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Valve is an entertainment and technology company driven to design and deliver world-class entertainment experiences to customers. We hire people with broad skill sets who also exhibit deep expertise. Psychologists at Valve contribute to a wide variety of initiatives across the company and are trusted to prioritize their work in collaboration with their peers.
Here are a few ways you could utilize your knowledge of experimental design, research methods, statistics, and human behavior to help us:
- Craft compelling gameplay experiences for future Valve titles/li>
- Provide insights on human behavior to improve customer experiences on Steam, our game distribution platform
- Conduct statistical analyses on Valve's gameplay, financial, and company data to identify patterns of behavior
- Research compelling new hardware technologies
- Design experiments to evaluate various gameplay hypotheses and design choices
- Improve existing playtesting methodologies
- Develop innovative ways of acquiring data to answer questions about Valve's products and business practices
Qualifications
Minimum
- A Graduate Degree in Psychology or related field
- Advanced knowledge of statistics
- Proven experience applying research skills to the development of consumer products and services
- Research experience in cognitive, social, human factors, and related fields in psychology
Preferred
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C++, Python, SQL, and PHP