Senior Game Engine Lead - Real-Time Physics

Worldscape; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Medical, Dental and Vision insurance

401k plan

Flexible time off

Job summary

Worldscape is seeking a senior physics engineering leader to guide real-time simulation for distributed data and intelligent agents. You will own physics architecture, data models, and solver strategies across engine and simulation systems, driving performance and reliability at scale.

You will collaborate with art, design, AI, and platform teams to deliver physics-driven gameplay, advanced rendering pipelines, and robust tooling.

Qualifications

• Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics, Mathematics (or equivalent).
• 10+ years in real-time/game physics engineering; 2+ shipped titles with substantial physics ownership.
• Expertise in modern C++ and data-oriented design.
• Experience with collision detection techniques and physics integration with animation and rendering pipelines.
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead physics architecture team: define data models, simulation loops, solvers, and integration points.
• Deliver core physics features including collision detection, vehicle dynamics, and atmospheric physics.
• Build physics-driven gameplay interactions, authoring tools, and runtime hooks.
• Own performance: profile, optimize, budget frame time and memory; drive multi-threading and SIMD efforts.
• Establish test suites, validation practices, and robust, stable simulations; manage edge cases.
• Develop tools, visualizers, and pipelines to accelerate designer iteration and QA.
• Collaborate with back-end, AI, data pipelines, and platform teams; communicate trade-offs.
• Provide mentorship, code reviews, and set coding standards across teams.
• Oversee real-time rendering pipelines and shader work; ensure engine integrations.
• Guide junior engineers and ensure high craftsmanship; manage subsystems like lighting and materials.

Skills

C++ expert

data-oriented design

memory management

profiling/debugging

rigid-body dynamics

collision detection

animation integration

multi-threading

SIMD/vectorization

cross-disciplinary leadership

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Physics/Math

Tools

VTune

PIX

Nsight

RenderDoc

HLSL

GLSL

ShaderLab

Shader Graph

Job description

Worldscape is seeking a senior physics engineering leader to guide real-time simulation for distributed data and intelligent agents. You will own physics architecture, data models, and solver strategies across engine and simulation systems, driving performance and reliability at scale.

You will collaborate with art, design, AI, and platform teams to deliver physics-driven gameplay, advanced rendering pipelines, and robust tooling.