CD PROJEKT SA

Game Engineer

• Delivering in-game animations using MotionBuilder, Autodesk Maya, and Unreal Engine as the main art creation and implementation tools.
• Planning, preparing, and directing motion capture sessions.
• Establishing and maintaining animation asset creation workflows, folders, naming conventions and other engine-related organizational structures.
• Planning and co-developing multiple Player and NPC--related animation systems, including MotionMatching Systems, animation graphs, procedural animation setups, and engine-specific auxiliary data such as notification and synchronization events, and additional data settings files.

Senior Gameplay Animator – Contract

Engineer

• Lead the design and implementation of high-quality, maintainable C++ tools and workflows, primarily for Unreal Engine.
• Collaborate closely with cross-disciplinary teams to understand complex needs, propose effective solutions, and champion tools development efforts.
• Independently manage the full lifecycle of tool initiatives—from ideation and prioritization to deployment and ongoing support.
• Proactively provide ad hoc tools support, effectively balancing immediate needs against broader development priorities without constant oversight.
• Evangelize tools best practices, advocating their strategic importance to productivity and quality across the organization.
• Objectively evaluate the impact of tools and workflows on project productivity to inform prioritization decisions.
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers, enhancing team capabilities.

Senior Tools Engineer

• Focusing on the 3Cs of Character, Camera, and Controls, the person in this role will work closely with designers, animators, and other engineers on system prototyping and implementation, ensuring the systems built meet the project code standards
• Develop and implement systems in-engine in a multiplayer environment, using C++ and Blueprints
• Communicate and collaborate across departments as it pertains to 3Cs systems: work closely with gameplay design and engineers, as well as production in managing the prioritization, implementation, and scope of the game’s systems as they pertain to camera, controls, and character
• Follow the code quality standards set by the team
• Collaborate across disciplines in achieving the overall vision of the game
• Solicit and incorporate feedback from team members regarding existing systems

Senior 3Cs Engineer

Software Engineer

• Working with and maintaining streaming systems to maximize performance.
• Creating tools and data pipelines to achieve our massive world with minimal performance impact.
• Design and implement optimal streaming solutions for our game experience.
• Developing optimal workflows to enable our art and design teams to bring the world of Cyberpunk 2 to life.

Senior Engine Programmer

Marketing

• Develops comprehensive marketing strategies across Japan to enhance brand presence, drive engagement, and achieve business growth.
• Runs marketing activations and partnerships on the Japanese market (either hands-on or via outsource), ensuring alignment with Japanese audience expectations.
• Adopts global brand marketing strategy per local market and its needs.
• Ensures alignment with brand identity, global strategic objectives, and messaging guidelines.
• Proactively seeks opportunities to develop brand equity of CD PROJEKT RED brands in Japan.
• Monitors local trends, competitor activities, and performance metrics to identify opportunities for optimization.
• Responsible for account management of key business partners, for example retail distributors, marketing & media agencies or local content creators.
• Works as the main point of contact for various CD PROJEKT RED departments, such as brand, creative, legal, PR, community, and production team in all Japan marketing-related projects.

Senior Marketing Manager – Japan

• Focusing on the 3Cs of Character, Camera, and Controls, the person in this role will work closely with designers, animators, and other engineers on system prototyping and implementation, ensuring the systems built meet the project code standards.
• Develop and implement systems in engine in a multiplayer environment, using C++ and Blueprints.
• Communicate and collaborate across departments as it pertains to 3Cs systems: work closely with gameplay design and engineers, as well as production in managing the prioritization, implementation, and scope of the game’s systems as they pertain to camera, controls and character.
• Follow the code quality standards set by the team.
• Collaborate across disciplines in achieving the overall vision of the game.
• Solicit and incorporate feedback from team members regarding existing systems.

Expert 3Cs Engineer

• Work closely with designers and animators to fulfill the vision of the game.
• Build and maintain solid and flexible gameplay systems that work in both singleplayer and multiplayer.
• Write high-quality code that is optimized, bug-free, and aligned with project goals.

Senior Gameplay Engineer – Combat

• Develop architectural proposals and guide the vision for diverse engine systems, ensuring they meet desired functionality and performance standards
• Proposing tools or technologies that could enhance the ability to deliver great engine systems support
• Owning and driving engine topics and subsequent decision-making
• Proposing and implementing solutions to the challenges of performance and scale of a large open-world game
• Mentoring team members on how to get the most out of Unreal Technology
• Motivating and energizing the team members
• Cultivating the team culture in line with the company’s values and goals
• Cascading and escalating information
• Interviewing and hiring members of your team
• Creating a game that delivers memorable experiences to players
• Working across all disciplines to ensure that the engine technologies are meeting the needs of all stakeholders

Lead Engine Programmer

• Manage a team of engineers, with duties including hiring, supporting the performance and career development of your reports while fostering a team environment of collaboration and innovation.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and efficient network architectures for online features.
• Ensure low-latency, high-performance online experiences for players.
• Lead your team to develop and optimize multiplayer systems, including matchmaking, and address challenges related to latency, bandwidth usage, and server performance.
• Work closely with game designers, gameplay programmers, and other departments to integrate network features seamlessly.
• Collaborate with IT and infrastructure teams to ensure reliable server deployment and maintenance.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in network programming and online gaming technologies.
• Evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance the studio's network capabilities.

