Mob Entertainment

Engineering Manager

• Define and drive the studio’s technical strategy across gameplay engineering, game systems, tools, performance, and platform support.
• Partner with creative, production, and design leaders to align technical execution with game vision and business goals.
• Establish engineering standards, processes, and staffing plans that scale with the team and product roadmap.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks across gameplay features, backend systems, and performance goals.
• Oversee the development of gameplay features, character mechanics, AI systems, physics interactions, and animation integrations.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of core game systems—including engine extensions, save systems, frameworks, data pipelines, networking components, and optimization paths.
• Ensure systems and gameplay engineering teams deliver clean, scalable, maintainable code in alignment with studio best practices.
• Provide technical direction and hands-on guidance in complex engineering challenges.
• Manage and grow a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including Leads, Senior Engineers, and technical specialists.
• Build a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers in career development, technical skills, and leadership capabilities.
• Work closely with Production to define milestones, scope, schedules, and resourcing.
• Collaborate with Art and Design to translate creative concepts into technically feasible solutions.
• Champion quality by working closely with QA, ensuring performance, stability, and reliability across all releases.
• Oversee build pipelines, version control workflows, automation processes, and CI/CD strategies.
• Guide performance optimization efforts across platforms and hardware specifications.
• Ensure smooth releases and patches through close coordination with publishing, QA, and support teams.
• Evaluate, adopt, and integrate new technologies, tools, or workflows.

Engineering Director

Game Engineer

• Join a cross-functional team building rich, tactile, and cinematic gameplay experiences in Unreal Engine 5
• Prototype, build, and polish gameplay systems and player-facing mechanics (AI, interactive systems, player abilities, camera logic)
• Collaborate with design and engineering to implement player mechanics, tools, puzzles, and interactive sequences
• Balance performance and maintainability when building gameplay code, ensuring scalability for the project
• Dig deep into the Unreal Engine and core systems (input, physics, animation, GAS, etc.) to build clean, robust foundations for gameplay features
• Utilize and extend existing systems to implement gameplay features based on design specifications with regards to multiplayer replication
• Work directly with other programmers to debug issues, refactor systems, and support pipeline tools
• Ship features, iterate rapidly, and uphold performance, scalability, and clarity for designers and artists

Unreal Engine Gameplay Programmer

• Join Mob Entertainment on a contract basis to help develop the next release and expand the Poppy Playtime franchise.
• Develop gameplay features using Unreal Engine 5 and FLECS ECS architecture.
• Implement and optimize entity behaviors, AI interactions, movement systems, and state management within FLECS.
• Support core gameplay mechanics and ensure integration with procedural and systemic design goals.
• Debug, optimize, and polish gameplay systems for performance stability and maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with Lead Engineer, Designers, engineers, and artists to resolve technical challenges.
• Contribute to Unreal Engine Blueprint and C++ scripting to implement gameplay logic.
• Provide technical support for debugging physics, animation interactions, and overall system performance.
• Document technical findings, best practices, and solutions for team knowledge-sharing.

Gameplay Programmer, Unreal, Flecs

Systems Engineer

• Design, implement, and maintain gameplay systems using Flecs ECS and StateTree in Unreal Engine 5.
• Author and manage ECS components, systems, and queries for scalable, data-driven gameplay features.
• Refactor and stabilize existing MVP systems, resolving crashes, edge cases, and performance issues.
• Collaborate with design and technical design teams to ensure systems are usable, extensible, and intuitive.
• Build debug tools, diagnostic hooks, and testable runtime logic to improve cross-discipline workflows.
• Take ownership of assigned systems from spec to final polish—without needing constant direction or support.
• Provide light engineering support for areas such as QA tooling, telemetry, or porting, where applicable.
• Reports to: Lead Engineer / Director of Technology.
• Works with: Gameplay Designers, Technical Designers, QA, Production.
• Primary Tech: Unreal Engine 5, Flecs, StateTree, C++, Perforce.
• Contract Duration: Now through October 15th, 2025.

Senior Gameplay Systems Engineer

3D Artist

• Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio best known for the indie horror game Poppy Playtime; franchise widely popular with fans.
• Design and build highly realistic, atmospheric environments for horror games, focusing on grounded, immersive interior spaces.
• Own full environment scenes from blockout to final polish using modeling, texturing, and lighting fundamentals.
• Apply advanced understanding of composition, form, light, color, and shape to guide the player's eye and amplify psychological tension.
• Utilize modularity, trimming, and reusability techniques to build flexible, performant assets and environments in Unreal Engine.
• Translate reference and narrative direction into compelling visuals supporting gameplay and mood-driven storytelling.
• Collaborate closely with level design, lighting, materials, and tech art to ensure visual targets and gameplay functionality are met.
• Conduct regular polish passes to ensure visual consistency and high-quality asset usage.
• Provide feedback on environment execution across pods to reinforce artistic quality and horror tone.

Engineering Director

Unreal Engine Gameplay Programmer

Gameplay Programmer, Unreal, Flecs

Senior Gameplay Systems Engineer

Senior Environment Artist