Graphic Engineer

Cryptic Studios is a leading developer of massively multiplayer online role playing games, with a reputation for delivering profitable, on-time and on-budget titles. Cryptic developed the innovative and successful City of Heroes, as well as its subsequent expansion, City of Villains. Both titles garnered numerous awards from leading enthusiast press including GameSpy Game of the Year award in 2004.

Cryptic Studios is currently seeking a Graphics Engineer. This position works closely with other graphics programmers and game lead programmers to maintain our custom graphics engine and tool chain, and to upgrade it to meet the ever-changing state-of-the-art. We’re always pushing the envelope, and you’ll relish the challenge!

Located in Northern California in Los Gatos, we offer the fun, focused, and casual atmosphere of a small developer. We actively balance our work with the personal lives of our employees. At Cryptic, we look for people who have passion for what they do and work well in teams to create and operate fun and challenging online games.

• Global illumination
• Physically based lighting models
• Physically based substance compositing
• Volumetric rendering techniques
• Multi-threaded rendering
• Modern antialiasing techniques

What we need to see:

• Thorough grasp of C and C++
• Experience with constructing and debugging multi-threaded systems
• Strong communication skills to work cohesively with both engineers and artists
• Self-drive to learn new rendering techniques and implement them
• Architecturally-minded approach with respect to designing scalable systems and managing technical debt
• Experience writing and debugging shader code
• Ability to digest and maneuver a large and complicated code base

What we’d like to see:

• Console development experience
• Conceptual fluency with physically based rendering techniques
• Mathematical Analysis skills
• 4-year degree required (or equivalent experience in relevant field)
• 2 years of experience