GAMEPLAY SOFTWARE ENGINEER - WWE2K   Who We Are: Visual Concepts is one of the world’s top game development studios with a flat, entrepreneurial, and non-corporate work environment. We have a proven track record having shipped over 100 multi-SKU titles to great critical acclaim. Our studios in Novato, CA; Agoura Hills, CA; Orange County, CA; Budapest, Hungary; Shanghai, China; and Seoul, South Korea, are committed to gaming and technical innovation and offer top candidates the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the smartest and most creative minds in the industry.   What We Need: The Gameplay Software Engineer will have a specific passion and aptitude for visualizing, implementing and tuning gameplay, animation and AI for sports videogames.  He or she should be deeply passionate about game play logic or animation systems and have prior applicable experience. WWE2K is an exciting and challenging game with a diverse set of features and requirements. You will gain knowledge of many different areas from a highly skilled team while working on cutting-edge technology.   Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit: At VC, initiative, smarts and passion make things happen, and politics simply don’t exist. In part because of all of this as well as VC’s consistent stability and success as a studio, some of the world’s smartest people come here and make VC a long term career. When interviewing, we look for intelligent problem solving with creative and constructive collaborative skills. We don’t write junk and we don’t hire people that do. We always push the metal to the limits, whether it’s servers or consoles, and we look for people that understand what’s going on under the hood. So the engineers we hire understand data structures, good programming practice, and they know where memory comes from and how CPUs work. Skills Required: Expertise with one or more of the following: Physics Animation systems Cameras Player controls AI systems Visual Scripting Excellent 3D math skills Strong design sensibilities Able to write clean, bug-free, well-documented and efficient code Able to work with a cross-disciplinary team Minimum Requirements: High proficiency in C++ object oriented programming Minimum of 2 years engineering experience with PC, Xbox One, or PS4 platform development Experience working with an existing codebase Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science preferred   #LI-VC          

HEAD OF TECHNICAL OPERATIONS - Montreal, Canada; Brno, Czech Republic; Remote       Who We Are:   2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment globally for console systems, handheld gaming devices and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets. 2K is a leading publisher of today’s most popular gaming genres and most well-known for critically acclaimed game franchises like NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Bioshock, Borderlands, Evolve, XCOM and the beloved Sid Meier’s Civilization.           What We Need:    This role will be responsible for the orchestration, change management and incident response for 2K’s production environment globally. A successful candidate will be able to manage teams in multiple locations while driving automation and optimize processes and procedures.          What You Will Do:   Develop and maintain processes through building change management and orchestrating rolling changes into production in for worldwide development teams Manage and develop a team 20+ employees across multiple locations  Partner with customer support and customer relations to provide communications to fans  Provide internal engineering teams a customer driven approach with transparency and metrics  Work with teams to integrate 2K technology into games in a CI/CD pipeline Oversee and mitigate outages that impact employees and games in production Maintaining all global infrastructure in public and private cloud and maximizing system up time everyday throughout the year         Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit:   10 plus years working with technical operations Management background 10+ years, experience managing distributed employee network preferred  Understanding of change management at a global scale STEM background  Global work experience  Understanding of ITIL and six-sigma Superior communication skills, written and verbal         #LI-2K    

LEAD TECHNICAL ANIMATOR – NOVATO, CA Who We Are: Hello! We’re Cloud Chamber: a collaborative team of inspired minds who create games together. We strive to make unique, entertaining, and thoughtful game experiences that engage the world.  We believe in the beauty and strength of diversity, in both the makeup of the studio and the nature of our thinking.  Our focus on open communication and overall well-being allows each of us to strive for excellence in our work, and happiness in our lives. Oh, almost forgot to mention that we’re currently making the next BioShock!! I know, right? Our passion and love for this iconic franchise is what brought us together. The thrill and responsibility of creating the next iteration of such a beloved game is what keeps us going.   What We Need: We are looking for a Lead Technical Animator to work side by side with the directors and leads to carry the vision forward. We want you to set the example, leading efforts to help us breathe life into a new and fantastical world. Together, we will set the stage for a stunning narrative and systems-driven experience. Who We Think Will Be a Great Fit  You have a love for inspiring others and tackling challenging technical assignments head on. With significant experience developing body and facial rigs for shipped AAA games, or feature films, you will be the guiding light for our character team.  Ideally you have Lead experience and have managed the character and rigging process across departmental disciplines before. You are someone who sets a shining example for positive collaborative process. You are self-motivated, have good communications skills, and possess a great team-player attitude. Minimum Requirements: Fluent in Maya with significant experience writing animation, rigging, and UI tools.  Motionbuilder experience a plus Proficient in one or more programming/GUI languages (Ex. Python, PySide/PyQt). C#/C++/Maya API experience a plus A strong understanding of form, gesture, and silhouette in regard to motion. An exceptional understanding of anatomy and caricature A strong understanding of traditional animation principles and how they can be applied to videogames Experience investigating new techniques, implementing them and training the team. You are up to date with current technology and software A love for research, reference, and documenting your findings to share with the team Ability to effectively translate creative ambition and onscreen feature requests into the achievable technical tasks required to realize them. Experience developing/shipping AAA First-Person shooters a plus!   What You Will Do: Create and maintain rigs (both body and facial) and skinning, for characters, vehicles and props Specify, develop, and maintain rigging and animation tools for getting animations from mocap to game Collaborate with Art and Engineering, drive research, workflows, and technologies for improved deformations, animation fidelity, and streamlined content creation processes Troubleshoot technical issues related to rigs, animations, and animation performance Mentor and manage other technical artists - ensuring that each has clear, actionable tasking and feedback Work with Production to identify blocking issues, develop milestone roadmaps, and participate in short-term sprint planning   If all of this sounds as exciting to you as it is to us, we’d love to meet you. Join us in creating worlds that move people.   #LI - CC