Cathodic Protection Designer
E2 Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Senior Game Designer – Level Design
That's No Moon
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Los Angeles • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $120,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Own and deliver gameplay spaces from concept to final polish, blending exploration, narrative, and combat into cohesive player experiences.
- Collaborate with animation, art, tech designers and engineering to develop levels, gameplay systems, and pipelines that support world-class design execution.
- Create and maintain Unreal Engine assets, scripting gameplay logic, events, and interactions using Blueprints, Sequencer, and related tools.
- When needed, design and implement combat encounters within levels. This includes initial setup, iteration, and collaboration with dedicated combat encounter designers.
- Partner with production and leadership to define priorities, scope, and milestones for level development.
- Drive iteration between disciplines, balancing creative vision, technical feasibility, and player experience.
- Provide mentorship and feedback to other designers, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing across the team.
Requirements
- Deep experience building levels in Unreal Engine from concept to completion, including layout, loading, optimization and balancing mechanical with narrative goals.
- Comprehensive understanding of scripting in a variety of contexts, including blueprints, animation and presentation systems.
- Passion for interactive narrative in all its forms and familiarity with complexity involved in bringing it to quality.
- Excellent debugging skills and a solid understanding of scripting architecture at scale a significant plus.
- Comfortable designing and implementing combat encounters when needed, with a working knowledge of AI behaviors and player flow.
- Comprehensive understanding of spatial markup techniques and nav implementation.
- Strong sense of spatial design, readability, pacing, and player guidance.
- Excellent cross-disciplinary communication skills and ability to collaborate in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated ability to take content from prototype to polished final implementation.
- Passion for creating immersive, high-quality player experiences that balance gameplay and narrative.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) match
- Flexible PTO
- Supplemental life and disability
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Unreal EngineBlueprintsSequencerscriptinglevel designcombat encounter designdebuggingspatial markup techniquesAI behaviorsplayer flow
Soft skills
collaborationmentorshipcommunicationcreativityiterationproblem-solvingfeedbackteamworkadaptabilitypassion for narrative