Principal C++ Engineer

tobspr Games GmbH; München; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote (Germany)

Flexible working hours

Paid overtime

Hardware budget

Growth allowance (courses/books)

Focus days for learning

Yearly team gathering

Yearly salary review with 2% raise

Job summary

tobspr Games GmbH is seeking a Principal C++ Engineer to own the factory simulation for an upcoming title. The game uses Unreal Engine 5, and the simulation will be a self-contained, high-performance module written in native C++.

You will design a deterministic, scalable sim to support hundreds of thousands of player-placed buildings in a cooperative (co-op) session. You will join early on a new game team, collaborating with the Engineering Team Lead and Game Design to shape the architecture,

Qualifications

• Experience in professional C++ environments where you have architected, implemented, and maintained performant modules which are built on by other engineers, and lived with the consequences of your design choices
• Deep knowledge of data-oriented design, multithreading, and performance, including CPU profiling and applying algorithmic complexity-based analysis to select the right data structures
• Built a deterministic or lockstep system, or can show how you'd approach one
• A track record of mentoring engineers and making architectural decisions in writing that others could follow and challenge

Responsibilities

• Design and build a deterministic factory simulation that scales to hundreds of thousands of player-placed buildings
• Own the sim architecture: data layout, tick model, threading, and serialisation format
• Work with the Networking Engineer so the sim and co-op are designed together, not bolted on later
• Set and meet the CPU performance budget for the sim on our minimum specification target
• Review code and mentor other engineers on C++ and architecture

Skills

C++

Deterministic sim

Multithreading

Data-oriented design

Architectural leadership

Mentoring engineers

Unreal Engine

Tools

Mass Entity

C++ profiling

Unreal ECS

Job description

About the role

We're looking for a Principal C++ Engineer to own the factory simulation of our next game. The game is built in Unreal Engine 5, but the simulation will be self-contained and written in raw C++.

Players will place hundreds of thousands of machines, belts, pipes, and more across a large world, and every one of them has to deterministically update on every player's device in a co-op session.

You'll design that simulation module from the ground up as one of the first engineers on a new game team, working closely with the Engineering Team Lead and the Game Design department.

Your responsibilities

• Design and build a deterministic factory simulation that scales to hundreds of thousands of player-placed buildings
• Own the sim architecture: data layout, tick model, threading, and serialisation format
• Work with the Networking Engineer so the sim and co-op are designed together, not bolted on later
• Set and meet the CPU performance budget for the sim on our minimum specification target
• Review code and mentor other engineers on C++ and architecture

About you

You will likely have:

• Experience in professional C++ environments where you have architected, implemented, and maintained performant modules which are built on by other engineers, and lived with the consequences of your design choices
• Deep knowledge of data-oriented design, multithreading, and performance, including CPU profiling and applying algorithmic complexity-based analysis to select the right data structures
• Built a deterministic or lockstep system, or can show how you'd approach one
• A track record of mentoring engineers and making architectural decisions in writing that others could follow and challenge

In addition, you may have:

• 2+ shipped game titles
• Worked on a factory, automation or simulation-heavy game
• Worked in Unreal Engine, especially with Mass Entity or a custom ECS in Unreal

If you match most of this and the problem excites you, please apply.

What we offer

• Fully Remote: We employ directly inside Germany
• Flexible working hours!
• Paid overtime, on the rare occasions it happens
• A hardware budget to ensure you have the ergonomic setup and hardware you need to work comfortably
• A monthly personal growth allowance for courses, books or other learning material
• Focus days to research or learn new skills
• A yearly team gathering to meet and collaborate in person
• A yearly salary review to keep your pay in line with the market, and an automatic increase of 2% per year