Senior Technical Designer

We are looking for a Senior Unreal Engine Designer to join our core Virtex Stadium platform team. You will collaborate with the development and art teams to design, tweak, and optimize the VR user experience. Your analytical skills, user insights, and creativity aid in crafting experiences that engage and surprise users.

As an ideal candidate, you will have a great understanding of Unreal Engine and passion for designing social Virtual Reality experiences. We are a growing studio, so this requires plenty of hands-on work creating, iterating, and tuning systems/mechanics. You are comfortable operating in an ambiguous environment where goals and constraints are mostly team driven and where change, big and small, is a critical part of the process.

Prerequisites

• 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design, ideally including VR Game Design.
• Proficiency at scripting in Blueprints and basic understanding of C++ Code.
• Able to rapidly prototype concepts and later polish into production ready solutions.
• Good knowledge of game flow and what makes a great user experience.
• Can create and improve complex mechanics and/or systems with attention to the user impacts and downstream effects.
• Excellent communication and collaborative problem solving skills.

Additional Skills (pluses)

• Experienced working with animation blueprints, rigging, control rigs and animation retargeting
• Experience creating a range of complex custom shaders using unreal material editor
• Passion for Esports, VR or live events.
• Experience working with UMG or comparative game oriented UI systems.
• Solid understanding of actor hierarchy incl. C++ parent class relationships for blueprint actors.
• Knowledge of procedural generation software (e.g. Houdini).
• Familiar with Epic's standard best practices.
• Familiar with Unreal Engine Virtual Production tools and pipeline.
• Experience working Unreal's AI and/or NPC system.

BENEFITS

• Ability to work fully remotely (limited to UK and European time zones to facilitate collaboration).
• Relocation support to UK incl. budget if you are interested in moving to London and working from the studio/office.
• Latest VR equipment for all team members.
• Stock Options depending on your previous experience.
• Play Fund to support you exploring games and other social apps.
• Workplace pension scheme for UK residents.
• We are a registered UK Visa Sponsor.