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Technical Game Designer (Star Wars Team)
2 years ago
Founded in 2010 by the original creators of the Call of Duty Franchise, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they’ll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. From our roots as an indie studio to joining the expansive roster of studios at Electronic Arts, this remains our guiding principle. We truly love what we do and want to share our passion with players worldwide.
Our shipped titles include critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends, Titanfall, Titanfall 2, Star Wars™ Jedi: Fallen Order and Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.
Join us for the opportunity to create groundbreaking games with some of the best developer talent in the industry.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Technical Designer who will embrace our philosophy and share his/her hard earned expertise to help us create an incredible experience for our players
What you’ll do...
- Work with design leadership, design team, artists, code, and animation departments to deliver impressive design experiences.
- Plan out technical implementation of wide-reaching game systems involving all departments.
- Solve a variety of challenging technical problems in an efficient manner.
- Become an extremely helpful wealth of knowledge for other team members to query on the inner-workings of the game and engine.
- Be an expert at all implementation aspects of the game and engine, able to tackle any issue large or small.
- Track-down complicated logic issues and design effective solutions.
- Refactor prototypes into efficient and satisfying gameplay mechanics.
Ideally, you'll have...
- 5+ years’ experience in the games industry working as a designer, shipping at least one title.
- Experience with text-based scripting, visual scripting, and programming languages.
- Strong understanding of game engine tools and pipelines such as UE4, Unity, Maya, etc.
- Computer Science or related degree.
- A team player-mindset, understanding the importance of collaboration, and able to communicate effectively with all disciplines and departments.
- A positive, solution-oriented attitude and passion about the play experience, with a wealth of knowledge across a wide range of games.
- Confidence you can solve any problem.
If this opportunity sounds like a great fit for you, please submit your resume and we will get back to you once we have reviewed.
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