Lead Combat Designer

Who We Look For

• 10+ years of experience in combat design, including senior, principle or lead experience.
• Extensive experience in tuning and balancing firearms.
• Extensive experience and grasp at crafting melee combat gameplay, animation timing and feel.
• Extensive experience in design, implementation, troubleshoot and tuning of Player 3Cs, traversal and combat mechanics.
• Extensive experience in design, implementation, troubleshoot and tuning of enemy combatants and AI behaviors.
• Fluency with Unreal Editor and Blueprint scripting; text-based scripting experience is a plus.
• Experienced collaborating with animators to create gameplay friendly animations that strike the right balance between fidelity, fluidity and responsiveness.
• Experience in designing combat gameplay based on mo-cap performances; experience in directing mo-cap performance is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey difficult and abstract concepts to all disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess an extensive knowledge of competing products and a deep understanding of the complex overlap between combat and open world gameplay systems.
• Shipped at least one AAA title from inception to finish.
• Experience working effectively with globally distributed team members/partners across cultures, borders, languages and time zones.

Location: State(s) US-California-Los Angeles

The expected base pay range for this position in the location(s) listed above is $109,200.00 to $205,900.00 per year. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Employees hired for this position may be eligible for a sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units, which will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Your benefits may be adjusted to reflect your location, employment status, duration of employment with the company, and position level. Benefits may also be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.