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Build and maintain production-quality gameplay systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Provide technical guidance on simulation and networking, and collaborate with designers, artists, content creators, and engine teams to develop game-building systems and tools for an unannounced PlayStation project from pre-production through release.

Lead QA strategy for the social systems of a competitive multiplayer game from production through launch. Develop test plans, improve processes and toolchains, partner with engineering on automation, supervise external QA staff, and establish quality standards across a cross-disciplinary team. Focus areas include matchmaking, crossplay, cross-save, account entitlements, friends, clans, chat, and trust and safety systems.

Produce a new game from preproduction through launch and live support by creating production plans, maintaining backlogs, tracking scope, schedules, budgets, risks, and dependencies. Facilitate meetings, decisions, cross-team collaboration, and stakeholder communication while supporting creative and technical alignment. The Producer will promote healthy team culture, ensure production standards and company compliance, exercise independent judgment, and continuously improve production practices.

Design and maintain foundational gameplay systems, frameworks, workflows, and tools using C++ and Unreal Engine 5. Provide technical direction for shared gameplay architecture, profile and optimize CPU, memory, networking, and systemic performance, and establish performance metrics, budgets, workflows, and tools. Collaborate across engineering and content teams to support scalable multiplayer game simulation and networking.

Lead UI engineering for a new game franchise by building production-quality UI systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Manage and mentor UI engineers, provide technical guidance across gameplay disciplines, and collaborate with design and cross-functional teams to deliver responsive player experiences. Responsibilities include HUDs, menus, fonts, localization workflows, and developer tools.

Design and implement avatar movement, sandbox systems, customization and progression, and 3C (Character, Camera, Controls). Prototype and iterate with cross-disciplinary teams, integrate audio/animation/effects, create NPCs, and own social/cooperative gameplay systems to foster player expression and community.

Design, prototype, and implement AI enemies, combat systems, and player items for a multiplayer action game. Collaborate with cross-discipline teams to ensure readable, balanced, and compelling gameplay; establish design processes; review and iterate content with art, audio, QA, and engineering to uphold IP quality and sandbox design principles.

Senior graphics engineer responsible for building and maintaining production-quality C++ gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5, evolving rendering systems (lighting, materials, particles, post-process, shadows), collaborating with artists to implement stylized rendering and shaders, optimizing CPU/GPU/memory performance, and diagnosing/fixing graphics and pipeline issues.

Lead the Technical Art discipline: design and deliver character rigs, pipelines, and tools; manage and mentor tech artists; optimize performance across PC and consoles; build workflows, documentation, and cross-team collaboration to support production and prototyping.

Lead and manage engineers to design, build, and maintain production backend game services (sessions, matchmaking, progression). Diagnose incidents, participate in on-call, collaborate with cross-discipline teams, and produce clear technical documentation.