Technical Director

Lead–Principal On-site Reykjavik, Iceland Full-time Posted 2 months ago

Skills & stack

Skills

Game Engine Architecture Graphics Programming Technical Leadership

About the role

The Technical Director role at CCP Games is a Lead to Principal position based in Reykjavik, Iceland. Reporting to the Senior Development Director of Core Technology, you will oversee CARBON, the shared game development platform covering engine runtime, rendering, graphics, tools, pipelines and developer experience.

Work format

This is a full-time, office-based position. English proficiency at C2 level is required.

Skills and tools

Game Engine Architecture
Graphics Programming
Technical Leadership

What to prepare

Prepare an architecture walkthrough covering runtime, rendering or tooling decisions and their performance trade-offs.
Choose an example of aligning technical leaders across teams around a shared engineering direction.
Prepare examples showing your judgment in adopting AI-assisted development or open-source approaches.

Responsibilities

Translate product vision and organizational priorities into technical strategy and execution plans.
Manage and develop technical leaders across Graphics, Runtime and Tools, aligning their engineering direction.
Guide architecture decisions around performance, scalability, maintainability and developer experience.
Contribute technical guidance and code reviews while developing the effectiveness of engineers and leaders.
Guide adoption of AI-assisted development to improve iteration and engineering effectiveness.
Shape CARBON's open-source strategy to improve platform accessibility and long-term relevance.
Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks and opportunities across the organization.

Requirements

Significant senior technical leadership experience in game development.
Deep expertise in game engine architecture, runtime systems, graphics programming or rendering, and developer tooling.
Experience managing senior engineers, technical leads or engineering managers.
Demonstrated ability to establish technical direction and align multiple teams around it.
Judgment in applying AI-assisted development and open-source approaches within engineering constraints.
Engineering experience that supports architectural decisions, technical guidance and code review.
Ability to explain complex technical topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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CCP Games

Product

CCP Games is an Icelandic video game developer founded in 1997, best known for the MMO EVE Online, headquartered in Reykjavik with additional studios in London and Shanghai.

Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Team size: 1000+
Remote policy: Hybrid

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