Senior Systems Engineer

The Studio We are a video game development studio with offices in Guildford, UK and Utrecht, Netherlands. Sitting within the heart of thriving communities of game developers and publishers, we focus on quality and excellence, and our partners and players are always at the front of everything we do. Games are not just about gameplay. We believe in the importance of balancing every single aspect of a game that you, as a player will interact with; what you see, how you play and how it makes you feel. The Role We have an opening for a Physics Engineer to join our rapidly growing team at Stellar Entertainment to work on an exciting new project. If creating believable, physically accurate worlds pushing the next level of video games is your passion, then this role could be for you. Reporting to the Lead Physics Engineer and partnering with our Creative Director and gameplay teams, your code will create realism within our high-quality titles. An exciting new project is taking shape at Stellar. You'll be joining a specialist team who are ready to explore technical innovations and optimisations. As a Senior Generalist & Physics Engineer, you will: * Work across a broad range of disciplines including gameplay, systems, engine and physics to successfully optimise code, ready for target platforms * Design and implement vehicle-related systems * Profiling, benchmarking, and optimising code across CPU * Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks * Collaborating with designers and producers to tune handling feel * Working with platform engineers to exploit hardware capabilities and hit performance targets across all target platforms * Reviewing and providing feedback on colleagues' code, and contributing to a high engineering standard across the team * Picking up unfamiliar systems quickly, getting up to speed, and leaving things better than you found them Requirements What we’re looking to see on your CV: * Experience in a Senior C++ engineering role, in the games industry. Ideally this will be working on AAA or optimisation projects. * Proficient in C++ and familiar with both object-oriented and data-oriented programming. * Strong knowledge of game engines * Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of 3D Maths and Physics. * Experience with source control systems and collaborative development. * Good problem-solving and debugging skills. * Excellent communication and team collaboration skills. * Passion for video games and familiarity with various game genres. * Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Benefits What you can expect from us: * Flexible hybrid working (we work 3 days per week on-site) * Holiday Accrual Scheme * International AAA game projects; * Access to cutting-edge hardware; * Discretionary bonus scheme * Private Healthcare Plan incl. Dental and Eye care * Pension Plan * Life Assurance * Employee Assistance Programme - Wellness Support * Regular Team Incentives and Social Events We’re on an important journey with our teammates, candidates and industry partners to tackle barriers to equality and promote diversity, inclusion and accessibility across the markets we work in. If you need any support during the interview process or any feedback on our processes, please let us know. We're unfortunately unable to provide visa sponsorship or relocation support for this role, so you'll need to be based in the UK with the Right to Work here.

ABOUT SYCURIO: SYCURIO IS A GLOBAL LEADER IN SECURE, FRICTIONLESS PAYMENT SOLUTIONS THAT EMPOWER ENTERPRISES TO ENHANCE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE AND SIMPLIFY COMPLIANCE. ITS PATENTED CLOUD-BASED TECHNOLOGIES PROTECT SENSITIVE DATA ACROSS ALL CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS AND CHANNELS, ENSURING COMPLIANCE WITH INDUSTRY STANDARDS LIKE PCI DSS WHILE REDUCING FRAUD RISK AND STRENGTHENING TRUST. FOUNDED IN 2009 AS SEMAFONE, SYCURIO SUPPORTS ORGANIZATIONS IN OVER 50 COUNTRIES ACROSS FIVE CONTINENTS, PARTNERING WITH LEADING BRANDS WORLDWIDE. BACKED BY MAJOR INVESTOR LIVINGBRIDGE, SYCURIO CONTINUES TO PIONEER SOLUTIONS THAT MAKE PAYMENTS SECURE AND SEAMLESS.   We are creating a single, accountable owner for everything Sycurio has deployed and running at a client, internally known as the "Run" function. Today the functions that keep our live service healthy (platform, DevOps, support, and service delivery) operate as separate silos, each touching the customer without a cohesive view. This role brings them together. You own the reliability, evolution, and cost-efficiency of the running estate, you break those silos down, and you lead the shift from a reactive, ticket-driven operation to a proactive, reliability-led one.   Critically, that estate includes the real-time voice and telephony infrastructure on which Sycurio's patented DTMF-masking technology sits, alongside the cloud and on-prem systems around it. Keeping that infrastructure secure, available, and evolving is at the core of this role. A telephony lead and specialist team sit within your function and hold the hands-on voice expertise; you provide the technical leadership across the voice estate, owning its direction and architectural decisions.   This is a hands-on leadership role, not a purely managerial one. At the outset there is no Head of Support and no internal DevOps lead beneath you: Support is delivered today through our outsourced engineering partner, and DevOps is currently run entirely by that partner. You will personally set direction and make the technical calls across support, DevOps, and the estate from day one, and build the leadership beneath you over time. You will own the run-side relationship with our outsourced engineering partner, and you will be the named operational interface between Engineering (build), InfoSec (security), and our commercial teams.   You will lead a function composed of internal staff (SRE, Service Delivery, and a telephony specialist team) plus the ops-side of our outsourced engineering partner.   Owned functions (several led by you directly at the outset, with leadership hires to follow): * Support and SRE (on-call): owned directly at first and delivered today via the outsourced partner; a Head of Support to be hired as the function matures. * Platform and telephony engineering: the on-prem and cloud estate and the voice infrastructure (SBC, SIP, media, carrier interconnects), with a telephony lead and specialist team holding the hands-on work. * DevOps and developer experience (run side): CI/CD reliability, environments, deployment, and observability; currently delivered by the outsourced partner, to be shaped and, over time, selectively insourced. * Run-side Service Delivery, including telephony provisioning and change. * Run-side management of the outsourced engineering partner.