Senior Technical Designer
Mediatonic
- Vancouver, BC
- $122,375-179,484 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Contribute and help guide the design, vision, and outcome for scenario content that supports broad systematic framework needs - new systems, world content, IP integrations, amplifying it, and bringing all elements together
- Guide systemic solutions that allow our procedural content generation to intelligently place encounters and adapt gameplay to procedural environments with the goal of creating multiplicatively infinite replayability
- Identify shortcomings in workflows you encounter and either fix them yourself, or refer them to the proper programming resources
- Assess technical debt in the systems you touch, and take ownership over reducing or managing that debt
- Stay fully versed in the current and long-term design objectives of your design group, and represent those objectives in programming discussions
- Make key UX decisions in how tools and workflows should function
- Set up reusable and generalizable systems with Unreal blueprints for your design group to use
- Your primary skill set should be Technical Game System Design: data asset architecture; strong software architecture in Blueprints; algorithm efficiency and robustness; and impeccable ability to translate between programmers and designers
- Strong interest in survival and sandbox games with an understanding of what makes them work
- 3+ years experience in procedural content systems, with a strong ability to describe their rules at a systemic level
- A background in combat encounters, patrol markup, and AI hinting
- Solution-oriented problem solver who can react quickly to changing project needs and drive decisions