Senior Gameplay Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Create, execute, and sustain intricate gameplay systems and features utilizing contemporary game development methodologies.

• Take ownership of gameplay projects from the stages of technical exploration and prototyping to implementation, refinement, optimization, and final touches.

• Convert gameplay and design objectives into solid technical solutions while recognizing constraints, dependencies, trade-offs, and potential opportunities.

• Develop efficient, scalable, maintainable, and adaptable systems.

• Collaborate with Gameplay Designers and Systems Designers to establish responsive, intuitive, and satisfying mechanics.

• Integrate gameplay systems with animation, AI, UI, audio, physics, networking, and various other game technologies.

• Investigate and resolve intricate technical issues that span multiple systems or disciplines.

• Profile, debug, and enhance gameplay systems across various target platforms.

• Lead technical design evaluations and influence architectural choices relating to gameplay technology, reusable patterns, tools, and frameworks.

• Create prototypes and technical experiments to confirm gameplay concepts and diminish technical uncertainty.

• Conduct code evaluations and document technical strategies and dependencies.

• Mentor and assist engineers through technical support, code evaluations, design discussions, and hands-on problem resolution.

• Decompose, scope, and sequence complex gameplay projects in collaboration with production and engineering leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Typically possess 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including considerable experience in game development, or equivalent demonstrated scope and expertise.

• Proven experience in building and launching gameplay systems for at least one PC and/or console title.

• Advanced proficiency in modern C++.

• Strong foundation in software engineering principles, covering game architecture, real-time systems, performance, debugging, and optimization.

• Capability to independently manage complex gameplay systems from concept through implementation, optimization, and final polish.

• Skill in diagnosing and resolving ambiguous or technically complex issues with minimal direction while balancing player experience, performance, maintainability, and delivery priorities.

• Experience in translating gameplay ideas and design requirements into effective technical solutions.

• Solid understanding of gameplay fundamentals and the creation of responsive, intuitive, and enjoyable systems.

• Experience collaborating closely with game designers and other engineering and non-engineering teams.

• Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and enhance the overall technical quality of a team.

• Excellent, inclusive communication and collaboration skills.

• Preferred: experience in shipping a game featuring multiplayer or online gameplay.

• Preferred: knowledge of replication, networking, and multiplayer gameplay architecture.

• Preferred: experience with AI, navigation, physics, animation systems, or character technology.

• Preferred: experience in developing gameplay frameworks or reusable technology utilized by multiple teams or systems.

• Preferred: familiarity with gameplay scripting or other methods to enable rapid designer iteration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.

• 401(k) with Company match.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Charitable donation matching.

• Paid holidays and vacation.

• Paid sick time.

• Floating holidays.

• Compassion and bereavement leave.

• Parental leave.

• Mental health & wellbeing programs.

• Fitness programs.

• Free and discounted games.

• Voluntary benefit programs including supplemental life & disability, legal services, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.

• Relocation assistance may be available if the Company requires geographic relocation for the job.

• Incentive compensation may be available (not guaranteed).