Job Description

Job Description

Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy, and urbanization.

3D Technical Lead

Working together with the Team Lead, define the 3D technical roadmap and help steer a towards a technical vision. While navigating constraints to turn it into reality, the Technical Lead and team will be producing high-quality 3D Visualizations, Digital Twins and AR/VR experiences. With a responsibility to help your team of programmers develop their technical skills, you coach and mentor them, empowering them to innovate and perform at their best.

This role can be performed remotely from any US GHD Hub offices.

Thanks to your expertise, credibility, and reliability, not only can developers on your project turn to you for information and direction, but so can others. You’re a go-to person for mentorship and a trusted advisor for Ubisoft employees worldwide. You have a good understanding of the physics of lighting and a working knowledge of physically based shading. You use these passions, skills, and knowledge to build striking work, and are able to provide technical expertise.

On a typical day, you note issues and brainstorm ways to address them. You review outstanding bugs and how best to approach them, identify risks and deliver on time.

The daily life of a Technical Lead (3D)

• Define the technical vision within the project’s 3D team + plan its technical roadmap.
• Regularly meet with the 3D programming team to discuss progress; tackle setbacks; share updates; present features; give feedback; informatively and constructively explain the root causes of risks and issues; etc.
• Mentor and empower programmers to develop their technical skills + provide them with what they need to work efficiently and achieve quality (tools, pipelines, etc.) and empowering them to innovate.
• Write sophisticated code customized to the hardware you’re working with.
• Provide technical guidance by reviewing code and making technical validations.
• Improve existing graphical features and inspire the development of new ones.
• Anticipate and assess complex, raised issues + propose adapted solutions.
• Sync up with other technical leads to remove blockers and keep production moving forward.
• In conjunction with the Team Lead, communicate with interdependent teams on other projects to exchange information.
• Stay up to date on technological advancements and industry standards to define our best practices + share them with our studios.
• Explore new hardware and deal with the interesting challenges and opportunities it poses.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and facilitate information flow (e.g. produce modular code for colleagues from other projects and studios, host and attend 3D tech talks and other presentations, write about your work, etc.).

Qualifications

• An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent training or relevant experience
• Around 7 years of programming experience + 2 years of technical leadership
• A deep understanding of a variety of game engines, systems, programming languages, interdependencies, and critical issues
• Proficiency in C++
• Knowledge of GPUs, HLSL/GLSL, and graphics APIs (e.g. DirectX and Vulkan) + understanding of game engines and their limitations
• A thorough grasp of memory management & multithreaded programming techniques
• The ability to make informed, immediate decisions with minimal long-term impacts
• A strategic approach to problem-solving.
• Excellent mentorship, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• A highly innovative and collaborative spirit
• Effective cross-departmental communication: you can easily communicate with all disciplines + break down complex information for various audiences
• A desire to share your knowledge to push the boundaries of technology & help others improve their skills
• Willingness to continue learning – new technologies, engines, rendering techniques, programming languages and 3D software.

As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.

About Us

Why GHD?

Being the best we can be is in our culture.

We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

Our commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Who we are

We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation . GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly ‘One GHD’ across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents – Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.

Organization

GHD Digital

At GHD Digital, our people-centric and innovative approach combines industry insights with digital mindsets to maximise opportunities for growth and success. Our complete offering builds business value - from location intelligence and data management, to applied innovation, advanced visualisation, and predictive and artificial intelligence.