Senior Technical Designer

Skills
ContextData ValidationDocumentationLeadershipProceduralRoot CauseScripting
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional game development experience with significant technical design responsibilities
  • Shipped at least one AAA or large-scale online title in a technical designer or equivalent role
  • Strong proficiency in scripting and programming within Unreal Engine 5
  • Experience with C++ in a game development context
  • Familiarity with UMG and building UI within Unreal Engine
  • Demonstrated experience building scalable data-driven systems and pipelines
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills across disciplines

Nice to have

  • Additional discipline experience
  • Gameplay Ability System knowledge
  • State Trees experience
  • Live service pipeline experience
  • Strong visual communication
  • Procedural systems experience

Day to day

  • Collaborate with design leadership engineers and artists to preserve creative intent while meeting technical constraints
  • Build rapid disposable prototypes to explore gameplay ideas test approaches and find the fun before full production
  • Design scalable data driven systems workflows and pipelines and support the team through documentation debugging tool building and technical standards

Hiring process

  • Apply by the stated deadline
  • Applications reviewed by hiring team
  • Selected candidates contacted for next steps