Senior Gameplay Systems Engineer

Who We Are

Founded in 2023 2K Sports Lab is the newest stand alone studio at 2K looking to push game development boundaries to bring 2Ks next groundbreaking sports franchise to life. Were building a world-class team at our new Vancouver BC location where our goal is to deliver an exceptional experience through bold ideas technical excellence and creative collaboration. Were seeking passionate and driven professionals across all areas of game development to help shape this ambitious vision. If youre interested in tackling unique challenges and think you have what it takes to level up our team we encourage you to apply!

What We Need

We are seeking a highly qualified and passionate Senior Software Engineer to drive the development of our next-generation large-scale actor simulation technology at 2K Sports Lab. This is a critical role responsible for building the foundational systems that bring dense believable and performant worlds to life specifically focusing on crowd NPC and pedestrian systems. The ideal candidate possesses deep low-level C expertise and significant experience working within the Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) environment.

What Youll Do

• Architect and Implement highly performant scalable simulation systems (Crowd NPC) that support thousands of concurrent active agents in the game world.
• Develop and maintain our character pipeline and runtime
• Build Level of Detail (LOD) systems and culling techniques to gracefully handle the computational load of distant or non-critical actors without compromising visual fidelity.
• Collaborate with AI and Design teams to translate high-level design goals into robust maintainable and fun player-facing features.

What Will Make You A Great Fit

• 5 years of professional game development or relevant simulation engineering experience.
• Exceptional command of modern C (C17/20) and a deep understanding of memory management performance profiling and optimization on modern hardware.
• In-depth hands-on experience and familiarity with the Unreal Engine 4/5 source code.
• Proven track record building and scaling Agent Behavior systems preferably using UE5s MassEntity/Smart Objects or equivalent proprietary technology.
• Expertise in Animation Pipeline Engineering including knowledge of IK motion warping and efficient data structures for skeletal mesh updates.

Beneficial Qualifications

• Experience with machine learning or procedural generation techniques for agent behavior or world population.
• Previous experience shipping a AAA title developed on Unreal Engine.

The pay range for this position in British Columbia at the start of employment is expected to be between CAD 96400 - CAD 142660per year. However actual pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates such as job-related knowledge skills experience and other objective business considerations. If hired the company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

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