Crystal Dynamics, a part of the Square Enix family and the studio behind Marvel’s Avengers and the award-winning Tomb Raider franchise, is constantly on the hunt for top-tier gaming talent worldwide. We pride ourselves on attracting and developing the best talent available to concept, create, and contribute to the most exciting projects in gaming. Our 25-plus years of game development experience, as well as our combined AAA games industry pedigree, has established us as one of best studios to work for today.

Benefits for this full-time position include a competitive salary, 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options and plenty of days of paid time-off.

Position Summary

Crystal Dynamics is seeking a Senior Technical Designer that has a passion for scripting, collaborating with engineering, improving workflow pipelines, creating systems and solving tough technical design challenges. We’re looking for creative candidates that are passionate about creating the infrastructure that the design team will be using to author gameplay. Ideal candidates will have a critical eye for fun, quality, and optimized scripting solutions as well as thrive in collaborative creative environments.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Implement game features based on designs using our internal tools.
Create documentation on systems and best practices
Define and redefine workflows, improving the efficiency of other Designers.
Work with the team to conceptualize, prototype, continually iterate, balance and tune features and gameplay based on feedback.
Be an advocate of the tool base and suggest/implement improvements to internal pipelines where it makes sense.
Be an advocate for best practices and enforce authoring guidelines
Collaborate with designers and programmers to create and support systems
Autonomously propose improvements to authoring

Essential Requirements

4-6 years experience as a Technical Designer
Minimum of 1-2 shipped AAA titles
A strong motivation to empower the design team
Experience on at least one shipped AAA console title as a technical designer or systems designer
Extensive experience with visual scripting: Blueprint or equivalent experience
Knowledge and understanding of game design fundamentals
Understanding of programming principles
Solid understanding of gameplay features and asset management
Understanding of tools and work flows, ability to identify improvements for level designers
Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with your teammates across multiple locations and disciplines

Crystal Dynamics is an EOE and M/F/D/V employer