Senior Engineer, Live

Location:	Westwood	State/Province:	MA
Job ID:	1841	Duration:	Full Time

Description:
Senior Engineer, Live


Turbine, Inc. is the world’s premier creator and operator of massive, persistent online worlds that foster powerful gaming and social communities. Formed over a decade ago with the vision of becoming a leading provider of online entertainment, Turbine has grown to become one of the largest privately-held online gaming and technological studios in North America. Turbine has created some of the world’s most popular and award-winning online games and communities, including the 2007 PC Game of the Year, The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, Dungeons & Dragons Online™: Stormreach™ and Asheron's Call®.

Currently Turbine is poised for unprecedented growth and we are seeking uniquely talented individuals to join us on our mission to create the next generation of online entertainment that unifies the best of massively multiplayer online games, virtual worlds and social networks on and across both PC and Console platforms.

Description:

This position is responsible for the development and maintenance of the core technology for Turbine’s state-of-the-art MMP game engine. Candidates must be comfortable working closely in a professional work-environment with peers and managers. The candidate should possess strong communication skills and be able to discuss technical issues with non-technical people such as artists and designers.

Turbine is a leading developer of massively multiplayer online games and currently is developing Dungeons & Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online, two of the highest profile projects in the game industry. If you have strong engineering skills, a passion for video games, and enjoy making great games, this is a great opportunity!


Responsibilities:
• Develop new functionality and provide support for multiple live PC game services
• Develop new functionality and provide support for console game services
• Develop new functionality and provide support for internal initiatives
• Lead technical design discussions systems within engineering domain
• Analyzes requirements in order to design and implement modular systems
• Provide reliable and accurate time estimates for tasks
• Document systems thoroughly, both in terms of design and implementation
• Maintain significant familiarity within engineering domain
• Provide mentoring for other engineers
• Ensure system quality by performing code and design reviews
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the manager





Required Skills:
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience with C++
• Prior development experience on a shipped console game title (360/PS3)
• Familiarity with STL
• Experience with source control processes
• A passion for games and game technology

Pluses:
• 5+ years of game industry experience
• Massively multiplayer game experience
• Working with level editors and scripting systems of other games
• DirectX
• Havok
• Maya
• Perforce
• Perl
• SQL



You must submit an online application to be considered for the position. Reels received without an online application will not be reviewed. Please send reels to:
Human Resources,TurbineEntertainment, 60 Glacier Drive, Suite 4000, Westwood, MA 02090.