Staff Game Engine Engineer, Onebrief

• 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience developing game engines, simulation platforms, or other performance-critical systems
• Demonstrated experience owning the architecture and technical direction of large-scale engine, platform, or infrastructure systems
• Deep understanding of game engine architecture, including rendering, ECS frameworks, data-oriented design, tooling, asset pipelines, or runtime systems
• Proven track record leading complex technical initiatives that require alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Strong experience optimizing performance, scalability, reliability, and developer workflows in large codebases
• Experience establishing engineering standards, conducting architecture reviews, and influencing technical decision-making beyond your immediate team
• Strong systems-thinking skills with the ability to evaluate long-term platform tradeoffs and investment opportunities
• Familiarity with modern game engines such as Godot, Unity, Unreal Engine, or equivalent technologies
• Experience shipping and supporting complex live-service products
• Due to federal contract requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required for this position

Desirable

• As a Staff Game Engine Engineer, you'll play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of AtomEngine, our scalable cloud-based simulation and modeling platform
• You will serve as a technical leader for the engine team, driving architectural decisions, establishing engineering standards, and guiding the evolution of the core platform that enables simulation, AI, and modeling capabilities across the company
• In this role, you'll partner closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to balance near-term product needs with long-term platform investments, ensuring AtomEngine remains performant, scalable, and extensible as the platform grows
• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture of AtomEngine, ensuring the platform can support current and future simulation, AI, and modeling requirements
• Lead the design and evolution of core engine systems, frameworks, and developer tooling, establishing patterns that enable multiple teams to build effectively on the platform
• Own architectural decisions spanning engine runtime, editor tooling, performance infrastructure, and platform scalability
• Identify and drive high-leverage investments that improve performance, reliability, maintainability, and developer productivity across the engine ecosystem
• Lead complex technical initiatives that span multiple teams, aligning stakeholders and driving execution from concept through delivery
• Partner with simulation, AI, platform, and product engineering teams to ensure engine capabilities effectively support higher-level systems and organizational priorities
• Establish and champion engineering standards, architectural principles, and development best practices across the engine codebase
• Serve as a technical mentor and force multiplier for other engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing
• Proactively identify technical risks, architectural bottlenecks, and scaling challenges, developing pragmatic strategies to address them before they become constraints
• Balance short-term delivery objectives with long-term platform strategy, making thoughtful tradeoffs that maximize both engineering velocity and system health