Technical Designer

Welcome to Striking Distance Studios!

Driven by people. Inspired by challenges. Relentless to deliver creative excellence.

At the intersection of art, design and technology lies Striking Distance Studios. We are a AAA development studio within the San Ramon Hills of the San Francisco Bay Area. With the release of our first title, The Callisto Protocol, we are excited to continue to grow our studio.

Here at Striking Distance Studios it is amazing people, an immersive experience and a passion for excellence that drives us each day. We are looking for people who push themselves creatively and learn with every new challenge. We give you the setting and the opportunity to do work you are proud of. We’re looking for the best to come join us and become part of a world-class team.

To us excellence is not a skill, but an attitude!

What we are looking for:
Striking Distance Studios is looking for a Technical Designer to work in a cooperative, cross-disciplinary team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design, document, and tune game mechanics, controls, and systems.
• Work with Leads, Systems Designers, Animators and Engineers to create compelling gameplay mechanics.
• Collaborate with team to ensure highest level of quality and to guarantee visibility and alignment
• Fully document design for Engineers, Prop Artists, and Animators. Creatively solve system conflicts and troubleshoot technical limitations
• Balance and tune gameplay to ensure the highest level of player engagement.
• Communicate with Production to ensure all deadlines are met
• Work with Design to create tools/workflow enhancements that can benefit the team as a whole through production.
• Work with all teams to prototype and prove out the viability of content, whether it be tools or gameplay mechanics.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3+ years AAA design.
• A strong understanding of design principles and combat design.
• Experience working in UE4/UE5
• Coding experience. Preferably with Unreal C++.
• Very Experienced with Scripting languages, and visual scripting languages. (Blueprint knowledge preferred)
• A passion and hunger to make the best games.

In California, the expected salary range for this position is $115,000-$140,000. The listed expected salary range represents a good faith estimate and the actual pay may depend on a variety of job-related factors that can include experience, education, skills, and location.

Striking Distance Studios provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Due to recent scams, our recruiters will only reach out to you via @sds.com, @krafton.com or @pubg.com. If you received an email and are unsure you can always email [email protected].