Technical Director

Responsibilities:

• Develop a technological strategy to not only meet the goals of each game design but also to grow the technological capabilities of the engineering department based on the company's vision
• Research, investigate, and evaluate technology and middleware solutions, providing recommendations to project leadership
• Provide high level planning support and management to the engineering team while working with the Lead Programmer and other leads to ensure goals and deadlines are met
• Provide ongoing monitoring, recommendations, and feedback on project milestones as delivered
• Develop technical constraints and specifications to ensure target performance on each platform is achieved and work with each department continually to ensure those targets are reached.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the engineering team
• Perform hands on programming ranging from R&D to implementing features and systems within their area of expertise.
• Develop plans for growing the abilities and effectiveness of the individual programmers
• Support project teams day to day, helping to identify technical risks and issues and provide solutions
• Identify internal and external dependencies and manage necessary outside support
• Maintain communications with all team members, team leads and executive management, internally and externally
• Keep up to date with industry related technical developments and feed that knowledge back to the leadership team and throughout the company.
• Suggest and lead process improvement initiatives
• Oversee the technical design documentation process
• Oversee the hiring of programmers including participating in resume reviews, technical screens, and active recruiting.
• Oversee the creation of a streamlined and effective build creation process

Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electronics, or other software engineering related qualification
• 5+ years of applicable games industry experience
• Mastery of C++ in a game development environment and experience with several other languages
• Extensive knowledge in a broad range of software engineering areas with a mastery in at least one area (AI, graphics, networking, physics, etc).
• Must have management and project planning experience at least at the Lead Programmer level or above for at least 1 shipped title
• Strong communication skills
• Minimum of 2 shipped products from beginning to end with technical credit

Preference to applicants with:
• 7+ years industry experience
• Masters degree in Computer Science or applicable field
• Multiplayer game development experience
• Unreal Engine 3 experience
• Shipped at least one title from beginning to end as Technical Director

Tripwire Interactive offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package (401K, health care, quarterly profit share) and a professional but non-corporate environment. This position is full-time onsite at our studio in Roswell, GA. Please submit your cover letter with resume and salary requirements to jobs@tripwireinteractive.com.

This job listing originated on Gamasutra.com, the game industry's leader.