Technical Director, Engine

Job Description:
Elsewhere Entertainment is looking for a Technical Director, Engine to join the development of a new IP.

You will help direct and define our project's game engine technology, and how we optimize content, workflow, and performance. By leading multiple teams of engineers and working in close partnership with directors and leads across the project, you will boldly craft, coordinate, and prioritize explicit and attainable objectives for the engineering teams within the Engine organization.  

As a leader on the project, you’ll help take the studio and our game from great to even better—with a focus on inclusivity, mutual respect (for ourselves and our players), thoughtfulness, empathy, professionalism, and collaboration.  

You’ll help us by…

• Providing technical mentorship and coaching for engineers on the Game Engine teams, with the Technical Director.
• Guide and grow the team of engineering leads into successful people managers.
• Work with the Technical Director to define and execute strategic goals and milestones, establish best practices and procedures, and evangelize the core development values of the engineering team.
• Work with production staff, directors, and others to establish engineering tasks and manage schedule requirements.
• Review and approve completed engineering tasks in collaboration with the Technical Director, the production staff, and other leads.
• Collaborate with the Technical Director and ensure that technology interests and policies are properly represented and maintained through development and that future technology is being developed on schedule.
• Perform research to acquire new knowledge necessary to perform assigned tasks and maintain the technological evolution of the project.

You’re awesome because you have… 

• 10+ years of professional experience authoring code for game software.
• 2+ years leading impactful engineering teams.
• Experience shipping multiple AAA games, with at least one as a senior engineer or higher on a large team
• Strong, proven C++ skills and shipped at least one professional game primarily authored in C++.
• Significant leadership experience managing engineers.
• Hands-on development expertise in multiple of the following areas: game engine systems, multithreading, streaming, graphics, physics, audio, and tools. 
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with artists, designers, and other engineers.
• Proven aptitude for technical design.

Bonus points for… 

• Experience supporting a live service game.
• Major recognition in your field of work
• Experience in adjacent disciplines such as quest design, environment art, programming, etc.

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

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