Bad Robot Games

Engineering Manager

• Manage a team of 4 leads and 6 individual contributors across experience levels, providing coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development
• Foster a collaborative, challenging, and satisfying environment for your development team members
• Partner with production, pod owners, and studio leadership to deliver sprints and milestones on time and at the expected quality bar
• Allocate engineering resources across pods to best match skills, knowledge, and project needs
• Empower engineers with the tools, context, and cross-studio support required to execute effectively
• Represent the engineering organization by surfacing concerns, proposing solutions, and maintaining alignment while protecting technical integrity
• Advise leadership on engineering systems, technology, and infrastructure, identifying and mitigating technical risks
• Contribute hands-on as needed to gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5 (Blueprints and C++)
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and communicate regularly with pod leaders on delivery, resourcing, and performance
• Support critical milestones with urgency, including playtests, in-person events, and occasional travel.

Designer

• Own gameplay-focused design work for combat maps
• Work with Designers, Artists, Engineers, Animators, and our Narrative team to create compelling environments that reflect the game's creative vision
• Build and implement layouts using set game metrics with Unreal Engine
• Work in Unreal Blueprints
• Help maintain consistent navmesh and gameplay metrics throughout our levels
• Prioritize well, meet project deadlines, and communicate progress clearly and frequently
• Present design ideas, receive feedback, and adjust accordingly with rapid iteration
• Playtest and iterate on implemented levels to polish
• Help drive external/outsourced level development
• Implement level design assets across all areas of the game, all while collaborating to ensure that levels are implemented appropriately in the game engine by internal and external collaborators

Engineering Manager

Principal Level Designer