Game Engineer

• Design and prototype open-world environments end to end, from blockout through gameplay-ready spaces
• Balance visual spectacle with moment-to-moment playability
• Define layouts and flow of large spaces, including sightlines, landmarks, traversal routes, choke points, and pacing
• Design and implement critical paths, secondary routes, shortcuts, and traversal options for multiple playstyles
• Conceive, place, and iterate on Points of Interest, including purpose, encounter structure, rewards, and role in the player's broader journey
• Build interactive environmental gameplay such as traversal mechanics, destructibles, hazards, puzzles, and systemic interactions
• Rapidly prototype in-engine using scripting, visual scripting, or code, prioritizing playable builds over documents
• Present design intent and prototypes to leads, stakeholders, and cross-discipline partners
• Incorporate critique constructively
• Develop content during iterative, feedback-driven production from rough concept to polished, playable content

Environment Gameplay Designer

• Create polished first-person weapon animations, including firing, reloads, weapon handling, inspections, melee, equipment use, and other gameplay interactions
• Use traditional animation fundamentals to craft stylized to hyper-realistic game motions
• Maintain clear weapon readability, strong posing, convincing weight, and responsive timing from the player’s perspective
• Animate and refine first-person camera motion to support gameplay clarity, impact, and presentation
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, tech artists, riggers, modelers, and other animators to solve creative and technical problems
• Implement, test, and debug animation in the game engine or proprietary tools
• Respond to feedback and iterate efficiently to achieve AAA-level polish
• Help identify workflow or pipeline improvements that increase animation team efficiency and quality
• Communicate progress, risks, technical issues, and creative intent to partners and leads
• Support development of animation standards, documentation, and reusable animation systems

Viewmodel Gameplay Animator – Contract

• Build and extend photorealistic digital twin environments in Unreal Engine 5
• Implement real-time simulation and visualization of industrial systems, robotic fleets and logistics operations
• Connect Unreal Engine visualizations to real-time telemetry, sensor inputs and machine learning output from SAS analytics pipelines
• Develop and optimize Blueprints and C++ modules for simulation logic, physical system behavior and user interaction
• Implement dynamic asset loading and level streaming
• Integrate and extend Unreal Engine plugins, including the SAS Connector and third-party plugins
• Profile, diagnose and resolve performance and stability issues using Unreal Insights and engine profiling tools
• Document performance and stability findings for the team
• Follow and improve pipeline management and version-control standards using Perforce and Plastic SCM
• Participate in open-source projects on behalf of SAS
• Follow applicable security policies and processes supporting secure software development goals
• Collaborate with IoT engineers, optimization experts, software architects, engineers, artists and analysts

Unreal Developer

• Lead the design and development of photorealistic digital twin environments in Unreal Engine 5
• Integrate real-time simulation and visualization of industrial systems, robotic fleets and logistics operations
• Collaborate with optimization experts, IoT engineers and software architects to build immersive, data-driven experiences
• Connect Unreal Engine visualizations to real-time telemetry, sensor inputs and machine learning output from SAS analytics pipelines
• Develop and optimize custom Blueprints and C++ modules for simulation logic, physical system behavior and user interaction
• Implement dynamic asset loading, level streaming and runtime procedural generation for scalable digital twin scenarios
• Evaluate, integrate and extend Unreal Engine plugins, including SAS Connector and third-party plugins
• Drive best practices in Unreal Engine pipeline management, Perforce, Plastic SCM, cloud services, REST APIs and digital twin orchestration layers
• Mentor junior developers
• Contribute to long-term technical strategy for digital twin innovation across the enterprise
• Participate in open-source projects on behalf of SAS
• Follow applicable security policies and processes supporting secure software development goals

Senior Unreal Developer

• Own and operate the entire Unity product surface, with full architectural autonomy and per-platform customisation
• Build and manage open source publishing for LoopMe’s Unity packages, applying licensing best practices
• Establish and run CI/CD pipelines for the Unity product surface
• Drive parity between native iOS and Android platforms through proactive cross-team collaboration
• Build generic, reusable tooling that Unity packages across the SDK portfolio can share
• Develop and maintain LoopMe’s Unity validator app
• Manage Unity license administration across the SDK organisation
• Partner with QE on cross-platform testing and support integration partners with clear SDK documentation
• Report to the VP Engineering, SDK

Lead Unity SDK Engineer

• Own gameplay animation features from concept through completion, including reference gathering, prototyping, asset creation, engine integration, debugging, and polish
• Create character movement and action animations for locomotion, directional changes, stance transitions, traversal, and combat interactions
• Contribute to first-person animation, full-body movement, weapon handling, and camera feedback
• Partner with designers and programmers to refine movement responsiveness, action timing, transitions, interruption behavior, weight, and physicality
• Build and refine animation graphs, state machines, blend setups, and animation layers in the project engine and tools
• Use keyframe animation and motion-capture workflows
• Evaluate work in playable builds, diagnose animation issues, and collaborate across disciplines to resolve them
• Improve workflows and address runtime, asset, and production constraints with technical animation and engineering teams
• At Lead level, guide feature planning, establish quality benchmarks, provide feedback, and mentor teammates while creating and implementing animation directly

Senior/Lead Gameplay Animator – 3C, FPS

• Join the Guild Wars 3 team at ArenaNet
• Partner with designers and other disciplines to prototype, build, and iterate on gameplay systems and features
• Translate design goals into practical technical solutions, including options and tradeoffs
• Develop high-quality gameplay code in C++ and Unreal Engine
• Diagnose, debug, and optimize gameplay systems for performance and stability
• Participate in regular playtests and use feedback to iterate on features and systems
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical teammates to establish workflows, constraints, and development practices
• Share Unreal Engine knowledge and best practices with teammates
• Help troubleshoot gameplay and engine-related challenges

Game Engineer jobs in United States