On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. We are leading with innovation, as highlighted by bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC, bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, and our recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players. The Xbox Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is a specialized engineering team within Microsoft’s Gaming division and our goal is to help empower game developers to realize their dreams on Microsoft gaming platforms. Our team strives to understand the technological challenges, motivations, and goals of game developers, and works across our platform and the industry to create solutions, enhance and advance game technology, and improve the developer experience.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience with C OR C++
- Technical expertise in real-time rendering
- Proficient in graphics APIs and shader languages, such as Direct3D and HLSL
- Proficient with performance analysis tools such as PIX, RenderDoc, NVIDIA Nsight, AMD Radeon or Intel GPA
- Technical skills in any one of various graphics specialist fields such as GPU architecture, ray tracing, general compute, physical based rendering, etc.
- Familiarity with modern game engines such as Unity, Unreal, or equivalent
- Comfortable investigating and debugging code
Responsibilities
- Work in partnership with game developers and Microsoft platform teams across various disciplines to solve technical problems
- Conduct graphics performance analysis and provide optimization guidance
- Explore the latest graphics innovations and share recommendations with game developers
- Collaborate across teams to drive change on behalf of developer needs
- Research and incubate innovative ideas to advance the Microsoft gaming environment
Other
- 3 days / week in-office
- Travel 0-25%
- Individual Contributor
- Full-Time
- Good verbal and written communication skills
