Bad Robot Games

Designer

• Own the design and implementation of player progression systems, including XP, unlocks, rewards, and meta progression loops from concept to shippable state
• Prototype new progression systems rapidly, iterating based on playtesting feedback and data
• Implement and integrate systems for design driven scenarios in Unreal Engine
• Work closely with UI/UX, Art, and Engineering to implement and iterate on game systems, ensuring design intent is preserved through the technical pipeline
• Collaborate across Design, Engineering, and Art to deliver cohesive, high-quality features
• Drive gameplay systems through the full production lifecycle, maintaining quality and momentum
• Proactively identify, track down, and fix issues in existing systems
• Contribute to establishing progression design best practices and documentation standards for the team
• Be the voice of progression in the wider game direction discussion

Senior Systems Technical Designer – Progression

Engineer

• Own and implement our multiplayer online systems using Unreal 5
• Communicate and collaborate with multiple disciplines to ensure the right services are implemented and optimized
• Utilize your network experience to run multiple online services, including but not limited to socials, matchmaking, and everything in between
• Optimize networks for performance, bandwidth, and memory
• Manage database structures and functionality

Senior Online Engineer

QA Engineer

• Perform both functional and subjective testing and separate the two properly
• Execute end to end product testing including black box and exploratory testing methodologies
• Identify defects and write clear and concise steps to reproduce in bug reports
• Work alongside the QA team to playtest the game, execute test passes, write bugs, investigate defects, and verify fixes
• Collaborate effectively with various teams including but not limited to QA, Production, Engineering, Art, and Design to help track down defects and perform investigations
• Develop, maintain, and execute test plans and test cases that provide broad and meaningful coverage
• Take ownership of specific feature areas or test domains, serving as the subject matter expert for those systems
• Proactively identify gaps in test coverage and surface them to QA leadership
• Contribute to the improvement of QA processes, documentation, and workflows in a fully remote environment
• Validate builds for daily playtests and other internal testing events
• Assist with dev kit setup and bug replication across PC and PlayStation platforms

Senior QA Analyst

Producer

• Own all live service related production tasks including builds, live game incident processes, patches, bug fixes, new content releases, and feature updates
• Plan and oversee live releases end to end, ensuring timely and high quality delivery across all release types
• Establish and maintain multiple roadmaps and high level schedules
• Bring clarity to ambiguity by defining creation pipelines, tracking work, and establishing clear communication pathways across disciplines
• Partner with all project teams to drive them toward delivery
• Work regularly with internal and external community management and stakeholders
• Facilitate and document outcomes and action items for team meetings
• Maintain a clean, up to date project backlog in Jira
• Mitigate risks and take ownership of unforeseen events
• Monitor in-game trends using data insights and telemetry
• Drive team culture by initiating, fostering, and maintaining positive working relationships
• Contribute to broader production organization, sharing process improvements and tooling across the studio

Senior Producer, Live Services

• Partner with project teams to drive them toward delivery
• Serve as the primary production contact for department leads
• Partner with the Executive Producer to define production philosophy
• Establish and maintain multiple roadmaps and schedules
• Evaluate priorities, staffing, and resources
• Champion and support the professional development of producers
• Define creation pipelines and track work
• Document outcomes and action items for meetings
• Foster connections for timely information exchange
• Maintain a clean project backlog in Jira

Lead Producer

2D Artist

• Help define a minimal, intuitive, and visually compelling UI that supports overall game design goals
• Create AAA quality UI art assets, including icons, fonts, animations, and motion graphics from concept to completion using Photoshop, Figma, and After Effects for concepting to implementation in Unreal.
• Design UI elements for menus, HUD and in-world interfaces
• Research visual trends and player-facing UI across games to help define actionable steps in pursuing a great experience for players
• Coordinate and collaborate with UX Designers, Technical UI Designers and UI Engineers to achieve the desired quality in an asynchronous, remote development environment

Principal UI Artist

Game Engineer

• Architect, implement, modify, and maintain networking and gameplay systems with long term stability and scalability in mind
• Design and own core networking pipelines including replication, prediction, and lag compensation systems in close collaboration with designers and engineers
• Prototype and iterate rapidly on features, embracing critical feedback and applying it constructively
• Advocate for quality, stability, performance, and appropriate prioritization across the project
• Coordinate efforts across products to encourage code and feature sharing
• Bring technical excellence across multiple features and platforms, optimizing and fixing bugs in existing networking and gameplay systems
• Collaborate with design, art, audio, and production to problem-solve and generate new ideas
• Proactively identify opportunities and challenges before they become blockers
• Participate in playtesting and provide hands on feedback as the project progresses

Principal Gameplay Engineer, Networking

• Architect and implement animation and gameplay systems with long-term stability and scalability in mind
• Design and own core character animation pipelines including locomotion, combat, and cinematic systems in close collaboration with animators and designers
• Prototype and iterate rapidly on features, embracing critical feedback and applying it constructively
• Advocate for quality, stability, performance, and appropriate prioritization across the project
• Coordinate efforts across products to encourage code and feature sharing
• Bring technical excellence across multiple features and platforms, optimizing and fixing bugs in existing animation and gameplay systems
• Collaborate across disciplines with design, art, audio, and production to problem-solve and generate new ideas
• Proactively identify opportunities and challenges before they become blockers
• Participate in playtesting and provide hands-on feedback as the project progresses

Principal Gameplay Engineer, Animation

• Evaluate and plan timelines and milestone deliveries, ensuring focus testing is carried out at the prescribed time for each title
• Create and implement comprehensive test plans and evaluate bug write-ups for any defects or design issues found during testing
• Set up and coordinate internal focus testing sessions in collaboration with production teams
• Serve as the primary point of contact and manage external partners to coordinate testing and playtesting across all studio projects
• Develop the QA team, owning performance reviews, and career development
• Manage work allocations and contributions across the team to deliver at the Bad Robot Games quality bar
• Own QA objectives, milestones, and craft standards across all studio projects
• Partner with studio leadership to define and evolve the studio wide quality bar
• Establish and champion QA best practices, documentation standards, and onboarding processes as the studio scales
• Report regularly to executive stakeholders on quality status, risk, and team capacity
• Collaborate and sync with Production to understand priorities and advise on or establish timelines
• Contribute directly to the testing and verification of builds
• Interact and communicate with leadership regarding testing progress and blockers
• Validate builds for use in daily playtests, Friends & Family sessions, and other internal and external phases or events
• Utilize Jira day to day to assign bugs, create reports and dashboards, delegate tasks, communicate across disciplines, and ensure testing runs smoothly
• Troubleshoot technical issues with other disciplines as necessary
• Develop measurable and adaptable ways to track work in progress and understand bug resolution velocity
• Assist with dev kit setup and bug replication across PlayStation and PC platforms
• Work off-hours when needed to support milestone and release schedules