Senior Graphics Programmer

Why PlayStation? Why San Diego Studio?

We are the team behind MLB The Show, a critically acclaimed AAA sports franchise developed for PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms. Our focus is on delivering innovative, high-quality gaming experiences – and we’re looking for a Sr Programmer to help build, package, and ship the game on every platform we support.

The ideal candidate possesses strong problem-solving abilities, sharp attention to detail, and thrives both independently and in collaborative, cross-functional teams. They are a versatile generalist who is as comfortable owning a build and data-packaging pipeline as they are bringing the engine up on new hardware or diving into low-level systems to track down a crash or reclaim memory. They enjoy the planning side of the work: scoping infrastructure changes, sequencing a platform or SDK migration so the team is never blocked, and modernizing tools and systems that have grown over many years. Not only does this person have a strong understanding of how large codebases are built, shipped, and maintained, they are also comfortable with the system-level aspects of the target hardware they’re working on when transitioning to new platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, optimize, and maintain the cross-platform build and data-packaging pipeline that turns our game into shippable products across all our supported platforms, current and future.

• Bring the engine up on new platforms and drive platform SDK upgrades, resolving the low-level and system-level issues that come with them (toolchains, file systems, memory and address-space behavior, boot and packaging requirements).

• Identify and resolve crashes, out-of-memory conditions, and stability issues across a broad range of hardware, from high-end consoles to memory-constrained mobile devices.

• Build, package, harden, and release our mobile (Android and iOS) products, and keep the associated build automation healthy.

• Own and evolve the studio’s internal tools – data packaging, memory tracking, metrics and profiling – that the wider team relies on every day.

• Plan and lead the modernization of long-lived build systems, toolchains, and infrastructure.

• Manage branch integration and keep builds flowing across mainline, staging, production, and patch branches in collaboration with engineering, QA, and production teams.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related technical field or equivalent.

• 5+ years of experience programming in C++ with a focus on performance-critical and system level application.

• Strong experience with development and release of one or more AAA titles.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across many unfamiliar systems rather than within a single specialty.

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills on hard, intermittent, and low-level issues (memory management, crashes, toolchain and SDK behavior).

• Experience with build systems, packaging and deployment pipelines, and build automation (e.g. Jenkins, MSBuild, gradle, and shell/batch scripting).

• Comfort at a low level: memory management, pointers and address spaces, compiler and linker flags, and optimization behavior.

• Hands-on experience with Visual Studio, Perforce, and other standard development tools.

• Working proficiency in C# for tools and pipeline development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing and shipping on console platforms (PlayStation, Xbox, and/or Nintendo Switch), including platform SDKs and certification/packaging requirements.

• Experience shipping mobile titles (Android/iOS): NDK, app-bundle and store submission, code obfuscation and app hardening, and crash reporting.

• Experience developing internal developer tools with graphical front-ends (e.g. C#/WinForms).

• Familiarity with scripting languages like Python is a plus.

• Exposure to graphics/rendering concepts, in particular how rendering features fit within platform memory and performance budgets (desired but not required).