Staff Gameplay Engineer - Systems and Performance

The role

You will be a technical expert in foundational gameplay systems and game performance. You will design and maintain systems, frameworks, and tools in C++ on Unreal Engine 5 and drive technical direction for performance and optimization.

What you will do

• Design, build and maintain production-quality foundational gameplay systems, frameworks, workflows, and tools in C++ on Unreal Engine 5
• Provide technical direction for shared gameplay systems
• Work with engineers and content creators to evolve architecture and identify risks
• Own game performance and optimization
• Proactively profile the game and identify systemic bottlenecks
• Implement optimizations directly in the codebase
• Establish performance practices, metrics, budgets, profiling workflows, and tools

Required qualifications

• Strong C++ skills
• Ability to design, implement, debug, profile, and maintain production quality systems in a large codebase
• Demonstrated experience architecting and evolving large-scale gameplay systems, frameworks, or shared gameplay infrastructure
• Deep experience profiling and optimizing real-time games
• Experience identifying, investigating, and resolving CPU, memory, networking, and other systemic performance bottlenecks
• Experience developing with Unreal Engine
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

• Experience developing and shipping multiplayer games
• Experience developing and optimizing games across PC and console platforms

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• matching 401(k)
• paid time off
• wellness program
• employee discounts for Sony products
• may be eligible for a bonus package

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage

About the company

teamLFG is working to turn a creative dream into a new franchise at PlayStation.