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Blizzard Entertainment Inc., Lead Software Engineer

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TITLE: Lead Software Engineer

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or foreign equivalency and 2 years of experience in the job or 2 years of experience as an Engineer, Principal Engineer or in a related occupation.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Any suitable combination of education, training, &/or experience is acceptable.

JOB DUTIES: Lead technical teams, functions or projects and provide reliable guidance to other technical and non-technical teams. Challenge and refine code conventions whilst mentoring others to improve code readability and quality. Identify current problems and provide solutions or guidance to integrate them within the game team. Thinking both in short and long term. Collaborate between other teams to share and learn from tech choices. Maintain awareness of technical knowledge outside the team to actively drive the vision agreed to with other technical leads and organization. Establish and maintain a good relationship with our 3rd party partners and collaborate with them to improve both our technology and theirs. Explore and identify long term solutions to improve and facilitate the product development process as well as improve the quality of life of our existing user base. Define and implement best practices, tools and general code improvements to improve and maintain a golden standard in mobile and pc performance.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#20135/contact K. Finnsson for an appointment.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
PO Box 18979
Irvine, CA 92623

Jobsite: Irvine, CA (Full-time position)

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Activision Publishing, Inc., Senior Technical Artist

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TITLE: SR. TECHNICAL ARTIST

REQUIREMENTS: Master of Entertainment Technology or related field.

JOB DUTIES: Push the graphical limitations of our engine, maintain frame rate requirements, and deliver content within memory and disk footprint budgets. Create tools and processes that facilitate content authoring with an emphasis on user experience, quality and productivity. Collaborate with other Technical Artists to improve studio tools and pipelines. Proactively identify problems, propose solutions and seek out buy-in from the team regarding implementation strategy.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#20128/contact K. Finnsson for an appointment.
Activision Publishing, Inc.
100 N. Sepulveda Blvd., 9th Fl.
El Segundo, CA 90245

Jobsite: Foster City, CA (Full-time position)

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Blizzard Entertainment Inc., Environment Artist

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TITLE: Environment Artist

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Game Art or related field.

JOB DUTIES: Implement visual effects to support both gameplay and storytelling. Work closely with engineering teams to implement new effects technology. Set the pace for the visual style of VF X on an unannounced project. Creation of handcrafted visual effects to be used in real-time game assets. Technical setup, integration, and troubleshooting of VFX in a realtime game engine. Work with Art Director to ensure timely completion of VFX assets at the desired quality bar. Serve as an active participant in team art discussions, critiques, and reviews. Paint special FX textures from scratch and match an established style.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#20170/contact K. Finnsson for an appointment.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
PO Box 18979
Irvine, CA 92623

Jobsite: Irvine, CA (Full-time position)

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Blizzard Entertainment Inc., Shift Manager

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TITLE: Shift Manager

REQUIREMENTS: 2 years of experience in the job or 2 years of experience as an IT Delivery Coordinator, Software Developer & Designer or in a related occupation.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Any suitable combination of education, training &/or experience is acceptable.
JOB DUTIES: Serves as both incident manager and shift lead responsible for the monitoring, incident management, change management, problem management, and knowledge management functions that are required to keep company players in the game. Monitor and maintain availability across all company services. Lead, inspire and develop one of six teams of 4-6 members. Serve as Incident Manager, driving rapid recovery and resolution. Lead projects across the global team to expand monitoring coverage and depth, increase mitigation capability, increase change awareness, and increase overall team effectiveness. Collaborate with the global Operations Center team to identify opportunities and drive the adoption of new technologies and processes to full the GNOC mission. Work closely with IT / Operations leadership, Live Operations teams, and other stakeholders to promote department vision. Perform operations as a global function; monitoring and incident management across 31 global datacenters supporting millions of players all over the world.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#20127/contact K. Finnsson for an appointment.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
PO Box 18979
Irvine, CA 92623

Jobsite: Irvine, CA (Full-time position)

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Activision Blizzard Media, LLC – Software Engineer

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TITLE: Software Engineer

REQUIREMENTS: Master of Information Systems Management or related field.

