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Company Description

Slant Six is now home to 115 of the brightest game developers in the industry. We specialize in developing games for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and PlayStation Portable (PSP) game consoles and, in February 2008, we were awarded the prestigious Elan Award for the Best New Video Game Company.

Job Description

Slant Six Games is seeking a Network Engineer to implement networking systems and related game features, including matchmaking UI and online community features.

Responsibilities

You’ll solve problems related to the impact of other game systems on the networking systems, and develop solutions related to synchronization, determinism, replication, prediction, latency and bandwidth. You’ll enable people to play an exciting AAA franchise action title on various game platforms.

Required Skills

With your 3+ years of experience in a production setting, you are no stranger to the computer games industry. Your demonstrated passion is networks, specifically networking for video games, both on the client and server side, where you spent at least 2 years honing your craft. You know various game platforms (console and PC), are versed in a variety of game networking strategies, networking protocols, and network topologies, and crucially, have multi-player experience for 8+ clients. You have University credentials (a Computer Science degree or related field), or equivalent work experience, and demonstrable competency in C++.

Salary Range

Depends on experience

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