Senior Gameplay Engineer (Graphics & Optimization)

Are you looking for an opportunity to work on a brand-new title with a team of highly respected game developers? Are you a reliable, effective, and quality focused Engineer that can level up a project and the team around you? Do you enjoy expanding your games audience by bringing it to new platforms? Our team at Stoic, a multi-award winning independent video game studio, is seeking a PC-platform-focused Senior Gameplay Engineer for development of Towerborne.

What you will do

• Maintain and improve our cell shader
• Explore improvements to our lighting model
• Profile and Optimize runtime performance on the CPU and GPU for both client and server and memory use.
• Educate other team members on best practices
• Work closely with other engineers and technical artists on optimization

Must have

• C++ expertise
• HLSL or GLSL expertise
• Experience in Unreal Engine 4 or 5
• Write clean, efficient, reliable, and reusable code
• Proactive and detail oriented
• Excellent communication skills with a variety of audiences
• Worked on one or more shipped games

Nice to have

• Experience working on a live service game post launch
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience optimizing network traffic and bandwidth

While Stoic is a fully remote, forever remote workforce, this is a US-based role. The person filling this role will need to be eligible to work without visa support and located in the contiguous United States.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

United States Pay Range

$140,000 - $180,000 USD

This range is determined by several factors, including training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. It is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

The final job level and compensation will be determined by the candidate’s work experience, years of relevant experience, skills, qualifications, certifications, geographic location, and other business considerations.

We provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Stoic does NOT offer relocation assistance.