Senior Tools Engineer

PERPETUAL ENTERTAINMENT - ONLINE VIDEO GAMES

 

Join the Perpetual Entertainment crew as we boldly explore the frontiers of the online gaming universe! Perpetual, located in downtown San Francisco, is poised to become a major player in the software entertainment and platform development industry. Our core team members are industry veterans, battle-scarred leaders in the field who cut their teeth at EA, Blizzard, LucasArts, and other first-rate gaming companies. They've all come to Perpetual for the same reasons: Perpetual Entertainment is crafting the most innovative and anticipated massively multiplayer games, and we're doing it in the center of the Bay Area's cutting-edge technology community. San Francisco offers more culture than any other city on the planet. Thus it is the perfect home for Perpetual, a company that offers its employees such diverse opportunities as exploring human civilization's ancient past and creating alien planets!

 

Perpetual's mission is to craft gaming experiences that immerse players in other worlds like no game has before. In order to continue our stellar progress, we will need to add even more creative and motivated people to our staff. Can you muster up to the challenge?

 

www.godsandheroes.com

 

www.startrekonline.com

 

 

 

CURRENTLY HIRING - SENIOR TOOLS ENGINEER

 

This position will be responsible for designing, planning and implementing tools required to build an MMO from asset creation to level editing and more.

 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 Create a world building tool and asset pipeline for our next generation MMO game

 

QUALIFICATIONS

 B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent, M.S. preferred Excellent win32 programming experience Excellent (5 years or more) C++ experience High Level C++ skills and concepts (i.e. smart pointers) Excellent understanding of complex software systems Good object oriented design and architectural skills (design patterns) Experience developing GUI based tools Ability of working in teams and leading a given task Excellent documentation habits including code and how-to guides Maya experience Good knowledge of python  

Additional Qualifications

 Good STL skills Previous exposure to game based tools development (3D editing tools, art/animation tools) 3D graphics programming knowledge Embedding / extending python MMORPG development and/or playing experience