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Job Title	Lead Engineer - URGENT!!!
Job Category	Programmers
Job Description	Lead engineer for a next-gen console game project. Duties include enhancing licensed game engines, developing new technologies, designing asset pipelines and tools and writing technical design documentation. Leadership duties include communicating with art and design to establish technical requirements, taking final responsibility for high-level technical design, scheduling and managing the engineering team to bring that design to a shippable state and prioritizing resources to make the best use of time when the schedule gets tight. * Understanding of games industry * Loves games * Strong mathematics background: analytic geometry, linear algebra, calculus, numerical analysis, discrete math, etc... * Strong CS background: data-driven design, abstraction, algorithm design, optimization, systems, etc... * Extensive experience with C/C++ programming * OpenGL, DirectX or equivalent graphics programming Two years hands-on experience in one or more of the following specializations: * Network synchronization for FPS or other fast-pace gameplay * Second-generation vertex/pixel-shading pipelines * Top-level asset loading/streaming frameworks * Scene graphs and spatial partitioning * Large-scale technical design experience: must have ownership of a major system in a shipped title. * Must have worked through the entire cycle of a published console game -- at least one shipped PS2/Xbox/Gamecube title * Strong leadership and communication skills including face-to-face collaboration with non-programmers. * Experience with Unreal (2/3) a plus
Location	Chicago, Illinois, North America
Salary	$HIGH
Date posted	10/10/2008
Recruiter	This job is advertised on behalf of Datascope USA using their internal reference DS8741.