About the role
Job Details
- Work Location: Hybrid / Onsite (Los Angeles area)
- Company: Naughty Dog (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
About the Role
For nearly 40 years, Naughty Dog has been crafting best-selling, critically acclaimed games that constantly push the boundaries of narrative, gameplay, and technology. Naughty Dog recently released The Last of Us Part II Remastered as well as a current generation remake of The Last of Us Part I for the PS5. The Last of Us Part I and Part II are now available for the first time on PC. The studio is currently working on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
Naughty Dog games have long been lauded for their evocative, character-driven stories and attention to detail. The studio is committed to innovation within games and has curated some of the top creative and technically innovative minds in the industry, welcoming a diverse pool of candidates who bring a broad range of cultural and life experiences.
Due to a small core tech team, you will interact with multiple departments, game systems, and pipeline technologies. As a core tech programmer, you will experience total project ownership: talking directly to artists and designers, and devising and building the technology they use. This role involves varied and challenging responsibilities requiring a high level of adaptability and a taste for discovering cutting-edge technologies.
What You Will Do
- Tackling complex problems: Design, develop, and support technology in the production pipeline from DCC tools, throughout the asset management and conditioning pipeline, down to the supporting runtime game systems.
- Collaboration: Work with and enable artists and designers to create incredible assets throughout all stages of production, with an eye on constantly improving creation workflows, user experience, and performance of tools and technologies.
- Ownership: Own a major feature vertical or system.
- Codebase Management: Navigate and constantly improve an extensive code base.
- Evolving Responsibilities: Responsibilities may evolve based on needs.
What Skills You Will Use
- Minimum of 7 years working in the video game industry
- Minimum of 1 shipped AAA game
- B.S. in Computer Science and/or Mathematics or equivalent work experience
- Excellent 3D math skills (especially linear algebra and vector math)
- Extensive experience in creating one or more of the following PC applications in C++ or C#:
- Level editor
- Art prototype catalogue/database
- Animation/cinematic editor
- Material/shader editor
- DCC plug-ins
- Build tools
- Data messaging tools
- Lighting tools or equivalent software
- Experience with PC application programming
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Bonus Skills
- Experience with console programming
- Experience with databases and query optimizations
- Experience with a scripting language
- Experience using DCC applications
Application Process & Equal Opportunity
- Candidates should expect to be given a technical interview as part of the Naughty Dog application process.
- Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
- Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
Compensation and Benefits
- Estimated USA Base Pay Range (Los Angeles area): $144,200 — $180,200 USD
- Additional Compensation: This role may be eligible for additional compensation packages that include annual bonuses and other incentive plans.