Level Designer

ZeniMax Media • Austin, TX

338d • $55,000 - $140,000

About The Position

Join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America's best cities. With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we'd love to hear from you!

Requirements

• Excellent sense of 3D game space and environmental storytelling
• Experience designing, building, and populating game levels
• Experience with text-based scripting languages
• Shipped a project from start to finish
• Strong familiarity with a variety of open world games
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Self-driven, with a strong focus and attention to detail
• Experience with the Creation Kit
• Must provide a portfolio featuring examples of work

Nice To Haves

• Professional Level Design experience
• Experience with level design using modular kits
• Creative writing skills
• Experience with quest tools
• Strong familiarity with BGS games

Responsibilities

• Create high quality open world level content
• Use a proprietary toolset to design, build, script, and optimize game areas
• Work closely with the vision of the lead level designer to ensure consistency, scope, and quality of content
• Work closely with environment art, quest design and systems design teams to ensure game areas meet established art and design goals
• Regularly play game content and provide constructive feedback to fellow designers
• Maintain legacy content and make required bug fixes
• Be able to multi-task and contribute to strike teams for multiple world levels at a time

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits
• 401(k) plan and company match
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick and mental health time
• Several paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees