Senior Technical Designer – R&D

Today is an exciting time to be in the game industry. There is rapid advancement in interesting new areas that enable us to build creations that were previously impossible or prohibitively costly. Often it takes significant effort to develop new ideas and experiment with young technologies while also competing for resources with the main development team. At Build a Rocket Boy we are building a dedicated R&D team specifically to focus on current and future ground-breaking technologies and help build the next generation of games and entertainment products.

As a Senior Technical Designer, you will be working alongside a small and agile R&D team and focus on quick iteration on prototypes that aim to create state of the art game features and unique experiences. You are an engineer at heart and enjoy building player-facing logic and systems. You are a team player, work well with multiple departments in a cross-disciplinary team, and use your experience to mentor and guide junior members of the team.

We would consider candidates looking for remote work for this position. 

 
Responsibilities

• Work closely with other members of the R&D team to build various gameplay systems and prototypes.
• Write high quality code to implement cross-discipline features.
• Tune and balance gameplay features.
• Collaborate with art and engineering to define and implement improvements to tools and workflows.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for various features and gameplay systems you develop.

Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Technical Designer in the game industry.
• Strong knowledge of a technical scripting language with Lua being preferred.
• Proven experience contributing to content in different game design areas.
• Previous experience designing and implementing complex gameplay systems.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of game design workflows.
• A keen eye for detail and a drive to create polished, high-quality work.
• Passion for videogames and a broad grasp of game types and systems.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.
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