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News - Get a job: Mothership Entertainment is hiring a Technical Director - xSicKxBot - 04-04-2018
Get a job: Mothership Entertainment is hiring a Technical Director
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgamedev.win/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/get-a-job-mothership-entertainment-is-hiring-a-technical-director.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry!</p>
<p>Here is just one of the <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/jobs/">many, many positions</a> being advertised right now.</p>
<p><strong>Location: Austin, Texas</strong></p>
<p>Mothership Entertainment is seeking an experienced Technical Director to lead our engineering team. The Technical Director will take responsibility for developing, maintaining, and optimizing the next title in the award-winning Aven Colony franchise.</p>
<p>Mothership Entertainment is a plucky micro-studio located in northwest Austin, TX, in the Jollyville neighborhood. We focus on creating highly polished strategy game experiences with a tiny team and a close-knit studio culture.</p>
<p><strong>The Technical Director will be responsible for:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Assisting in the development, maintenance, and optimization of the next game in the Aven franchise</li>
<li>Spearheading the port of the next Aven franchise game to other desktop and console platforms as needed</li>
<li>Setting and maintaining coding standards and code integrity</li>
<li>Developing new features and refactoring existing tech as needed</li>
<li>Refining the art pipeline and specifying and maintaining benchmarks and constraints for art development</li>
<li>Assisting artists with technical issues as needed</li>
<li>Managing and growing the engineering team</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Desired skills:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Excellent C++ programming skills</li>
<li>Excellent communication skills</li>
<li>5+ years professional experience in the game industry</li>
<li>5+ years professional experience as a software engineer</li>
<li>Strong debugging skills</li>
<li>Strong optimization and performance profiling skills</li>
<li>Strong multi-threaded programming skills</li>
<li>Unreal engine and Blueprint experience</li>
<li>Console development experience</li>
<li>A passion for making and playing games</li>
<li>Work well in a cooperative environment</li>
<li>Excellent verbal and written communications skills.</li>
<li>Self-motivated and willing to pitch in on many areas of development</li>
</ul>
<p>Interested? <a href="http://jobs.gamasutra.com/job/technical-director-austin-texas-32803">Apply now</a>.</p>
<p>Whether you’re just starting out, looking for something new, or just seeing what’s out there, the Gamasutra Job Board is the place where game developers move ahead in their careers.</p>
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