Lead Gameplay Network Engineer

• Maintaining and optimizing existing rendering systems
• Developing new rendering solutions for large-scale problems
• Working closely with art teams to provide performant and effective solutions
• Bringing our characters and worlds to life with your rendering knowledge
• Optimizing performance & memory utilization

Senior Rendering Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Designing, implementing, optimizing, and maintaining Animation technology for Open World systems.
• Taking ownership of core animation systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and quality.
• Developing tools and debug utilities to streamline development.
• Collaborating with animators and other specialists to create a believable living world.
• Partnering with design, QA, production, and other teams to define technical scope, timelines, and priorities.
• Debugging, profiling, and resolving technical challenges across large-scale systems.
• Conducting code reviews and maintaining clean, modular, and maintainable code.
• Defining and documenting technical standards.
• Collaborating on rapid prototyping, R&D, and testing new technologies and ideas.

Senior Engineer, Animation – Smart Object

• Developing animation systems and/or extensions to these systems.
• Extending Sequencer tool.
• Developing story telling mechanics related to animation.
• Collaborating with other engineers, designers, animators and other developers contributing to team work on a daily basis.
• Writing readable, high quality, efficient C++ code.
• Maintaining, debugging, profiling and bug fixing code to achieve the best quality and performance.
• Documenting code and work, creating debug tools for other developers, creating tests to cover existing functionality.

Senior Engineer, Animation – Story Tech

Creative Strategist

• Translate marketing and brand objectives into inspiring creative briefs that provide clear direction for Art, Video, and cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with audience insights, brand positioning, and campaign goals
• Lead ideation and concept development by organizing collaborative sessions to generate campaign concepts, taglines, scripts, and content ideas, providing strategic framing to guide creativity toward broader business objectives
• Craft messaging and narrative frameworks, including campaign platforms, tone of voice guidance, and storylines, as well as writing compelling taglines, copy, and trailer scripts that establish a strong creative foundation
• Deliver persuasive presentations and creative pitches to secure stakeholder buy-in, clearly articulating the strategic and creative rationale behind concepts to build trust and alignment across teams
• Collaborate with Creative Producers, Art Directors, and Video Directors to ensure concepts are executable, visually coherent, and narratively compelling, providing consultation throughout production to maintain creative integrity
• Champion audience and brand insight by grounding creative work in cultural trends, audience understanding, and brand strategy, while pushing creative boundaries and staying true to CD PROJEKT RED’s voice and values

• Work closely with quest and cinematic designers to understand their needs and ensure the tools meet the creative and technical goals.
• Build and maintain story related plugins.
• Ensure tools run efficiently without sacrificing performance, maintaining smooth workflows for the design team.
• Write high-quality code that is optimized, bug-free, and aligned with project goals.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration to ensure the tools contribute effectively to all game systems and components.

Senior Story Programmer

Designer

• Work on key systems such as: targeting, combat metric, input queuing, player abilities and progression, aggro management (ticket system for AI), enemy behavior tree, enemy ambient behavior, and balancing.
• Develop and refine our approach to combat and foundational combat systems.
• Pitch, prototype, implement, balance and ship a wide variety of enemy types, including core enemies and bosses.
• Tune the combat experience at the micro level: animation lengths, i-frames, damage volumes, etc.
• Implement each character type’s combat behavior using techniques such as behavior trees, animation graphs and blueprint.
• Work with character art, animation, VFX and audio to ship characters with state-of-the-art levels of polish.
• Help balance combat-related systems such as player leveling and experience, weapons, and damage.
• Produce documentation to communicate your proposals and designs, and work with production to ensure they can be implemented with the time and resources available.

Senior Gameplay Animator – Contract

Senior Tools Engineer

Senior 3Cs Engineer

Senior Engine Programmer

Senior Marketing Manager – Japan

Senior Engine Programmer

Expert 3Cs Engineer

Senior Gameplay Engineer – Combat

Lead Engine Programmer

Lead Gameplay Network Engineer

Senior Rendering Engineer

Senior Engineer, Animation – Smart Object

Senior Engineer, Animation – Story Tech

Creative Strategist

Senior Story Programmer

Expert Combat Designer