Amazon is all in on games. We believe the evolution that began with arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and esports of today, will continue to a future where everyone is a gamer and every gamer can create, compete, collaborate and connect with others at massive scale. If you share our belief that games will produce some of the future's most influential voices in media and art, come join us. At Amazon Lumberyard, we are building the game engine to power that future, leveraging the power of Amazon Web Services cloud, Twitch, and our digital and physical media publishing infrastructure available as raw material to forge a future filled with amazing experiences for players, broadcasters and creators. Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch. The Lumberyard team aspires to help game developers create the highest quality games, engage massive communities of fans, and connect their games to the vast compute and storage of
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) experience * 5+ years of large-scale engineering experience in a leadership capacity * 3+ years in a management capacity * Great communication skills and ability to work effectively on shared projects with designers, testers, engineers, and executives * Expertise in GPU hardware architecture, graphics APIs, and shading languages. * Deep experience with graphics performance profiling and optimization. * Lumberyard, Unity, Unreal, CryEngine or other 3D game engine development experience. * Strong computer science fundamentals in design, algorithms,