Principal Software Engineer, Engine UI
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Principal Software Engineer for Engine UI on Roblox you will work on our state-of-the-art 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 Lua-derived scripting language that powers user-generated 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 feature-rich experiences delivering high-quality 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:
- 8 years of professional development experience in C or related languages
- A performance-oriented mindset being familiar with profilers (such as VTune μProf etc.) locating performance bottlenecks and using data to measure the impact of your changes
- 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 React FreeType HarfBuzz or your own UI framework project! (Preferred)
- Written systems that can be intuitively understood by developers of varying disciplines such as engineers game designers and UI designers
- Familiarity with systems level 3D math pointers templates and memory management
- Some familiarity with graphics concepts and APIs such as Vulkan Metal and/or DirectX
- Worked on a variety of platforms like gaming consoles and/or mobile devices. (Preferred)
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!
