Insomniac Games

3D Artist

• Creating high-quality in-game cinematics that meet the visual and performance standards
• Driving the cinematic process from script interpretation and scene layout through final implementation in the game engine

Senior Cinematic Animator

Systems Engineer

• Accountable for design systems quality and on-time delivery
• Directly supervises Systems Designers
• Oversees design, prototyping, and iteration of gameplay systems
• Collaborates with Gameplay Programming counterparts
• Writes and updates gameplay system documentation
• Maintains systems design schedule and prioritizes work
• Reviews design work and drives iteration and quality

Lead Systems Designer

Data Analyst

• Conduct in-depth analysis of player behavior metrics and feedback to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities across gameplay and systems.
• Develop and maintain dashboards in tools such as Looker to communicate findings and progress against goals.
• Partner with gameplay programmers to design and maintain event dictionaries, ensuring consistent telemetry data definitions.
• Identify objectives and queries for data collection across development (SPINT) and post-launch (PROD) databases.
• Translate complex data sets into clear, actionable insights that guide design, feature prioritization, and project strategy.
• Collaborate with user research teams to integrate quantitative data with qualitative findings, strengthening overall player experience insights.
• Participate in user research studies to understand player behaviors firsthand and identify new tracking opportunities.
• Support creation of research reports, visualizations, and presentations that combine telemetry and player study results.
• Provide expertise on data collection, telemetry architecture, and analytic methodologies to ensure quality and accuracy of player data.
• Act as a liaison between Game Analytics, User Research, and Development teams, ensuring analytic deliverables align with studio and project needs.
• Coordinate with Development Support and PSSQA to verify telemetry accuracy and relevance.
• Communicate analytic updates to research schedules and dependencies with partner teams.
• Evaluate new data sources, tools, and workflows to continuously improve analytic capabilities.
• Develop a deep familiarity with game systems, mechanics, and design goals to provide meaningful context for data trends and player behavior.
• Foster collaboration with development teams to gain a comprehensive understanding of gameplay systems and tools.
• Use contextual awareness to interpret why patterns occur in the data and to uncover underlying causes affecting player experience.
• Identify and communicate early indicators or warning signs within data that could affect design outcomes or player satisfaction.

Research Data Analyst

• Creates, designs, and implements real-time particle effects using both static and animating 2D/3D elements
• Placing of visual FX across all areas of the game, including environmental and gameplay FX, and cinematics
• Create FX textures (color, normal, specular, ambient occlusion, height, and incandescent maps)
• Possesses at least an intermediate ability to navigate and use DCC software such as Maya, Houdini, or equivalent
• Creates FX shaders with node-based shader networks
• Creates simple geometry and UV sets
• Possesses an intermediate foundation in computer graphics fundamentals and artistic analysis
• Optimizes FX for framerate and memory
• Collaborates with other development departments to ensure that FX are implemented appropriately in the game engine
• Understands and adds to the overall art style of game
• Orchestrates FX events involving layering and timing of different FX to create a believable scene
• Work with external partners, including the creation of outsourcing briefs, best practice documentation, and packages to send to external art vendors
• Demonstrated professionalism in attendance, communication, reading comprehension, receiving feedback and working in a production setting
• Other duties may be assigned

Senior Cinematic Animator

Lead Systems Designer

Research Data Analyst

VFX Artist – CONTRACT