Senior Technical Designer
- Novato, CA, United States
From $60 USD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- From $60 USD / hour
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Required Skills & Experience
Full Stack Design Skills: Broad game design knowledge or a strong specialty, with the technical skills to connect gameplay systems and turn ideas into playable experiences. Strong Technical Skills: Comfortable with Unreal Engine, Blueprints, coding, debugging, and independently building or extending gameplay systems and tools. Tools and Pipeline Experience: Experience building, extending, or improving content creation tools and workflows. Technical and Creative Judgement: Able to evaluate gameplay quality, compare different implementation approaches, and understand their tradeoffs. Curiosity and Adaptability: Enjoys R&D, solving unfamiliar problems, and experimenting with frontier technologies and emerging development tools. Collaborative and Hands-On: Takes initiative, works well with Design and Engineering, and enjoys experimenting, sharing learnings, and improving how teams work.
Job Description
Explore Better Workflows: Identify friction in traditional development and experiment with frontier tools, automation, and new approaches to content creation. Prototype and Validate: Explore new ways to assemble playable content, from mission scripting and gameplay objects to spawning, streaming, and cinematic integration. Develop Tools and Pipelines: Work with Engineering to build and improve tools and pipelines based on real design needs. Apply Design Expertise: Use your understanding of levels, missions, encounters, and gameplay systems to evaluate approaches and guide improvements. Establish New Processes: Turn promising experiments into practical, reusable workflows that improve how teams create content.
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Skills
- Unreal Engine
- Debugging
- Content creation
- Adaptability