Senior Engineer - Retro Studios

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.



Description of Duties

• A senior individual contributor responsible for the development and integration of game systems and tools
• Utilizes in-depth experience to identify and anticipate potential areas for improvement, and to assist, train and mentor junior members of the team
• Designs, writes, tests, implements and maintains clear maintainable code
• Writes documentation for other programmer's use
• Has a clear vision of how products should function and the ability to lead peers to share this vision
• Develop systems and content for Nintendo titles
• Develop and maintain C# & Win32 tools to manage asset pipeline and creation
• Identify future areas for development and improvement
• Communicate with senior management costs/benefits of system development
• Work with art and design teams to optimize content creation and to define technical solutions to their problems
• Report to engineering director on project status