Blizzard Entertainment

3D Artist

• Lead and mentor technical artists across key initiatives including art pipelines, procedural generation, rigging, shading, and performance, instilling scalability and best practices
• Help drive global tech art initiatives through direct management of skills, processes, and technical / artistic techniques
• Engage in game production challenges by identifying and solving issues that span design, art, and engineering
• Collaborate with design, art, and engineering on efficient workflows and automation that serve the team’s intentions for gameplay
• Partner with other leads and directors to meet visual and technical standards
• Own performance optimization for art assets by creating clear art performance standards, asset performance monitoring tools, and by building a maintainable process for reviewing and addressing asset performance optimization
• Research, define, extend, and maintain production pipelines, processes, and workflows
• Identify problems and solve them by implementing off-the-shelf solutions and custom technical solutions
• Make and help implement recommendations on how to improve both product quality and group productivity
• Identify potential and recurring workflow problems and collaborate with other developers to find viable solutions
• Manage and maintain asset integration, files, pipelines, and processes

Lead Technical Artist

Full-stack Engineer

• Develop and maintain large-scale distributed systems
• Implement features in SDKs that are used in all the games integrated with the Battle.net platform
• Create sample applications that run on desktop, consoles, and mobile devices to demonstrate platform features
• Create unit and integration test code to validate service reliability
• Write API documentation for consumption by game developers and other integrators
• Participate in on-call rotation to rapidly resolve live incidents related to our systems
• Coordinate with embedded and external teams
• Troubleshoot and debug issues with live and in-development services
• Contribute to scalable, performant, and highly available global game services and edge servers

Senior Software Engineer, Game Services

• Serve as a key member of the development team delivering high-quality VFX for a new unannounced Blizzard game
• Create, integrate, and optimize a variety of VFX assets for characters and environments using bleeding-edge techniques
• Work closely with the lead VFX artist and collaborate with designers, artists, and engineers to deliver iconic VFX to AAA standards
• Participate in team discussions, critiques, and reviews to ensure timely completion and quality of VFX assets
• Apply skills in timing, value, motion, color, and form to add depth, mood, atmosphere, and gameplay impact
• Uphold and champion VFX standards and best practices, keeping effect libraries organized, optimal, and efficient
• Remain current on industry trends, commercial game engines, and workflow efficiencies
• Operate in a dynamic environment, managing fluid deadlines and changing priorities

Senior VFX Artist

Analyst

• Utilize advanced testing methods, including manual and automated Grey-box approaches, to deliver test design, execution, maintenance, and closure results
• Document and maintain detailed records of test cases, results, and issues discovered during testing
• Analyze and monitor software development processes throughout the SDLC to ensure quality, meet requirements, and manage risks
• Plan, develop, review and distribute test execution requests to global QA partners
• Design and implement custom test scenarios using established development toolsets
• Develop test plans with a strategic selection of methodologies including data validation, regression testing, integration testing, and performance/load testing
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, to understand and formulate effective testing requirements
• Adhere to department SLAs within project management (e.g., JIRA) and test-related tools (e.g., TestRail)
• Ensure deployment stability across all environments
• Perform technical testing: performance-related testing, game engine testing, in-game rendering (IGR) testing, special assignments, and testing new technologies
• Develop innovative exploratory testing methods that challenge the intended design of products
• Support the development of knowledge and skills in others through training, mentoring, and constructive feedback
• Advocate for the user experience through the delivery of qualitative reporting
• Perform other duties as assigned

Senior Quality Analyst

Security Engineer

• Blizzard Entertainment seeking Senior Machine Learning Engineer for Platform Security Data Science team to address fraud, cheating, player interactions, trust, and safety.
• Advance Machine Learning capabilities in Platform Security and partner with other data practitioners across Blizzard Entertainment.
• Develop a portfolio of Machine Learning products and work closely with engineers to help improve the platform to leverage more AI and Machine Learning services.
• Engineer robust data pipelines to support feature engineering and visualization of data.
• Make generative AI applications that deliver business values.
• Build solutions to deploy, automate, and maintain models seamlessly on production systems.
• Architect platform-level solutions for machine learning systems.
• Communicate machine learning models and products to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executives and game team leadership.
• Be part of the wider machine learning community within Blizzard to share ideas and learnings.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Platform Security