JOB DUTIES: Develop new feature, with unit tests that can support our large-and-growing user base. Build highly scalable and distributed systems that handles over billion requests a day. Full ownership of building and delivering product features to production. Whiteboard a fix to a scaling problem and then make it happen. Collaborate with peers to write, review, or provide feedback on a technical design proposal. Provide support to our operations staff in troubleshooting and addressing a production issue.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#20036 contact K. Jones for an appointment.
Activision Blizzard Media, LLC
1001 E. Hillsdale Blvd., 6th & 5th Floor
Foster City, CA 94404

Jobsite: Foster City, CA 94404(Full-time position)

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Activision Publishing, Inc., Sr. Systems Engineer

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TITLE: Sr. Systems Engineer

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or foreign equivalency and 5 years of experience in the job or 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer or in a related occupation.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Any suitable combination of education, training, &/or experience is acceptable.

JOB DUTIES: Provide technical designs for new features and/or changes in engine. Write code that fulfills the functional and technical requirements of the project. Collaborate with engineering and design teams to devise optimal engineering solutions. Working with middleware to build new technology and adapt existing systems to fulfill the projects technical requirements. Research coding techniques and algorithms in order to keep current on technological developments and advancements in the game industry. Participate in design and development of high and low level systems.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#20009/contact K. Jones for an appointment.
Activision Publishing, Inc.
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Jobsite: Novato, CA (Full-time position)

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Activision Publishing, Inc., Sr. Systems Engineer

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TITLE: Sr. Systems Engineer

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or foreign equivalency and 5 years of experience in the job or 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer or in a related occupation.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Any suitable combination of education, training, &/or experience is acceptable.

JOB DUTIES: Provide technical designs for new features and/or changes in engine. Write code that fulfills the functional and technical requirements of the project. Collaborate with engineering and design teams to devise optimal engineering solutions. Working with middleware to build new technology and adapt existing systems to fulfill the projects technical requirements. Research coding techniques and algorithms in order to keep current on technological developments and advancements in the game industry. Participate in design and development of high and low level systems.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#20009/contact K. Jones for an appointment.
Activision Publishing, Inc.
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Jobsite: Novato, CA (Full-time position)

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Activision Publishing, Inc., Artist

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TITLE: Artist

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor of Arts in Art or related field or foreign equivalency.

JOB DUTIES: Work with content creators and engineers of other disciplines to build awesome original game art. Work as part of a team in the role of Level Artist for an unannounced project in the development stage. Responsible for the construction of run-time game environments and in modeling, texturing, and lighting of a scene. Create realistic and visually compelling environments.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#20140/contact K. Finnsson for an appointment.
Activision Publishing, Inc.
100 N. Sepulveda Blvd., 9th Fl.
El Segundo, CA 90245

Jobsite: Woodland Hills, CA (Full-time position)

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Blizzard Entertainment Inc., Senior Software Engineer

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TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

REQUIREMENTS: 2 years of experience in the job or 2 years of experience as a Software Engineer, Sr. Programmer or in a related occupation.

JOB DUTIES: Collaborate with game teams and fellow team members to develop a cross-platform game engine, asset pipeline, and tools. Maintain systems for performance, stability, and error-free operation. Identify and resolve workflow issues – discover opportunities for improvement.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#19208/contact K. Jones for an appointment.
PO Box 18979
Irvine, CA 92623

Jobsite: Irvine, CA (Full-time position)

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Blizzard Entertainment Inc., Software Engineer

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TITLE: Software Engineer

REQUIREMENTS: Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related field and 6 months of experience in the job or 6 months of experience as a Software Developer, Programmer Analyst or in a related occupation.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Any suitable combination of education, training &/or experience is acceptable.

JOB DUTIES: Reviews the overall ServiceNow code quality, administration, platform development, module development and executes them using company AGILE practices. Reviewing requirements to ensure that they are provided in sufficient detail to be accurately estimated. Attends regularly scheduled meetings identifying tasks or user stories that are at risk and provides support as needed. Works with multiple levels of staff and leadership to understand the requirements and how they might impact cross-functional process teams. Analyzes and designs programs for simple to medium complexity business problems according to user specifications and assisted in developing detailed program specifications. Complies with project management methodology requirements as appropriate. Request Fulfillment Created new workflows, forms, approvals, etc. Knowledge Management Created simple routing and approvals. Legal Management Created custom application that helped legal team migrate from emails to an application that manages automated workflows for approvals, notification and Contract creation. Custom Applications Created custom applications in ServiceNow that support our Visitor registration process in several location of company.

CONTACT: Please send resume ref#19118/contact K. Jones for an appointment.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
PO Box 18979
Irvine, CA 92623

Jobsite: Irvine, CA (Full-time position)