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# GAMEPLAY DEVELOPER (NPC BEHAVIOUR & ANIMATION SYSTEMS

- **Company:** Cyborn
- **Location:** Antwerpen, Belgium
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Animation, Video Game Development, State Machines, Unreal Engine, Software Version Control
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.cyborn.be/jobs/senior-gameplay-developer.html

## About the Role

* You have several years of professional game development experience and have shipped at least one title, preferably in the action-adventure genre.
 * You have deep hands-on experience with Unreal Engine Behavior Trees, Blackboards and Anim Blueprints.
 * You have proven experience building melee combat systems (strong plus).
 * You have a collaborative mindset: you enjoy translating a designer's vision into working systems and iterating on feedback, rather than owning design yourself.
 * You have experience with VR game development (bonus).
 * You know how to work with source control.
 * You are a problem solver with proactive technical skills.
 * You have a positive work drive and can work efficiently towards tight deadlines.
 * You are willing to work on location in Antwerp, Belgium.

## Description

Cyborn is looking for a senior gameplay developer experienced in Unreal Engine Behavior Trees, Blackboards and Anim Blueprints to build the NPC behaviour and character animation systems for our ambitious new VR action-adventure title. You will implement systems designed by our game designer and creative director, working in a close-knit iterative loop where fun systems are prototyped, tested, refined and born together.

What will you do

 * You will implement enemy and NPC behaviour based on designs from the game designer and creative director, using Behavior Trees, Blackboards and perception systems (line-of-sight, alarm states, patrol, guard and attack behaviour).
 * You will build and maintain Animation Blueprints, montages, blend spaces and state machines for player and NPC characters.
 * You will implement melee and ranged combat systems (hit detection, reactions, timing windows, weapon handling) tuned for VR.
 * You will work in a tight iteration loop with design, creative direction and animation: build, test in-headset, refine - until it's fun.
 * You communicate daily with the production manager.


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