Technical Designer

Job Description

As a Technical Designer, you'll create and implement complex, technical, and systemic design elements in a game.

You're essentially a game or level designer recognized for your technical skills on a design or multidisciplinary production team.

A technical reference within your team, you'll help, support, and advise your peers as needed. You may also be called upon to become the project's technical expert on a specific element of the game.

What you'll do
• Create and implement the technical elements of a game feature with technical directors, programmers, and colleagues from other job families.
• Act as a technical expert on a specific topic + oversee tools and documentation, provide technical assistance and define and promote best practices.
• Participate in data optimization and validation, taking budget into account and ensuring that technical standards are respected.
• Participate in the advanced debugging of data throughout production.
• Provide regular feedback to design directors (e.g. suggestions for improving tools and methods, etc.).
• Help test new features and tools before their launch.
• Perform production tasks within the game and level design team + prototype gameplay features.
• Design and implement more complex, abstract, technically challenging, or game-wide design elements in the game.

Qualifications

What you bring
• Experience in game or level design (with a technical focus)
• The ability to understand and communicate in technical language & clearly express your ideas (both on paper and in person)
• Flexibility + solid analysis and problem-solving skills
• A user-oriented spirit
• Curiosity: you have a passion for understanding how things work
• Experience with various game engines and platforms (nice to have)
• Experience with a range of 2D/3D design software programs (nice to have)
• Experience in programming/scripting (nice to have)

What to send our way
• Your CV highlighting your background and skills

A real live person will review your application. In this case, it's our talent acquisition specialist Charlotte.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g35jp5-3-128-255-103-42 in your application.