Topic: Nintendo looking for staff. A lot of it.

http://kyoto-report.blogspot.com/2011/12/nintendo-begins-larg...
That HD Devlopment is ramping up.

Nintendo Begins Large Recruitment Campaign
Nintendo Company Limited has begun a large recruitment campaign for experienced and veteran development personnel to join their Kyoto plants and Tokyo plant. The proposed increase in staff comes at no surprise considering that the company is planning to open an entirely new facility in Kyoto strictly for software and hardware development. The new facility was proposed by Satoru Iwata to not only house a greater amount of employees, but also to create an efficient synergy between them. With work demands increasing thanks to more involved hardware in the Wii U and 3DS, the company has pledged to meet the challenges head on.

The company is currently undertaking two different recruitments. One being for veteran developers that already have experience in the industry. The second being the new college graduate recruitment typically held once or twice a year. Some of the advertised openings are as follows:

Kyoto - Mid Career Recruitment

[Development Department]
Program Development Engineer, Web Engineer, Network Library for game development engineers, Library Support for network game engineers, Building Management System, Engineer Server, Software Engineer Wireless Communications, Embedded Software Engineer, Evaluation and Validation Software Development Engineer, Improve software quality engineer, Body embedded software development engineer, Production Engineering Development, Development Coordinator, Product Development Coordinator, Technical designer, Artwork Designer, Design 3DCG, Effects Designer, GUI Designer, Movie film production staff, Illustrator, Industrial designer, Sound Creator, Packaging Designers, Packaging design personnel (contractors), Technical Writer (contract employee)

[Technology Department]
Technical Support (mainly software)
Field Development Engineer
Games conformity assessment professionals (contractors)

Tokyo - Mid Career Recruitment

[Development Department]
Main Director or Planner, Design 3DCG, Effects Designer, GUI Designer, Programmer, and Network Application Engineer.

New College Graduates Hiring Into Nintendo

[Science and Engineering]
Game development program, middleware development tools, network development library, developed OS · library driver, game system architecture design, Communications Systems wireless capabilities, server systems development, enterprise network management systems, hardware (electromechanical) , Production Engineering, Procurement, other patent management

[System Design]
CG design, artwork design, industrial design, GUI design, design effects, video production other movies /

[Sound system]
Music production (Composer), production sound effects, sound program

Not surprising. They've gotten big in everything but staff numbers

CRAP! I thought this said Nintendo*Life* looking for staff! I quit my Christmas list looking and clicked on this as fast as my mouse could go! Now I'm going to go sit in the corner and cry...

I'll take a position in music production, please.

i'd rather have a role similar to yoshio sakamoto's or shigeru miyamoto and come up with my own and new nintendo characters and franchises.

Um, they came up with the ideas, and THEN got their positions

in that case, i'd have numerous ideas for new games and franchises. especially ones nintendo haven't attempted before, like a streetfighter, tekken-style fighter.

the are hardware jobs guys, not game design

Some software but not pertaining too Games. OS work. its funny because Retro has been hiring recently and Mircosoft has opened new studios Next-Gen is on the way.

I think Smash Brothers is good enough.

Unemployment these days........

do you mean why these are not given to people who lost jobs and have a hard time getting one but instead are given out to people fresh out of college or with enough experince to get any job they want?

Some of us don't like Smash Bros. style. I would love a tekken style fighter, but why would that be needed since we are getting Tekken 3D?

I assumed he was talking about how its not being given to older people who may have experience. I kinda assumed that most of nintendo's staff is pretty old and they should start looking for the next generation. Also emploment in japan isn't as bad is it is here.

@Reggie4Life Well, a NintendoLife Staffer' did add you up on 3DS, so add me back.

Oh, I added those of you in this thread that I don't already have on my Friends List too: Iz and pntjr.

I would love to take the position in anything art related listed...

oh ok.

@Tony_Vayza Some of us don't like Smash Bros. style. I would love a tekken style fighter, but why would that be needed since we are getting Tekken 3D?

but then tekken came out after virtua fighter was launched. if not a 3-D fighting game, perhaps a 2-D one. nintendo have made almost every type of video game, apart from the traditional one-on-one tekken or streetfighter-type one. if SEGA can release virtua fighter, then i don't see why nintendo can't have their own fighting game as well. smash bros excluded.

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