Title: Senior Systems Engineer - Gameplay

Reports To: Director of Engineering

Employment: Full-Time Salaried

Term: February 2017

Location: Carlsbad, CA

Job Description: Senior Systems Engineer - Gameplay

The Senior Systems Engineer with emphasis on Gameplay works with the game’s Technical Director to drive moment-to-moment gameplay for our VR strategy titles. This individual is comfortable working within an established framework and toolset to translate high level gameplay concepts to tangible VR experiences, while exercising significant creative freedom in the implementation and iteration of these concepts. The ideal candidate combines a creative eye for game design with deep experience crafting compelling core gameplay.

Responsibilities

  • Implement, iterate and polish gameplay systems
  • Work with designers to combine gameplay systems into features
  • Create development tools that aid in development and tuning of gameplay systems
  • Contribute to Experiment 7's engineering culture by improving our core architecture, institutional knowledge and gameplay technology best practices.

Qualifications

  • Significant gameplay engineering expertise and experience
  • Experience writing performant code
  • Proven ability to work with an established codebase and architecture
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • A deep love of games

Beneficial Experience

  • VR development
  • Expert level Unity knowledge
  • Expert level C# knowledge
  • Gameplay balancing/tuning
  • Real-time or turn-based strategy games gameplay
  • Board games gameplay
  • Writing and maintaining technical design documentation

If you feel you're a match for the position, please apply below. If we see a fit, we will be in touch with you soon.

About Experiment 7

Experiment 7 is a VR games studio based in New York and San Diego. We develop high quality strategy games with broad market appeal. Our staff combines battle-tested game design leadership with unparalleled game data expertise and a dream team of VR, mobile, console and PC veterans. We believe in collaborative creative development, sound quality of life and an uncompromising commitment to product quality.