Lead C++ UI Programmer [Rainbow Six Siege] (f/m/d)

Düsseldorf - Full-time - 744000002703650

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Rainbow Six Siege  
Rainbow Six Siege is the acclaimed first-person shooter franchise. Inspired by the reality of counter terrorist operatives across the world, Rainbow Six Siege invites players to master the art of destruction. Intense close quarters confrontations, high lethality, tactics, team play, and explosive action are at the center of the experience. 

What you will do:

You will be working with our UI implementation team in laying the foundation and architecture of the user interface for our online systems. Your systems should be cleanly designed, favor simplicity, and be flexible enough to allow for future expansion.

You will be working as a part of our feature teams, specifically focusing on the ingame Shop and other features related to Monetization within Rainbow Six Siege.

• Collaborate with artists and designers in delivering world-class user interface systems.
• Mentor, grow and lead the other UI programmers within the Shop team.
• Work on User Interface features from conception to final implementation.
• Improve and extend existing game UI and UI framework.
• Collaborate with architects, technical leads and other teams working on Rainbow Six Siege around the world.

Qualifications

What you bring:

• Master or Bachelor degree in (Applied) Computer Science or similar qualifications with a strong technical background.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong C++ skills.
• Leadership experience as team lead or people manager.
• Good understanding of the MVVM paradigm.
• Good understanding of modern Software Engineering.
• Excellent communication skills, and desire to work as a team-player.
• Self-direction and motivation.
• Fluent in English.
• You are open to relocate to Düsseldorf, Germany.

* A strong interest in the video game industry is a plus

Technical Animator (f/m/d)

Düsseldorf - Full-time - 744000014533285

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JOB DESCRIPTION

As our new Technical Animator (f/m/d) at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, you will have the opportunity to craft stunning character and creature rigs while creating tools used by the art, technical art and animation teams. 

What you will do: 

• Develop and support character/creature motion and deformation systems.
• Deformation setup of character rigs and implementation into the game engine.
• Collaborate with modelers to create models which meets technical requirements.
• Collaborate with animators to design motion controls and tools.
• Develop tools & scripts to streamline the setup process.
• Daily support for Art and Tech teams.
• Cooperate with other Ubisoft teams all around the world on a daily basis.

Qualifications

What you bring:

• Experience working on shipped titles for consoles and/or PCs, as Technical Artist (Rigger) or Technical Animator.
• Good knowledge of Python; (C#, C++ a plus). 
• Good knowledge of Maya, and/or MotionBuilder, 3ds Max. 
• Advanced rigging and skinning knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge of tools used in the parametric creation of nodes. 
• Extensive knowledge in animation systems and State-Machines.
• Good understanding of human, facial and animal anatomy. 
• Solid understanding of art optimization techniques. 
• Experience and understanding of art/animation pipelines for game engines. 
• Ability to think creatively to overcome technical challenges. 
• Good oral and written English.

What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience and skills.
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us.

Portfolio:

It is required that you submit a portfolio of your work with your application. You may do so by providing a link to an online portfolio (preferred), or attaching documents to your resume.

All portfolios must contain a detailed shot breakdown of the work. It must be very clear what you, the applicant, are responsible for in your reel, portfolio, screenshots etc.

The portfolio should contain the following:

• Code/Scripts samples.
• Videos which show tool functions.
• Rig examples plus function.

Lead Technical Animator (f/m/d)

Düsseldorf - Full-time - 743999977887259

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JOB DESCRIPTION

As our new Lead Technical Animator (f/m/d) at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, you will lead, motivate and develop your team of Technical Animators and Technical Artists to push the visual and technical quality to the next level. You will be responsible for developing, supporting and documenting our animation systems, rigging, pipelines and techniques used by the Art, Technical Art and Animation teams. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with the Animation Director, Art Director and other leads to ensure high quality in-game animations that are in line with the artistic vision.

What you will do: 

• Build a strong and versatile team of technical experts as part of a AAA development team
• Design, implementation and improvement of our animation state machines and runtime solutions
• Develop, test and maintain complex animation systems in conjunction with animators, gameplay programmers and other team members as required
• Recognize inefficiencies and pipeline issues and identify solutions
• Help improving the tools and pipeline that are used for animation, rigging and implementing of animations in collaboration with our internal engine programmers
• Assist in the design, integration and validation of animation assets
• Guide/Coordinate Animation teams on demanding tasks

Qualifications

What you bring:

• 5 years of experience as senior or lead in a similar role during all stages of a video-game production and at least one shipped AAA title
• Excellent practical understanding of animation logic: node graphs, animation trees and similar engine editors and technologies
• High level expertise of 3D engines and in game engine implementation of animation features, including ragdoll physics

* Experience with character action focused games is a plus

What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience and skills 
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us 

Please provide a portfolio with examples of your previous work/projects - be sure to check the link is working when applying. The portfolio should contain:

• Scripts or application examples, code samples
• Examples of rigs, visual effects, animation, procedural visualization

Level Designer (f/m/d)

Düsseldorf - Full-time - 744000018926735

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JOB DESCRIPTION

As our new Level Designer (f/m/d) at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, you will be responsible for setting up and maintaining various locations in an open world, using proprietary tools with the goal of creating interesting game-play situations based on the creative vision. Environment and layout aesthetic sensibilities will help a lot in this role.

