Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Burns Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Job Opening: Special Projects Programmer Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:14:47 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 46 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: jamesb2.tg.scee.sony.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7 Hey guys, MattV has moved onto pastures new, the Wipeout team to be precise! Good luck to him and all that! Anyway, he's left his position available, so if anyone wants to apply please send a CV and cover letter to hradmin@scee.net also note that you seen my post here, helps with admin later. Regards, James Overview Special Projects manages the regular production and development of interactive demo discs for PlayStation®2, PSP and PS3. Demo discs are produced for Official PlayStation magazines throughout Europe and for various special marketing purposes such as public events. We also create interactive features for demo discs, and produce video and audio material, and DVD-Video discs. Main duties and responsibilities The Special Projects Programmer will work with a team of two artists, two junior programmers, a producer and support staff, concentrating on the coding side of demo disc development on PlayStation®2, PSP and PS3. Reporting to the Special Projects Producer and Assistant Producer, he will carry out coding tasks in order to maintain and develop the menu systems and add-on applications needed for demo disc production. He will be called upon to give technical advice in relevant areas, such as the purchase of new software, and technical requirements for artwork. He will assist in the selection of candidates to new programming positions. He will maintain his own programming equipment on a daily basis. Skills and Qualifications • A degree in software engineering or computer science. • C/C++ programming ability required. • Relevant (console) experience will be helpful. • The ability to learn on the job and rapidly understand new platforms is essential