Graphics Engineer
Description
Retro Studios
Founded in 1998, Retro Studios is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo Company, Ltd. Retro is a state-of-the-art game development studio, working in conjunction with Nintendo to bring award-winning games to Nintendo's cutting-edge next-generation platforms. Retro Studios is located in beautiful Austin, Texas. With rolling hills, scenic waterways, abundant wildlife, vibrant music and film scenes, and a laid-back cosmopolitan culture, Austin is a dynamic city with an excellent quality of life. Austin's sunny weather also supports a great range of outdoor activities, providing plenty of venues for top-notch game developers to recharge and unwind.
Purpose/Summary
Individual contributor that develops, writes and debugs code for video game software and tools with a specific focus on game play programming for player, camera, gimmicks and various other game-play systems as required.
*Essential Duties
- Designs, develops, writes, tests, and implements shaders in HLSL and GLSL
- Implements and researches advanced lighting techniques both for precomputed and real-time rendering
- Works with visual effects artists to research and implement new advanced visual effects methodologies
- Works directly with Environment, Character, and Technical Artists to implement new stylized rendering techniques
- Implements surface parameterization and texture atlasing for efficient use in real-time rendering
- Generally responsible for larger systems with others contributing
- Documents and gathers requirements from users for software to be implemented
- Documents and trains other engineers and content creators on the use of system for which he has responsibility
- Works with other engineers to formulate solutions to problems that either he or they may implement
- Identifies and proposes solutions on long-term scale – participates in road-map development
- Participates in providing feedback for the work of other Engineers
- Establishes domain expertise in two or more specializations
*This job description outlines primary duties and requirements and is not intended to identify all tasks that may be performed; individuals occupying the position may be required to perform other duties. The company may modify job duties from time to time, either in practice or in writing.
Knowledge/Experience
- Strong understanding of visual perception and physics
- Experience with Image Processing techniques, including statistical analysis
- Prior experience writing code for video games required
- 5+ years’ experience
- Effective organization, analytical and problem solving skills
- Proficiency with 3D graphics techniques and algorithms and their applications in computer simulation and video game software
- Understanding of core systems such as memory allocators and file systems
- Background in object-oriented design and software engineering methodologies
- Industrial experience in programming languages, such as C/C++, C#
- Strong math and physics skills
- Experience with particle rendering and techniques a plus
Education
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field required, or specific experience video game programming.
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