Senior Gameplay Engineer, Gameplay

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Senior Gameplay Engineer, Gameplay

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At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. Through unparalleled creativity and storytelling, we create immersive universes and iconic characters that are beloved across platforms, borders, backgrounds, and generations - only made possible by building a work environment that nurtures the artistry of game development and unleashes the aspirations of our people.

As a Senior Gameplay Engineer on our Open World team, you will collaborate closely with designers and artists to prototype, implement, and polish high-quality AAA open world content and the gameplay features that support it. You will help build scalable, repeatable gameplay systems and interactions that remain reliable and performant across a wide variety of player states and world environments. You will also own larger open world features end-to-end, contribute to technical direction and raise the quality bar through scalable implementation patterns, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

This role is anticipated to be a full-time, hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

• Partner with open world designers to prototype, implement, and iterate on open world content from early concepts through shippable quality.
• Own substantial open world gameplay features end-to-end, including implementation, iteration, polish, and ongoing maintenance.
• Contribute to technical direction within the team's scope by establishing scalable content patterns and practical guardrails that improve consistency and reduce rework.
• Deliver gameplay features that remain robust across many instances, varied player states, and complex runtime conditions typical of open world gameplay.
• Use your experience to improve open world iteration speed by strengthening workflows, debugging visibility, and validation suited for high-volume content.
• Profile and optimize open world content and gameplay features to help ensure stable, release-quality execution.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary and technical partners to diagnose issues and drive fixes to resolution.
• Contribute to healthy engineering practices through frequent readable commits, constructive code reviews, and lightweight documentation, and help unblock others through timely guidance.
• Champion Blizzard’s core values and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive team culture.

• 5+ years of experience in gameplay engineering or a combination of applicable training and related experience.
• Engineering contributions to at least one shipped AAA game title or similarly complex real-time interactive product.
• Experience delivering AAA-quality features and experiences as part of a cross-functional team including designers, artists, animators, level designers, FX artists, etc.
• Experience working on real-time 3D games.
• Ability to understand and write production-grade C++ code.
• Capacity to make frequent, readable, well-tested code commits and participate effectively in code reviews.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Experience analyzing gameplay features and content for performance and optimizing toward release quality.
• Mentorship mindset and excellent attitude to helping others level up their knowledge.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in multi-disciplinary teams.

• Degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related discipline.
• Experience in development using the Unreal engine (both C++ and Blueprint).
• Experience developing and shipping AAA game titles for PC, Xbox, and Play Station consoles.
• Experience working in a large codebase and collaborating across multiple gameplay teams.
• Experience working on online multiplayer games.

• Passion for gameplay development, especially for the quality of the moment-to-moment experience.

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