Senior Software Engineer - Engine UI
Senior Software Engineer - Engine UI
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Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer for Engine UI on Roblox you will work on our stateoftheart game engine building out User Interface capability across all of Roblox. This position enables our game developers to unlock accelerate and promote the creation of high quality performant UI that empowers meaningful interaction.
You Will:
- Develop and maintain our C engine code that powers the foundational UI features in the worlds most popular games as well as the Roblox App and Roblox Studio
- Author and review API proposals to expose UI capability to Luau our fast Luaderived scripting language that powers usergenerated creation
- Partner closely with our game developer community to help achieve their creative vision address concerns and resolve bugs
- Innovate upon our text rendering and layout pipelines used by Roblox Developers and Players millions of times a day interacting with our localization systems to provide engaging experiences worldwide
- Enhance and define layout schemes that dynamically adapt UI from mobile to 8k monitors and even to VR
- Profile and write performant C code creating scalable systems that drive featurerich experiences delivering highquality snappy UI across high end and low end devices
- Have fun learning what makes Roblox an amazing platform and place to work while contributing to industry leading technologies
You have:
- 4 years of professional development experience in C or related languages
- A performanceoriented mindset being familiar with profilers (such as VTune Prof etc. locating performance bottlenecks and using data to measure the impact of your changes
- Its a plus to have previously worked in areas like browser/layout engines game engines or other UI framework development systems. Examples: WebKit Chromium Blink Gecko Unreal Unity UIKit Android UI Framework Qt Yoga FreeType HarfBuzz or your own UI framework project!
- Written systems that can be intuitively understood by developers of varying disciplines such as engineers game designers and UI designers
- Familiar with systems level 3D math pointers templates and memory management
- Some familiarity with graphics concepts and APIs such as Vulkan Metal and/or DirectX
- Its a plus if you worked on a variety of platforms like gaming consoles and/or mobile devices
- You are rigorous in handling potential failure cases and diligent in automated testing
- Proficiency with industry leading content creation software is a plus (e.g. Autodesk Adobe Blender etc.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
