Education

• Undergraduate (bachelors) degree in Computer Science, or related Engineering or Science subject area

General Experience

• 5 years experience as programmer in a commercial video game development environment
• 3 years in gameplay programmer position (AI, behavior, animation, physics, networking)
• Credited role in at least 2 commercial video game titles
• Familiarity with version control systems such as CVS or SVN
• Use of Wiki software as a communication tool
• Familiarity with design patterns

Languages

• C/C++
• Lua, Unreal, or other scripting language experience
• One of Java/C#/Objective-C
• Python, Ruby experience a plus
• x86/ARM/Cell/PowerPC assembly language a plus

Platforms and Frameworks

You must have…

• OSX, Win32 or Linux programming experience
• PS3, XBox360, Wii programming experience
• 2D graphics programming in DirectX or other graphics API
• 3D graphics programming in OpenGL, DirectX or other graphics API
• Excellent math skills (trig, linear algebra, calculus, statistics, mechanics)

…and it’d be good to have:

• Mobile development experience (iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry)
• Web application development on servers/frameworks such as Apache/TomCat, IIS/.NET
• Application development using MySQL, SQL Server or other DB platforms
• Networked application development at the socket or web service level