This position is for a temporary engagement through our staffing partner Yoh Services.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States for this position.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating, implementing, and owning melee systems in coordination with AI behaviors
• Collaborating with the Design team to conceptualize, prototype, implement, tune, and balance melee systems
• Communicate with animation, audio, programming, and art departments to effectively produce the assets and code support required for melee systems or set-ups
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed

Requirements & Skills:

• Significant programming ability (Computer Science undergraduate degree preferred)
• Proficient 3D math skills
• Minimum 2 years games industry experience, ideally some experience with third-person melee systems
• Experience with C++, C#, Lua, or other scripting language
• Enjoy playing melee games and can speak in a detailed way about their design and animation principles
• Able to write clean reusable code and handle complex interactions between systems
• Self-starter with excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Willingness to take design direction when offered, brainstorm, iterate and come up with fun and creative solutions

Bonus Skills:

• Maya experience with game animation
• Knowledge of fighting and melee action games, and what makes them different

As part of the Naughty Dog application process, candidates should expect to complete a design test.