What you will do: 

• Document and create levels according to the artistic, creative and design visions. 
• Present ideas to interdependent teams (conceptualize and communicate engaging gameplay experiences). 
• Prototype different scenarios and gameplay elements to validate their pertinence and effect.
• Use integration tools to create explorable and rich gaming spaces.
• Layout your environment in detail (place activities, non-player characters, encounters, events, and other features that advance the game narratively).
• Use scripting tools to integrate narrative sequences and quest gameplay.
• Balance artistic aspects with metrics and technical constraints.
• Collaborate with level artists and animators to breathe life and beauty into your created space (composition, structure, architecture) and encourage interactions.
• Cooperate with mission designers to ensure playability and consistency.
• Develop your design based on comments from play testers and cross-functional team members (iterate, debug and optimize).

Qualifications

What you bring:

• 2+ years experience in game level design and production or equivalent (experience with action games is a plus).
• At least one shipped title (AAA games experience is a plus).
• A strong level, environment or mission design portfolio.
• A good sense of 3D game space and environmental storytelling.
• A good understanding of narrative and mission/quest flow.
• Good knowledge of level design fundamentals as it relates to modern action open-world games.
• Experience with game engines (e.g. Unreal Engine, Unity, etc.).
• Experience using visual scripting tools.
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Experience in playing and analyzing open-world action-adventure games.
• Good critical and analytical skills; understand and adapt to received feedback.

What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience and skills.
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us. 
• Please provide a portfolio with examples of your previous work/projects - be sure to check the link is working when applying.

Senior 3D Programmer [Beyond Good And Evil 2] (f/m/d)

Mainz - Full-time - 744000027602411

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Beyond Good And Evil 2 is an action-adventure sci-fi RPG set in the same universe as Ubisoft’s original cult classic. You can now join our crew at Ubisoft Mainz to help us shape this amazing project with cutting edge graphics.

As a Senior 3D Programmer, your mission will be to develop and maintain graphics techniques within the engine to create the best visuals possible.

What you will do:

• Bring console level graphics quality to new platforms
• Optimize existing rendering technology
• Ability to own and drive development of selected features together with a team
• Collaborate with other Ubisoft studios to extend the capabilities of our in-house rendering technology
• Develop rendering systems that enhance the visual quality, are scalable and fit into defined budgets
• Establish and maintain workflows that allows the content teams to use the developed systems

Qualifications

What you bring:

• Experience as a graphics programmer or similar role in at least one AAA title
• Knowledge of a broad range of rendering algorithms, special effects and related technology
• Knowledge of low-level graphics APIs (D3D12/Vulkan/AGC/NVN/Metal) and shading languages (HLSL/GLSL/PSSL)
• Hands on experience with a variety of graphics profiling and debugging tools (PIX, Razor, nSight)
• Strong skills in C/C++
• Debugging and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate with the content teams to reach the highest possible visual quality
• Being a team player by heart
• Self-direction and motivation
• Excellent communication and good English skills
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent experience will be a plus
• Practical Experience with UI Rendering will be a plus
• Practical Experience with Volumetric Rendering will be a plus
• Experience with Console Development and Optimization will be a plus
   

  What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us
• Any relevant code/work samples you can provide are highly appreciated 

Local IT Technician (f/m/d)

Berlin - Full-time - 744000022356505

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JOB DESCRIPTION

What you will do: 

• Offer on-site and remote support to end users within the local responsibility
• Incidents and Requests management
• Manage local infrastructure (example, servers and network) where required
• Ensure approved security best practices and policies are being applied
• Provisioning and maintaining the employees work environment
• Maintaining the local meeting room configurations
• Interact with external vendors regarding support requests
• Strive to continually improve IT policies and processes
• Provides support for events & meetings
• Maintain the IT asset inventory
• Build and update documentation

Qualifications

What you bring:

Relevant experience

2+ years of experience in technical support to end users

Training

• Relevant education in Information Technology or equivalent experience
• CompTIA A+ or comparable (Microsoft, Networking, Virtualization etc.) certification – nice to have

Knowledge

• Expertise in PC and laptop support and latest hardware news
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft operating systems
• Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite
• Very good English skills (spoken and written)
• Very good German skills (spoken and written)
• Good knowledge of networking, cabling
• Good knowledge of SCCM / Intune and Active Directory (Azure / OnPrem)

  Skills

• Great sense of customer service
• Good organizational skills

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of mobile support and MDM
• Knowledge of conferencing and multimedia equipment
• Linux / MacOS knowledge
• Knowledge of ITIL methodologies