Senior Level Designer
Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Unreal Engine Gameplay Programmer
Mob Entertainment
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- 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
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional game development experience
- 1+ shipped title in Unreal Engine (preferably UE5)
- Experience with Unreal’s networking stack for Multiplayer
- Strong familiarity with Unreal Engine’s Blueprint Scripting Language
- Experience with Unreal subsystems: Animation (Montages, AnimBP), Sequencer, AI (Behavior Trees, EQS), Gameplay Ability System (GAS), Physics, and Input
- Proficiency in 3D math (vector math, linear algebra, transforms)
- Ability to take a feature from design doc to shippable implementation
- Collaborative mindset: able to translate creative vision into technical execution while communicating across departments
- Self-motivated with strong debugging and profiling skills
- Strong C++ programming skills and a clear understanding of Blueprint/C++ communication
- Bonus Skills: Experience building narrative systems or interactive sequences
- Bonus Skills: Familiarity with horror or first-person puzzle games
- Bonus Skills: Engine-level knowledge of Unreal systems or interest in core engine work
- Bonus Skills: Comfort working in a startup-style environment: fast iteration, tight collaboration, big swings
- Bonus Skills: Wearing many-hats. Broad exposure to unreal engine’s various systems is a major plus
