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Game Developer â ROBLOX â Fast Growing, VC-Backed Startup ROBLOX
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About ROBLOX: ROBLOX is a leading user-generated gaming site, where players use interactive components to create highly immersive online games. We draw over one billion page views and 21 million in-game hours each month (making us one of the largest gaming destinations on the internet). ROBLOX is backed by two top-tier VC's and is growing rapidly.
You will work with a team of industry veterans and brilliant upstarts to usher in gaming's next big thing: a platform for user-generated content. We have a proven business model and are producing eight-figure revenues. Check out our latest news at http://blog.roblox.com.
About the Job:
--Supercharge our physics engine, which distributes physics calculations among all game clients. ROBLOX is a networked physics super-computer; the more players in a game, the more physics simulation power is available to make highly interactive and emergent games.
--Enhance our rendering engine to support fully dynamic lighting in a hybrid voxel/physics world with millions of parts. Our cross-platform rendering system is dynamically scalable and supports hardware ranging from iPad's to top of line PC GPU's.
--Harden the ROBLOX client against in-game exploits and hacks as we surpass 3 million monthly players.
--Optimize throughput of our networking code, allowing us to ultimately scale to 100's of players in a fully constructible environment. Leverage compression, spatial locality and adaptive throttling to improve gameplay regardless of bandwidth.
--Ship exciting new features every week.
Requirements:
--A minimum of 4 years in a production environment using C/C++
--BS or MS in CS, EE, Mathematics or equivalent education or experience
--Demo examples of your past work
--Experience with rendering, physics, security, networking or cross-platform software development
--Familiarity with STL, Boost, template programming, data structures, algorithms
--Extra credit: collision detection, assembly programming, parallel programming, tbb, OpenMP
Compensation:
ROBLOX provides a competitive compensation package including stock options, health insurance benefits and a 401k program.
To Apply:
Please email your resume to jobs@roblox.com, title "Game Developer". To view all of our current opportunities and learn more about ROBLOX, please go to: http://corp.roblox.com/jobs
| Location: | San Mateo, CA 94401 United States |
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| Full Time | |
| Engineering / Product Dev / Science |
THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
ROBLOX
Investors: Altos Ventures, First Round CapitalAll Jobs: at ROBLOX
| Web Site: | blog.roblox.com |
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| Headquarters: | San Mateo, CA 94401 United States |
| Employees: | 41-100 |
| 2006 | |
| Industry: | Software |
| Join the team at ROBLOX and help us in our mission: allow anyone in the world to create and play amazing 3D games. ROBLOX employees have built a global gaming cloud, a distributed physics engine, and a business with strong annual growth. We are looking for exceptional people to take our 3D game platform to the highest level of technological sophistication. ROBLOX is funded by top venture capital firms First Round Capital and Altos Ventures, and we continue to hire aggressively to support our growth and vision. We are motivated by significant opportunities to expand our audience, and to offer ROBLOX games on multiple platforms. |
