Multi- Platform Engineer - Giant Squid

Posted: 11 months
Programming
Contract
Senior
Giant Squid is looking for a Multi- Platform Engineer to help us bring our project to console. This role will handle everything related to the technical implementation of features for consoles, and will guide our project through certification processes.  This is a contractor position, with opportunities for full time.

This is a remote position, and we are a fully remote team. We operate mainly in the PST time zone and prefer that your location is in a time zone relatively close to ours – ideally within 3 hours from Pacific Time.

Responsibilities

- Implement cross-platform solutions for console-specific features, such as controller haptics, achievements, activities, and more
- Gather profiling data and optimize performance across all platforms, ensuring a consistent baseline throughout development
- Help guide the project through console certification requirements
- Develop tools for the content team to preview performance issues before they happen
- Ensure build quality and stability on all platforms, resolving platform-specific issues that crop up during development
- Work with design team to implement graphics settings, accessibility options, and alternate control schemes
- Work with UX designer to design & support save-game management system across multiple platforms
- Lead the localization tech effort by developing and maintaining good standards for text and audio content management

Qualifications

- Minimum of 2 shipped console titles (this position specifically calls for first-hand experience with the console release process)
- Extensive experience with console development
- Strong C++ programming skills
- Strong multi-platform debugging skills
- Experience optimizing performance on modern game consoles

Bonus

- Experience developing in Unreal Engine 4 or 5
- Experience managing the localization process
- Experience shipping a game on a modern console (PS4, PS5, XB1, and/or Switch)
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About Giant Squid

Giant Squid is a small but seasoned team of award-winning game developers. The innovative and beautiful game experiences that we make spring from a team culture that is friendly, open, and inclusive.

We believe that video games are more than a pastime - they are an artistic medium that can deliver beautiful, meaningful, and timeless experiences to a wide range of people. Our goal is to create games that fulfill that potential. We strive to create innovative and deeply moving experiences that will inspire players, challenge convention, and push the boundaries of interactive entertainment to new exciting areas.

The only way to do that is with a team culture based on a foundation of unconditional respect for our people. We have built a friendly, open, and inclusive environment where we learn from each other, support each other, and grow together. Game development should be a joyful experience, the best ideas can come from anyone, and the best games are made by happy people who care deeply about what they make. Our culture reflects those values, and continues to be the key ingredient to our success.

We are currently developing Sword of the Sea, an atmospheric surfing adventure in a world of surreal, animating landscapes. Our latest game is The Pathless, the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle exploring a vast forest. Our first game was ABZÛ, an epic descent into the depths of the sea.

Our games celebrate fluid movement, avoid hyper violence, and are approachable for kids and adults alike without compromising on depth, stakes, or meaning. They have something important to say, messages that resonate with our players in a way that only a video game can deliver. We don’t just want to make games that we want to play- we want to make games that nourish, that we can be proud of when we share them, and that leave the world a better place.


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