Careers

What is the ICE Team? 
Naughty Dog is home to the ICE Team, one of Sony’s World Wide Studios central technology groups. The ICE Team focuses on creating core graphics technologies for Sony’s worldwide first party published titles, including low level game engine components, graphics processing pipelines, supporting tools, and graphics profiling and debugging tools.  
The ICE Team also supports third party developers with a suite of engine components (PlayStation®Edge), and our graphics analysis, profiling, and debugging tool (PlayStation®3 GPAD) for the RSX™. Both enable developers to get better performance out of the PlayStation®3.

Responsibilities

• Create clean, efficient, and well tested code
• Working on core functionality of our graphics performance, analysis, and debugging tool for use with the PlayStation 3 (GPAD)
• Analyzing, organizing, and optimizing code

Requirements and Skills

• Strong 3D math and graphics background
• Strong knowledge of C and C++ programming languages
• Good oral and written skills
• C# .NET (C++/CLI a bouns)
• HLSL/CG
• Networking
• Self-motivated individual with excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent 3D Math Skills (linear algebra, vector math)
• Experience with PS3 development
• Understanding of procedural, object oriented, and aspect oriented programming paradigms
• Console programming experience
• B.S. in Computer Science and/or Mathematics or equivalent work experience