As a Technical Lead on the Battle.net, Checkout Team, you will architect and lead the development of our in‑game and web checkout systems.
You will own and evolve the complete purchase flow—from game and product discovery through secure transactions and real‑time entitlement delivery.
Ensure fast, reliable, and seamless digital transactions for millions of players worldwide.
Partner across engineering, product, security, finance, and game-studio teams to deliver a world-class ecommerce experience.
This position has been approved for fully remote work with the potential for some light travel; also welcome candidates who would like hybrid based out of Albany, NY, Irvine, CA or Austin, TX.
Lead technical strategy for the checkout roadmap, defining architecture for web, desktop, and in‑game purchasing.
Hands‑on development, including design, implementation, and ownership of high‑throughput, low‑latency transaction services.
Mentor & grow a team of engineers, guiding coding best practices, architecture reviews, and personal development.
Champion culture for the team and the larger department, embodying our mission and values through your everyday interactions.
Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Game Studios, and other stakeholders to ensure feature delivery aligned with business and user‑experience goals.
Ownership of checkout systems, including one‑time purchases and recurring billing/subscription flows, working in tandem with other Commerce teams.
Drive performance, scalability & reliability, ensuring global uptime with resiliency.
Operational excellence: contribute to and oversee scale testing, manage CI/CD pipelines, ingestion of real‑time metrics, incident response, and blameless retrospectives.
Architectural vision: evolve and maintain clean, extensible service-oriented or microservice architectures.
Documentation & knowledge sharing: create technical docs, onboarding guides, and SDKs/tools for internal checkout integration.

Technical Lead

• Develop and maintain large-scale distributed systems
• Implement features in SDKs that are used in all the games that are integrated with the Battle.net platform
• Create sample applications that run on desktop, consoles, and mobile devices to provide examples of how to use key platform features
• Create unit and integration test code to validate service reliability
• Write API documentation for consumption by game developers and other integrators
• Participate in on-call rotation to rapidly resolve live incidents related to our systems
• Coordinate with embedded and external teams
• Troubleshoot and debug issues with our live and in-development services

Procurement

About the Role \u200b? Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. Through unparalleled creativity and storytelling, we create immersive universes and iconic characters that are beloved across platforms, borders, backgrounds, and generations - only made possible by building a work environment that cultivates the artistry of game development and unleashes the aspirations of our people . Join us as an Outsourcing Artist on an exciting, unannounced project, where you''ll play a key role in shaping immersive game environments. In this position, you''ll work closely with talented teams to bring imaginative worlds to life, collaborating and contributing your artistic skills to create memorable experiences for players everywhere. Work Location: This position is classified as hybrid, requiring onsite presence in the office three days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Remote work arrangements are eligible for consideration. Responsibilities Support external environment art production through pipeline support, documentation, resource packaging, content creation, asset polish , and integration . Collaborate with internal and external art teams to ensure high-quality environment art under the guidance of the s enior o utsource s upervisor. Aid in providing clear, actionable feedback from concept to final 3D execution, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and alignment with the project’s art direction. Support best practices, quality control, and a cohesive visual style across all environment assets.

Outsourcing Artist, Environments - Unannounced Game | Irvine, CA or Albany, NY

• The Production Technology Team creates performance and networking solutions that can have a massive impact on all Blizzard's games.
• If you’re passionate about low-level networking fundamentals, working at the Kernel level and helping teams offer the best gaming experience possible, this is your opportunity.
• If you like merging technology with player experience, working with a small team, and looking forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players, we would love to hear from you.
• This position has been approved for fully remote work with the potential for some light travel.
• We also welcome candidate who would like to work in a hybrid capacity based out of Albany, NY, Irvine, CA or Austin, TX.
• As a Lead Software Engineer in the Prod Tech org at Blizzard, you may find yourself coordinating and improving impact across several groups of cross-disciplined engineers while minimizing duplicated efforts.
• Evaluating the technical challenges of our partner teams and applying your experience to help lead ProdTech initiatives.
• Mentoring, developing, and inspiring, as well as learning from, the engineers that report to you.
• Continuously working with Prod Tech leadership, as well as Blizzard leadership, to improve the talent of the organization.
• Sharing ideas and technology to partner teams throughout Blizzard in a clear and effective way.
• Working with stakeholders to drive a blameless culture around incident management.
• Taking pride in your team and succeeding through others.

Lead Technical Artist

Senior Software Engineer, Game Services

Senior VFX Artist

Senior Quality Analyst

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Platform Security

Technical Lead

Senior Software Engineer, Game Services

Outsourcing Artist, Environments - Unannounced Game | Irvine, CA or Albany, NY

Lead Software Engineer, Performance Engineering