Escape Velocity Entertainment

Senior Game Development Engineer, Automation Systems

Escape Velocity Entertainment

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Python

About the role

  • **What we are looking for:**
  • The Senior Game Development Engineer, Automation Systems is responsible for improving and sustaining the overall health, reliability, and scalability of the game’s development process. This role bridges gameplay engineering, design, art, debug engineering, QA, and build/release — by engineering solutions and ensuring that development is fast, stable, and confidence-driven.
  • This engineer will architect, implement, and evolve systems that support automation, validation, and testing across Unreal workflows. They will produce and maintain automated tests and validation frameworks, ensure results are visible and actionable across teams, and help train others to adopt forward-thinking, test-driven development practices.
  • The role requires a self-directed senior engineer capable of taking high-level objectives, translating them into actionable solutions, and building trust through consistent delivery. Over time, this position will serve as a long-term steward of development health, guiding systems maturity, technical accountability, and cultural best practices for sustainable, high-quality production.

Requirements

  • **What you will bring:**
  • - 5+ years of professional experience in Games.
  • - Strong test-driven development mindset, with the ability to teach and advocate those principles across the team.
  • - Proven track record contributing to automation, build, or validation systems on shipped or live products.
  • - Familiarity with Unreal’s automation frameworks (functional tests, automation specs, or custom solutions).
  • - Solid background in 3D math and gameplay programming and game development concepts.
  • - Strong C++ programming foundations with experience building and maintaining large codebases; familiarity with other relevant languages or scripting (Python, UE Blueprint, or build scripting) as needed for automation and integration tasks.
  • - End-to-end production experience: participated in both development and post-launch or live-ops phases.
  • - Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows, version control, build validation, and reporting pipelines.
  • - Demonstrated ability to execute broad objectives with minimal oversight.
  • - Excellent communication and cross-discipline collaboration skills.
  • - Values maintainability, clarity, and continuous improvement as core to engineering craft.
Benefits
  • **A few benefits you can expect from us: **
  • - A generous PTO allowance
  • - Summer and Winter holidays studio closure (separate to PTO allowance)
  • - Private Medical & Dental Healthcare
  • - Private Mental Health scheme
  • - A generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance
  • - Discretionary Studio Bonus
  • - Top range tech for your home set up
  • - Other benefits based on your region

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
C++PythonUnreal automation frameworks3D mathgameplay programmingtest-driven developmentCI/CD workflowsversion controlbuild validationreporting pipelines
Soft skills
communicationcross-discipline collaborationself-directedability to teachadvocacytrust buildingexecution of broad objectivescontinuous improvementmaintainabilityclarity