Senior Unity Game Engineer (Remote)

This is a remote position which requires regular collaboration online during our core work hours (9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Pacific), attending relevant team meetings (e.g. daily scrum, retrospectives, sprint planning, and design meetings). Occasional evening calls should be expected for collaboration with overseas vendors. The option to convert to full-time employee may be available to ideal candidates, depending on their location, skills, fit, project needs and schedule, and funding. H-1B transfers and sponsorships are not available at this time.

Quests

• Design, implement, and improve…
• Narrative: Integration with authoring, dialog, localization, and voiceover tools and content.
• Combat: Vehicle physics, damage states, targeting, firing arcs, line of sight, area of effect.
• Maps and Scenes: Travel, POI availability and interactions, encounters.
• Backend: Save file system, achievements, DLC support.
• Tools: Level design, unit and stats configuration, map editor, narrative editor.[
• Lead engineering efforts, mentoring, effectively coordinating and delegating engineering duties.
• Prototype new gameplay ideas and mechanics.
• Creatively apply engineering best practices to implement architecture and programming for our games.
• Own and support our DevOps pipelines utilizing tools including Unity Cloud Build and Bitbucket.
• Identify and modify existing frameworks according to our project needs, building some game frameworks and subsystems from scratch as needed.
• Engage in all aspects of game programming: Systems, UI / UX, APIs, internationalization and localization, optimization, and instrumentation.
• Expand games from PC to console platforms.
• Troubleshoot code and fix bugs.
• Mentor junior programmers.
• Educate and explain programming concerns to the rest of the Development Team.
• Work with the Design Team to maintain UX quality throughout the development process.
• Actively collaborate with the rest of the Development Team, openly communicating progress and problems, helping us set realistic project timelines and expectations.
• Participate in internal game testing and feedback.
• Help to create and maintain core technical documentation.
• Balance and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines, working within agreed timeframes and budgets.

Do you have experience in Unity?, Experience: Senior Level, 8+ years of professional Unity videogame engineering experience developing for PC / console. Must have successfully shipped game titles in the senior engineering role.

Location: USA or Canada (Remote) - Must reside within the UTC-4 to UTC-8 timezones., We are looking for a creative and resourceful Senior Gameplay Engineer with effective leadership skills, a clear understanding of Unity programming, experience developing combat AI systems, a logical and systemic thinker, with an iterative approach to development, a collaborative spirit, excellent communication skills, and an enthusiasm for RPG and turn-based videogames. The ideal candidate enjoys working with talented engineers, designers, writers, artists, and management, with a drive to create a fun and cohesive gameplay experience, able to empathize with both new players and with experts of the genre.

The ideal candidate communicates effectively in a small cross-functional remote team environment, clearly presenting their ideas to stakeholders for signoff. They bring a passion for working within an iterative development environment, having a collaborative spirit and an enthusiasm for videogames., * 8+ years of experience as a Unity software engineer through the full lifecycle of game development from start to finish: concept, design, prototyping, programming, content creation, testing, optimization, launch, support.

• Strong Unity programming experience, specifically with turn-based combat games for PC / console.
• Experienced creating and balancing combat AI.
• Deep understanding of Unity and the performance impact of game architecture.
• Adept at object-oriented programming and design principles using C# and the .NET platform.
• Familiar with software engineering best practices, design patterns, and unit testing.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, resourceful, able to find solutions when needed.
• Enthusiastic for quality gameplay and a familiarity with many games and genres, past and present.
• Strong self-discipline, motivated, a self-starter with a drive for excellence.
• Organized, detail-oriented, able to work fast and loose or carefully with quality when each is needed.
• Courteous and patient, able to give and receive constructive and inspirational feedback gracefully.
• Able to work effectively with people having a variety of personalities and backgrounds.
• Wise leadership skills with high emotional intelligence, a respected mentor across disciplines.
• Adaptable: The job can change according to the needs at hand and requires wearing various hats.
• Able to work remotely using various collaboration tools.
• Strong written, visual, and verbal English language communication and presentation skills.
• Familiar with design diagramming techniques using UML.
• Experienced working with professional narrative authoring tools (e.g. Articy, Arcweave, Pixel Crushers).
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Visio.
• Passionate to learn new tools and technologies.

Bonus Points

• Familiar with Pixel Crushers’ Dialogue System for Unity.
• Familiar with Dark Tonic’s Master Audio.
• Experienced using creative tools (e.g. Adobe Photoshop, Blender, 3ds Max, Figma).
• Experienced with XML processing, DOM, SAX, XSD, XPath, and XSLT.
• Located in one of our hub metros: Seattle, Los Angeles, or Edmonton.

$62 - $75 an hour - Temp-to-hire, Pay: $62 - $75 USD per hour - Depends on skills and experience.

Seismic Squirrel is a talented and passionate team of both industry veterans and enthusiastic newcomers. We share a strong desire to tell fascinating stories supporting engaging gameplay mechanics.