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Artists

• 3+ years industry experience
• Working knowledge of Maya or XSI and Photoshop, Mudbox, Zbrush, Modo a plus
• Ability to take a piece from concept to final product

Animators

• 3+ years industry experience
• Working knowledge of Maya or XSI
• Ability to animate from concept to final product

Engineers

• 3+ years industry experience
• C++ expert
• Other graphics, AI or database expertise preferred

Designers

• 3 + years industry experience
• Working knowledge of a professional level design tool
• Programming, art or architecture experience a plus

Valve Anti Cheat Engineer

Do you have a strong desire to combat cheating in online games? If so, this could be the gig for you. As a VAC Engineer, you will use your ninja reverse engineering, debugging and assembly programming skills to bring down cheaters throughout the Steam community. You’ll use your familiarity with executable file formats, dynamic link libraries and process management to unravel webs of an online cheaters. As part of the Steam Team, you’ll help deliver all different kinds of digital content to millions of customers, while working to enhance community features and finding ways to drive revenue.

Requirements: 3+ years experience building commercial software in C++. Strong C++ and fundamental computer science skills. Network programming experience helpful. A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Senior Technical Artist

Valve is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to help drive our technology forward for both current and upcoming projects. A technical artist's responsibilities at Valve include but are not limited to:

• Define and maintain the content pipeline
• Educate artists on proper content creation techniques
• Work closely with both artists, and programmers solving problems and researching new techniques
• Create tools to assist artist workflow
• Combine technology and game play in new and innovative ways

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in either the video game or film industry
• Expert knowledge of scripting languages, Python and Mel preferred
• Basic knowledge of C++
• A strong understanding of next-generation content creation techniques
• Strong technical knowledge of current 2d and 3d applications, including but not limited to Maya, Modo, and Photoshop

Bilingual Technical Support Representative / Localization Translator / Community Developer

Multiple positions: English / Danish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Japanese, Chinese, Czech, Polish

This is an exciting position for someone who wants to help create an international gaming community. Daily Duties and Deliverables:

• Answer customer questions via e-mail and web.
• Translate both technical and non-technical information for internal and external customers.
• Research and report on gaming trends and community feedback in the countries you are supporting.
• Develop relationships with gaming sites in countries you are supporting.

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Steam Release Engineer

The Steam platform is one of the fastest growing multimedia digital distribution platforms in the industry today. The Steam Release Engineer is one step away from millions of customers, delivering top-tier entertainment on a daily basis. The successful candidate will have a thorough understanding of software product build/release concepts and practices, excellent technical knowledge and exceptional customer service skills.

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Senior Programmer

Senior Programmer for game run-time and tool-time software. Researches, designs and develops specialized software systems and applications for advanced three-dimensional interactive graphic elements for use in cutting edge technological media formats including advanced video game consoles, PC, and on-line gaming. Utilizes in-depth knowledge of computer science, engineering, applied mathematics skills and business background to drive next generation features for software and 3-D graphics systems, known as 3-D engines, developed by Valve.

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Senior Programmer: Web Applications

Work as part of Valve's development team, adding web applications and components to our best-of-breed computer games and pioneering e-commerce platform.

• Regularly ship a variety of products from small internal tools to large-scale web applications used by millions of people per month.
• Directly and meaningfully impact the experience of those players & customers.

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Senior User Experience Designer

As a designer at Valve, you’ll be part of an extremely motivated, dedicated, and experienced group of people. You’ll be joining a team that is responsible for some of the most compelling computer entertainment experiences of the last decade. You will also contribute significantly to Steam, Valve’s pioneering gaming community and e-commerce platform.

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Graphic Designer / Web Designer

As a designer at Valve, you’ll be part of an extremely motivated, dedicated, and experienced group of people. You will:

• Work as part of Valve’s core applications and marketing teams, adding web sites and web components to our best-of-breed computer games and pioneering e-commerce platform.
• Regularly ship a variety of web-based experiences, from internal communications to large-scale web sites used by millions of people per month.
• Communicate through the web to Valve’s customers about the variety of offerings available to them in Valve’s online stores.
• Work with existing product identities and brands to create compelling web-based marketing solutions.

