Join the Petroglyph Family
At Petroglyph, we are dedicated to making top quality games that are extremely fun and innovative, and we are always looking for new team members who share our passion. We work hard and we play hard. In fact, we're the best ping pong players on this side of the Mississippi. Don't believe us? Bring your paddle!
Server Programmer
This position is for a senior software engineer who will focus on network communication, cross-server player interaction, persistence mechanisms, anti-cheating and security measures, server scalability and load balancing, optimization, and implementation of new game features.
The senior server engineer will work closely with the lead engineer to development and implement the server architecture.
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Requirements:
- 5+ years prior game development experience, with at least one shipped online game
- Expertise in using C/C++
- Experience with distributed systems
- Experience with Client/Server architectures
- Experience with complex intra-server messaging, multithreading, bandwidth optimization
- Understanding of scalability and security issues
- Experience with anti-cheating measures
Desired:
- Shipped at least one MMO.
- Database knowledge
Applicants must submit a cover letter, resume via
E-mail. No phone calls please.
DBA / DB Programmer
This position is for a midlevel DBA / DB programmer who will focus on stored procedure writing, Logical and physical database design, as well as develop and support source code for communication with various databases.
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Requirements:
- 2+ years working with one or more of the following: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, or Postgres
- 3+ years experience with Logical and Physical database design
- 3+ years writing database stored procedures and/or working native database libraries
- C/C++
- Understanding of scalability and security issues
Desired:
- Shipped at least one MMO.
- C#
- JAVA
Applicants must submit a cover letter, resume via
E-mail. No phone calls please.
Senior Technical Artist
Petroglyph is looking for an exceptionally skilled Senior Technical Artist to welcome to our diverse and creative team. The ideal candidate has excellent art modeling skills with technical experience working on game tools and pipelines. The candidate must be fully versed in 3DS Max and ready for technical and creative challenges while working closely with the art and programming staff.
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Responsibilities:
- Ability to create low- and high-polygon environment objects, characters, and other models based on art direction and gameplay requirements in 3DS Max
- Helps determine new production pipelines when necessary
- Document technical aspects of tools and production pipeline
- Mentoring artists on technical aspects of tools and processes
- Develop art production tools in conjunction with programmers
- Provide technical support for the art team
- Technical Liaison for external development teams
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- Outgoing and solution oriented
- Management skills that may be utilized for a small technical art team
- Major role in the processing and trouble shooting of assets in the game
Required Qualifications:
- 3 years experience within the gaming industry
- Experience in creating maxscripts
- Familiarity with scripting languages
- Excellent knowledge of various game development tools (e.g. 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, custom tools, including rigging and weighting.)
- Expert skills in 3DS Max
- Exceptional work ethic with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in team environment
- Ability to rig
- Ability to communicate effectively with all disciplines of a game development studio; Art, Programming and Design teams
Desired Qualifications:
- Understanding of animation principles and 3D character animation
- Strong desire to create exceptional games
- Experience in creating particle FX
Applicants must submit a cover letter, resume via
E-mail. No phone calls please.
Senior 3D Artist
Petroglyph is looking for an exceptionally skilled Senior 3D Artist to welcome to our diverse and creative team. The ideal candidate has experience creating all aspects of video game art, including modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation, with at least one primary focus. The candidate must be fully versed in 3DS Max and ready for technical and creative challenges while working closely with the art and programming staff.
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Responsibilities:
- Create exceptional 3D Models complete with texture mapping and Normal Mapping.
- Excellent ability to make LODs
- Models must look exceptional while working within the technical specs of our games
- Skill level is considered ‘masterful' in one or more specific areas of Game Art development
- The candidate is self-directed and self motivated to make great games
- Takes initiative and resolves technical and creative issues as they arise
- Communicates solutions to their Lead and to the Artists involved with that particular process
- Experience in Leading (or sub-leading) a video game team (for potential growth within Petroglyph)
Requirements:
- 4+ years industry experience using 3DS Max and Photoshop
- Expert in creating efficient low polygon models
- Ability to create high-quality PhotoShop textures and Normal Maps
- Must work well in a team environment and be open to direction
- Have passion in making great games
Desired:
- Have shipped a AAA title as a Senior Artist or Lead Artist
- Experience with proprietary tools is a plus
- Adaptability to learn proprietary tools and have a strong technical background using art tools
- Drawing ability with an understanding of human anatomy and/or architectural elements
- Experience in MudBox and/or ZBrush
Applicants must submit a cover letter, resume via
E-mail. No phone calls please.
Network Administrator
This position is for a highly technical and experienced candidate who will have senior level hands on responsibility for our development and production environments. This person will provide advanced network engineering and consultation in the design, development and implementation of network services and devices and should be well versed in building and supporting a globally distributed MMO infrastructure.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Sets up, configures, and supports internal and/or external networks. Develops and maintains all systems, applications, security, and network configurations. Troubleshoots network infrastructure problems.
- Designs, architects, installs and provides support of Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Security Solutions, VPNs, L4-7 Load Balancers, and Network Management Solutions across LAN/WAN.
- Conducts analysis of network characteristics, troubleshoots problems and recommends procurement, removals, and modifications to network and system components.
- Designs, architects and provides support for network security.
- Maintains IP network design and allocation.
- Provides recommendations on architectural changes and design enhancements to the infrastructure to improve reliably and performance, reduce cost, and anticipate company growth and acquisition.
- Maintains detailed knowledge of company network standards and the overall regional and global network environments.
- Responsible for configuring and maintaining a pro active Network Monitoring System leveraging existing tools in order to maintain and track Network metrics.
- Provides technical expertise to support the implementation and modernization of client server and network systems as well as the applications they support.
- Performs ongoing network fine tuning, upgrades and enhances to optimize Network performance, availability, stability and security.
- Conducts analysis of network characteristics, troubleshoots problems and recommends procurement, removals, and modifications to network and system components on Cisco base networks.
- Provides advanced network engineering and design in support of enterprise network devices and services.
- Manage regular backup of servers and clients for offsite and onsite storage.
- Communicate with our development partners to analyze and service their needs when necessary.
Qualifications:
- 5-7 years relevant experience as a Network/Systems administrator, working with increasingly complex and progressive systems.
- MS certification a plus.
- Experience with networking hardware like Cisco, Juniper, HP, Riverbed, Array Networks, Vyatta, etc.
- Excellent Switch, Router, VPN, firewall, and Load Balancing Equipment knowledge.
- Ability to develop and maintain software to aid in the testing of the network systems.
- Superior problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility by embracing change; adapting communication style to setting; investigating and implementing alternate approaches to resolve difficult problems; learning and adopting new technologies or methodologies where appropriate.
- Ability to work flexible hours and support night or weekend work as needed
- Excellent communication skills and a take-charge attitude.
- Experience generating documentation for peers and NOC staff
Applicants must submit a cover letter, resume via
E-mail. No phone calls please.
