Senior Graphics Engineer

Who We Are

AuthorDigital is a fast growing, female-led game studio in the PNW** that is currently in the early stages of developing an unannounced title of epic proportions for a fantastic IP. This is your chance to join our talented team of industry veterans and have a direct impact on a game that is sure to be magical!

What You’ll Do

Our studio is seeking a Graphics focused Software Engineer to help our games across multiple platforms look amazing. In this role you’ll collaborate closely with the product owners, designers, artists, QA, and other engineers to understand and then solve the graphics technical challenges for the games. Ultimately you will be responsible for enabling the artists and game-play engineers to create amazing and engaging visuals for our games on console, PC, and mobile.

Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate effectively with designers, artists, and programmers to create and maintain graphics related technical design documents, inform milestone schedules, epics, stories, and tasks.
• Design and develop graphics solutions that create amazing visuals and get the most from our various platforms.
• Work with multiple game teams to help them establish graphics budgets, identify and solve rendering issues, and improve graphical performance.
• Help technical artists and tools engineers to develop our art pipeline to get the most our of our art assets.
  
  

Your Qualifications

• 8+ years of game development experience focusing on graphics solutions.
• Worked on at least one commercial video game through the entire development life-cycle.
• Advanced knowledge of C#, development and optimization skills with Unity.
• Knowledge of Unity's new scriptable render pipelines.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing innovative graphics solutions.
• Experience developing for either XBox or Playstation consoles (or both).
• Great communication skills.
• Self-motivated and proactive.
• Positive attitude and a genuine team player.
  
  

Bonus Qualifications

• Located in the Pacific Time Zone
  
  

Perks Of Joining Our Team

• Competitive compensation packages, including company-subsidized medical/dental/vision plans for you and your dependents as well life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage completely paid for by AuthorDigital.
• Flexible work hours and generous PTO/leave policies.
• Nine paid company holidays throughout the year and a company-wide end of year break to celebrate the winter holidays.
• Emphasis on an employee-first working culture; the mental and physical health of our team is prioritized!
  
  

At AuthorDigital, we celebrate diversity and have committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

• Location Note: In this new era, we are working remotely and have embraced the level of self-sufficiency required to be successful as a team. We are using a variety of communication and task tracking systems to keep things moving as expected. We have performed above and beyond in this format and would expect any new teammate to mesh with this easily. All candidates should have a strong work ethic, an ability to meet deadlines while working remotely, and have a consistent high-speed internet connection to work from their home location.