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Senior Software Engineer, Steam

Help build future versions of Steam, the digital entertainment platform that is changing the industry. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be a key team member, help drive Steam architecture, and be a top coding contributor. You'll design and deliver new features to enable new game experiences, better deliver all kinds of digital content to millions of customers, enhance community features, and drive revenue. Must be experienced in all phases of a project lifecycle and have great customer focus. May mentor other developers.
Requirements: 5+ years experience building commercial software in C++. Strong C++ and fundamental computer science skills. Experience building high-scale, high-reliability network e-commerce products a plus. A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Software Engineer, Steam

Help build future versions of Steam, the digital entertainment platform that is changing the industry. As a Software Engineer, you'll design and deliver new features to enable new game experiences, better deliver all kinds of digital content to millions of customers, enhance community features, and drive revenue.

Requirements: 3+ years experience building commercial software in C++. Strong C++ and fundamental computer science skills. Network programming experience helpful. A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

vocab words

Keylogger: are local software keyloggers programmed with an added feature to transmit recorded data from the target computer to a monitor at a remote location .


Private Key: signatures made with the no longer trusted to be actually private key after time T

Public Key: a cryptographic approach which involves the use of asymmetric key algorithms instead of or in addition to symmetric key algorithms.

Repetitive strain injury: believed by many to be caused due to lifestyle without ergonomic care

Secure Sockets Layer: protocol allows client/server applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping and tampering

Sniffer: capture traffic on all or just parts of the network from a single machine within the network

Spyware: type of malware that can be installed on computers and collects little bits of information at a time about users without their knowledge.

Strong Password: a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting guessing and brute-force attacks.

Transport Layer Security: are cryptographic protocols that provide communications security over the Internet

IC3 Certification Exam: is to validate fundamental computer skills and knowledge through performance-based testing.

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Critical Thinking: in its broadest sense has been described as "purposeful reflective judgment concerning what to believe or what to do.

Digital Cash: Electronic money systems
In technical terms, electronic money is an online representation, or a system of debits and credits, used to exchange value within another system, or within itself as a stand alone system.

Electronic Commerce: consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet

Keyless Entry System: A remote keyless system can include both a remote keyless entry system (RKE) and a remote keyless ignition system (RKI).

Online Learning: E-learning comprises all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching

Telecommuting: a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location and hours.

Browser Hijacking: It first redirects homepages to its website and begins to collect information on the computer.

Brute force Attacks: a strategy that can in theory be used against any encrypted data by an attacker who is unable to take advantage

Hacking: The controversy is usually based on the assumption that the term originally meant someone messing about with something in a positive sense, that is, using playful cleverness to achieve a goal.

Hardware firewall: Routers assign a unique internal address to each connected unit.

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Public Domain: comprises copyright-free works: anyone can use them in any way and for any purpose. Proper attribution to the author

Related Search: software program that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms.

Search Engine: is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers.

Shared bookmark: a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.

Trademark: a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity

Wiki: a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text

Wildcard character: a special character that represents one or more other characters

Business-to-Business: describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer.

Business-to-consumer: describes activities of businesses serving end consumers with products and/or services.

Business-to-government: a derivative of B2B marketing and often referred to as a market definition of "public sector marketing" which encompasses marketing products

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Indexes: a system used to make finding information easier.

Keywords: the words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author's reasoning.

Libel: defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures

Link List: contains a null reference

Math Symbols: a listing of common symbols found within all branches of mathematics

News Feed: a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

Peer-to-Peer: computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or work loads between peers.

Phrase Searching: is used to search for words as phrases.

Plagiarism: is defined in dictionaries as "the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language

Podcatcher: a computer program used to download various media via an RSS or XML feed.

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Web Cache: the caching of web documents (e.g., HTML pages, images) to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag. A web cache stores copies of documents passing

Website: a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed

Webapp: In earlier types of cloud computing, each application had its own client program which served as its user interface and had to be separately installed on each user

Wiki: is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text

Blog: (a blend of the term web log is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary

Boolean Logic: a complete system for logical operations, used in many systems. It was named after George Boole, who first defined an algebraic system of logic
Copyright: a set of exclusive rights granted by the law of a jurisdiction to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy

Directories: A typical file system may contain thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of folders.

Feed: a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

Secure Sockets Layer: Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that "provide communications security over the Internet TLS

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol: a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication

Internet Protocol Address: a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet

Internet Service Provider: a company that offers its customers access to the Internet

Mosaic: the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials

Podcast: a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.

Portal: a general term describing an opening in the walls of a building, gate or fortification, and especially a grand entrance to an important structure

Really Simple Syndication: a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio

Social Networking Site: an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people

Uniform Resource Locator: a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.

Web 2.0: commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive systemic biases, interoperability, user-centered design and developing the World Wide Web.