Systems Designer

Epic Games • Cary, NC

1d • $112,055 - $180,782

About The Position

WHAT MAKES US EPIC? At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. DESIGN What We Do Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic. What You'll Do Epic Games is looking for a Systems Designer to build progression and economy-related game features on a new game project. This includes designing and prototyping the features, working with a cross-disciplinary development team to implement them, and finally creating the high-level scripting and content required to realize them in-game fully. In this role, you will Design, prototype, and collaborate with other Designers and project leadership to ensure your systems deliver the desired player experience and achieve other project goals Communicate the vision for these features to developers across multiple disciplines, and ensure they have the information needed to implement them quickly and effectively Solicit and integrate feedback from across the team, ensuring we’re delivering the best version of your systems to our players Create the scripting/data/content required by those systems, iterating from early prototypes to final shippable quality Expand and iterate on those systems once they’re in the live environment, ensuring the game remains exciting and engaging to players over the long term

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience shipping titles as a Systems Designer, working on progression, economy, and/or engagement features and content
• Demonstrated talent for empathizing with players and a deep understanding of player motivations, forms of play, and the effects of progression and goal setting on play
• Strong interest in game progression and economies, and an understanding of what makes them work
• Able to react quickly to changing project needs, drive decisions, and then own that vision
• You’re player-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative; These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on live-service multiplayer environments is preferred

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and collaborate with other Designers and project leadership to ensure your systems deliver the desired player experience and achieve other project goals
• Communicate the vision for these features to developers across multiple disciplines, and ensure they have the information needed to implement them quickly and effectively
• Solicit and integrate feedback from across the team, ensuring we’re delivering the best version of your systems to our players
• Create the scripting/data/content required by those systems, iterating from early prototypes to final shippable quality
• Expand and iterate on those systems once they’re in the live environment, ensuring the game remains exciting and engaging to players over the long term

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed