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- Netflix
- Los Angeles, CA
- Remote
$90,000 - $600,000a year
The position demands a blend of expert knowledge of game design and game systems and expertise in working with the Unity and Unreal game engines to make game design a reality. ... Game Mechanics: Innovate and refine game mechanics through AI ...
Full-Time
Retirement Plan
Sabbatical Program
Python
401(k)
Unity
NEW
4 days ago
- Netflix
- Los Angeles, CA
$220,000 - $440,000a year
Experience: At least 7 years in the game industry, with 5 years as a Creative Director or Game Director and a portfolio of shipped games. Proven track record in establishing and maintaining design direction and delivering high-quality narrative games.
Full-Time
401(k)
Retirement Plan
Stock Option
Paid Time Off
Sabbatical Program
NEW
4 days ago
- Netflix
- Los Angeles, CA
From $500,000a year
Partner with the Games leadership team to design and implement comprehensive roadmaps for assigned game genres, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic vision and goals. ... Responsible for meeting the creative quality of the games within ...
Full-Time / Part-Time / Contract
Stock Option
401(k)
Retirement Plan
Sabbatical Program
MBA
NEW
2 days ago
- Daybreak Games
- San Diego, CA
- Remote
$125,000 - $160,000a year
We are the game publisher for Darkpaw Studios, Rogue Planet Gaming Studio, Dimensional Ink Games, and Standing Stone Games. ... Daybreak San Diego is the home of Darkpaw Games, creators of the legendary EverQuest and EverQuest II games.
Full-Time
30+ days ago
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- PlayStation
- Los Angeles, CA
$117,100 - $175,700a year
We are seeking a Game Designer - Systems based on location in our LA studio, who will report directly to the Principal Game Designer. ... 3+ years of experience in game design, with a focus on systems design in the games industry, preferably ...
Full-Time
Health Insurance
Paid Time Off
Employee Discount
NEW
5 days ago
- Spellbrush
- San Francisco, CA
- Fully Remote
$60,000 - $180,000a year
Part of working with our team will involve looking at our latest research results, and figuring out how to best apply it into the game. ... We are looking for an experienced game engineer with strong C# and Unity skills. You will be working closely ...
Full-Time
Unity
C#
RPGs
9 days ago
- Netflix
- Los Angeles, CA
$180,000 - $250,000a year
8+ years of game studio development experience shipping multiple games. ... Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide ...
Full-Time
Retirement Plan
401(k)
Sabbatical Program
Paid Time Off
Stock Option
NEW
5 days ago
- Skybound
- Los Angeles, CA 90035 (Faircrest Heights / Beverlywood / Cadillac-Corning area)
$140,000 - $180,000a year
Skybound Games produces, publishes and distributes video and tabletop games across all genres, including the multi-million-unit selling The Walking Dead video game series. ... We love thrilling games, indelible images and moving stories.
Full-Time
Life Insurance
Health Insurance
Wellness Reimbursement
Parental Leave
401(k)
30+ days ago
- Discord
- San Francisco, CA
$183,000 - $201,500a year
... video games. ... Practical experience building games, or tools to support game developers ... We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.
Full-Time
TypeScript
Korean
Mandarin
Unity
React.js
NEW
5 days ago
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Irvine, CA 92618
- Remote
$146,000 - $270,004a year
As an experienced engineer on our Game Security Engineering team, you will shape the technology that protects our games and have an impact across the gaming industry! ... Expand and advance game security coverage into new territory through ...
Full-Time / Part-Time / Temporary
C++
Relocation Assistance
Docker
Health Insurance
Java
30+ days ago
- Amazon
- San Diego, CA
From $151,300a year
Amazon Games is seeking a highly effective Senior Game Developer - AI/ML to build and integrate innovative AI systems and tools into our game pipelines and customer experiences. ... Collaborate with game teams—directly embedding when required—to ...
Internship
Pytorch
TensorFlow
Unity
Bachelor's Degree
30+ days ago
- Meta
- Los Angeles, CA
- Remote
$165,000a year
As a Game Design Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of game designers to prototype, design, and ship first-party experiences across Horizon Worlds. ... Advocate for game design and help us build a great, welcoming, and ...
Internship
Flexible Schedule
Commuter Benefits Program
Unity
Health Insurance
401(k)
NEW
4 days ago
- Meta
- San Mateo, CA
- Remote
$165,000a year
Advocate for game design and help us build a great, welcoming, and inclusive game design community within Reality Labs and throughout Meta ... As a Technical Game Designer on the Meta Horizon team, you'll be at the forefront of prototyping, ...
Internship
Flexible Schedule
Adoption Assistance
401(k)
Sabbatical Program
Fertility Benefits
NEW
4 days ago
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Irvine, CA 92618
$134,000 - $247,900a year
As a Game Design Director, you will collaborate with other game leadership to guide the future of Hearthstone, and be relentless in your pursuit of quality and championing the player. ... Active player of a variety of titles, especially mobile ...
Full-Time / Part-Time / Temporary
Tuition Reimbursement
iOS
Paid Time Off
Paid Sick Time
Health Insurance
30+ days ago
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Irvine, CA
- Remote
$80,800 - $149,400a year
5+ years’ experience in the video game industry working as a level designer, having shipped at least one AAA title. ... Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last ...
Full-Time / Part-Time / Temporary
Relocation Assistance
Paid Sick Time
Paid Time Off
MAYA
Health Savings Account
NEW
5 days ago
- Skybound
- Los Angeles, CA 90035 (Faircrest Heights / Beverlywood / Cadillac-Corning area)
$130,000 - $160,000a year
Skybound Games produces, publishes and distributes video and tabletop games across all genres, including the multi-million-unit selling The Walking Dead video game series. ... We love thrilling games, indelible images and moving stories.
Full-Time
Wellness Reimbursement
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Tuition Reimbursement
Parental Leave
30+ days ago
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Irvine, CA
$124,400 - $230,300a year
... to deliver best-in-class game content for a new, unannounced game. ... At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. ... managing the workflow and pipeline of outsourced game assets. Expert understanding of ...
Full-Time / Part-Time / Permanent / Temporary / Contract
Health Savings Account
Android
Relocation Assistance
Health Insurance
Disability Insurance
NEW
3 days ago
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Irvine, CA 92618
- Remote
$116,800 - $216,000a year
Principal Animator - Unannounced Game | Irvine, CA ... Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than ...
Full-Time / Part-Time / Temporary
Android
Health Insurance
Paid Sick Time
Health Savings Account
Paid Time Off
30+ days ago
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Irvine, CA 92618
$155,500 - $287,876a year
We are seeking an experienced game AI engineering leader to help populate our game with compelling inhabitants, present players with interesting challenges, and bring our world to life. ... Experience delivering AI behaviors for a modern, ...
Full-Time / Part-Time / Temporary
iOS
Paid Time Off
Relocation Assistance
Health Savings Account
Android
30+ days ago
- Intrepid Studios
- San Diego, CA
$98,000 - $137,000a year
Help establish best practices for test automation, QA workflows, and game testing methodologies. ... We are seeking a Game QA Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team. ... Experience in automated custom game automation frameworks.
Full-Time
JavaScript
Git
401(k) Matching
401(k)
C#
24 days ago

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Lead Technical Game Designer, Games Innovation

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Company
Netflix
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Job Type
Full-Time
Salary
$90,000 - $600,000 a year

Remote

Retirement Plan

Sabbatical Program

Python

401(k)

Unity

Stock Option

Paid Time Off

Description

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

ABOUT OUR TEAM:

The GenAI for Games team at Netflix aspires to transform game development and player experiences using generative AI. We are working to both increase the velocity of development and also unlock truly novel game experiences that will surprise, delight, and inspire players. We are focused on a creator-first vision and approach for AI, one that puts creative talent at the center, with AI being a catalyst and an accelerant. We work with multiple external partners on projects to deliver AI-enabled and AI-powered games to the Netflix service, and we also have an internal team exploring what is possible with this new technology.

ABOUT THE JOB:

As the Lead Technical Game Designer supporting GenAI for games, your role will be a dynamic blend of excellence in game design leadership and implementation. As a design leader, you will guide, influence, and uplevel approaches to game design and game design thinking primarily as a part of a small but mighty game innovation team but also will be asked to consult more broadly across the wider organization and with partners. The right candidate will also be expertly hands-on, and as part of the team’s concrete game prototypes and projects, you will plan, build, iterate and improve systems and gameplay central to the player experience in our different game prototypes.

The position demands a blend of expert knowledge of game design and game systems and expertise in working with the Unity and Unreal game engines to make game design a reality. You will work in collaboration with gameplay engineers and data scientists.

Great ideas can come from anybody. As part of that design leadership, the ideal candidate will not only contribute to the pool of game concepts and designs, but help other team members hone and bring their ideas as game design challenges emerge.

Responsibilities extend from coding exceptional gameplay features to integrating various game elements such as characters, animations, VFX, and UI—either independently or in collaboration with artists. The ideal candidate will possess a comprehensive understanding of game development and demonstrate the autonomy needed to deliver a compelling user experience focused on player engagement. Additionally, they should be eager to invest in learning and exploring new, possibly unfamiliar, technologies to keep our games innovative and exciting.

Additionally, you will also be contributing to game design leadership, evaluation, and guidance in collaboration with the organization’s leadership team to evaluate and advise with external game teams that we will be partnering with in this exciting space.

Responsibilities

Design:
- Plan and lead design and development of new gameplay features.
- Help figure out which games concepts, game designs or mechanics best showcase and guide the cool new technologies that are key to Netflix games
- Demonstrate taste when making aesthetic design decisions for the game type with a strong bias towards member/player value.
- Balance pacing and economics across complex multiplayer systems.
- Visionary Thinking: Contribute to the long-term vision of our games, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in interactive entertainment.
- Write high quality Design Documents.
- Feedback and guidance for partner game teams

Collaboration:
- Contribute to the game design of all projects in the team by helping and collaborating with the other developers in the team.
- Coordinate with cross functional of programming, creative direction, art, production and design that are internal to the team but also external to other teams.
- Creative Initiative: Thrive in an environment that encourages stepping out of one’s comfort zone to drive creative aspects of game experiments and development.

Implementation:
- Prototype Development: Direct hands-on contribution to building those products. Actively participate in the rapid prototyping of new game concepts. Ensure effective utilization of AI technologies to elevate gameplay.
- Game Mechanics: Innovate and refine game mechanics through AI technologies and conventional game mechanics that make great games.

Requirements

7+ years of professional game design work experience, including at least 2 years as a senior lead designer.
Shipped at least 2 commercial games in a game design role with a team of 10+ people, ideally across a variety of game types and systems
Deep experience with system design.
Experience leading collaborative game design rigor and thinking on or across teams
Exceptional communication, cross discipline collaboration skills. Strong English communication skills, both verbal and writing game design documents.
Good knowledge and experience with Unity and Unreal5
Coding/scripting expertise, such as C#, Lua, Python, C++, etc
Experience with creating blueprints in Unreal and C# scripting in Unity
Passion for making video games, especially in a rapid, focused, smaller form vs multi-year investments
Excited by the usage of gen AI in games.

Nice To Have

Familiarity with the life-sim genre, especially stardew valley
Experience working with procedurally generated content
Social design experience with an emphasis on emergent multiplayer joy
Experience building games for early or unfinished platforms
Technical art experience for character and animation.

Location:

Los Gatos, CA /Los Angeles, CA - Preferred
Remote : United States or Canada will be considered
- Traveling once a month to the Los Gatos office will be expected.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $90,000 - $600,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

: Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA

: Salary
90000 - 600000 / YEAR

: Job type
FULL_TIME

: Company
Netflix

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