertain world. For over 11 years, Page 44 has been creating tons of high profile games for the best publishers. We are currently working on multiple mass-market projects that will reach the living rooms of your family and friends. Come check it out!

 

Overview:

Make a difference on your next project and come join us at Page 44 Studios. We are working on multiple extremely high profile projects that are soon to be announced and need great teammates with good heads on their shoulders to help us make great products.

We’ve been around for a while now (since 1998) so we know how to build a fantastic product; we just need more people to help us do it. Our client list includes Disney, Activision, Electronic Arts, Sony, HP, and Microsoft, and our published titles include: Madden ’10 iPhone, Hannah Montana: Rock Out the Show for PSP, High School Musical 3: Dance! for Xbox 360, Wii, PC and PS2, Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground for Wii and PS2, Tony Hawk’s Project 8, Godfather: Mob Wars, Gretzky NHL 2005 & 2006, the EA Sports Big hit "Freekstyle", and EA Sports' NHL 2001 and SuperCross 2001.

We offer a great, flexible and relaxed work environment (where the goal is always to do what we can to eliminate crunch times), competitive salaries, and solid benefits. Our programmer teams are collegial and very much a working collective.

We are located in the warm part of San Francisco (SOMA area) and are purposely located a few blocks (i.e., super easy walking distance) from the FERRY, BART and MUNI lines.

Oh yeah, we are an equal opportunity employer.

You can visit us at http://www.page44.com.

 

Description:

Page 44 is currently looking for a highly talented Senior Graphics Engineer to work on our engine and support our high profile titles. You should be able to handle low-level graphics issues in our proprietary technologies; this involves:

 

-          Writing graphics engine code and shaders for PS3 or 360

-          Maintaining and creating pipeline and authoring tools

 

If you are hands-on graphics programmer that can hit the ground running, e-mail your resume to us ASAP to: programmer at page44 dot com with Graphics Programmer in the subject line.

 

 

Requirements:

·         Experience writing and optimizing low-level graphics code on PS3 or Xbox360

·         Experience writing and optimizing shaders in Cg or another high-level shading language

·         Familiar with commercial tools for profiling and debugging graphics code

·         Experience working with data build pipelines and authoring tools for artists

·         Keeps current on the latest trends in graphics programming (papers, blogs, articles)

·         Expert-level knowledge of 3D math

·         Solid grasp of multithreaded/multiprocessor environments

 

 

Experience with the following is a plus:

·         PS3 Edge

·         Deferred shading systems

·         SPU coding and optimization

·         Lighting systems (offline and real-time)

·         Next-gen shadowing techniques

·         Full-screen effects

·         Next-gen material rendering techniques (fur, water, etc).

·         Assembly-level profiling and optimization (GPU/SPU/CPU).

·         Optimization via SPU/GPU implementation of non-graphics functionality such as animation or physics

 

Contact:

Email your resume to programmer at page44 dot com with Graphics Programmer in the subject.

 

 

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