Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Optimize GPU, CPU, memory, streaming, rendering, and platform performance for a multiplatform Unreal Engine 5 AAA game. Build cook and runtime systems supporting scalable content across PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X|S, and minimum-specification PC. Define performance standards with rendering engineers and technical artists, implement platform-specific rendering features, analyze shaders and pipelines, and resolve technical requirements for 60+ FPS quality and 120+ FPS performance modes.

Leads backend engineering teams building and operating studio-hosted services for a live multiplayer game. Owns service architecture, infrastructure, APIs, deployment, monitoring, incident response, performance, disaster recovery, and platform integrations. Manages planning, hiring, engineering standards, releases, CI/CD, and on-call operations while contributing code and technical designs. Requires extensive server-side development experience, backend leadership on a shipped AAA title, and expertise in scalable distributed systems and AWS production services.

Develop and optimize advanced animation systems and runtime character performance in Unreal Engine 5. Responsibilities include authoring Animation Blueprints, procedural animation systems, Motion Matching, locomotion, cloth, IK, and secondary dynamics. The role diagnoses issues across Maya and the game engine, improves pipelines and performance, collaborates across disciplines, documents workflows, and mentors team members supporting a AAA game production.

Develop and optimize shaders, master materials, and technical art pipelines in Unreal Engine. Establish shader standards, build validation tools, profile performance, resolve content pipeline issues, and create reusable documentation and best practices. Collaborate across art, engineering, design, animation, and lighting teams to solve production challenges and deliver visually rich experiences across console, PC, and mobile platforms.

As a Senior Rendering Engineer, you will modify shaders, develop new rendering technologies, integrate third-party solutions, and optimize performance to enhance the gaming experience.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance C/C++ graphics code and HLSL shaders for NBA 2K. Implement rendering technologies, optimize GPU performance, improve VFX, lighting, and post-processing, collaborate with art and design teams, and support system-wide rendering technology upgrades.

Design and implement player-facing gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5, collaborating with design, art, animation, and audio. Architect features for player verbs, camera, weapons, and 3C systems, identify and mitigate technical risks, maintain code quality, documentation, and testing, and debug complex gameplay issues to help realize the creative vision for BioShock.

The Expert UI Engineer will lead UI development for a AAA multiplayer game, focusing on performance, accessibility, and certification compliance while mentoring a team of engineers.

Lead online services for a AAA free-to-play cross-platform game: set technical vision, manage backend and build teams, own release management, launch readiness, observability and incident response, partner with product and analytics to deliver experimentation, telemetry, remote config, and engagement tooling, and direct frontend systems like authentication, matchmaking, social features, commerce, and player safety.

The Senior Engineer will work on backend architecture for NBA 2K, focusing on online features, scalability, and high-performance backend services. Responsibilities include optimizing distributed systems and developing efficient database structures.