Hands-on console developer working on both Xbox Series X|S and PS5. You know input remapping, UI/UX cert compliance, first-boot flows, controller navigation, glyph correctness, and systematic cert testing. You can support crash/stability debugging with repro, logs, and profiler traces. Not a junior role — you are expected to ship production-quality fixes without hand-holding.
- 7+ years professional game development
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Minimum 3 years on console (Xbox / PlayStation / Switch)
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Shipped at least one console title through platform certification where you personally implemented platform-specific features or cert fixes — not just "worked on"
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Unity on console — IL2CPP builds, platform-dependent compilation, Unity Input System (new, not legacy), runtime device detection and input glyph swapping
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Strong Unity UI/UX — UGUI or UI Toolkit, canvas layering, focus management, event system navigation for gamepad. You know how gamepad-driven UI differs from mouse-driven UI
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Systematic, checklist-driven work habits — cert compliance is pass/fail on dozens of individual items, you test every permutation and document evidence
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Comfortable working on codebases you did not write — navigating unfamiliar project structures, reading someone else's code, making targeted changes without breaking adjacent systems
- Experience with Xbox XR requirements or PlayStation TRC requirements — even partial (controller disconnect handling, save-data compliance, trophy integration, suspend/resume)
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Localisation pipelines in Unity — runtime language switching, font fallback for CJK, string table management
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Unity Addressables or AssetBundle systems
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On-device profiling — Unity Profiler connected to devkit, reading frame-time spikes, identifying GC allocation patterns
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Experience capturing crash dumps/logs from devkits and isolating minimal repro cases
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Familiarity with both Xbox and PS5 devkit workflows
- Experience on both Xbox and PlayStation (not just one)
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PS5 DualSense features — haptics, adaptive triggers, controller speaker
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Unreal Engine console experience in addition to Unity
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Prior porting or cert-compliance project experience
Please note: This position is for one of Playdawn's clients, and successful candidates will be hired directly by the client, not by Playdawn.
