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Senior Technical Designer

Naughty Dog
Santa Monica, CA, United States
Posted 1 month ago
Last seen 10 hours ago
Active
full-time
Naughty Dog
$145,100—$181,400 USD

Job Summary

Join Naughty Dog as a Senior Technical Designer to craft immersive gameplay and narrative experiences for critically acclaimed titles like Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, leveraging your programming expertise and passion for storytelling.

About this job

As a Senior Technical Designer, you will prototype, implement, and own gameplay scenarios, narrative sequences, interactive objects, and AI behaviors. You will communicate with animation, programming, and art departments to produce necessary assets and code support, while fostering team cohesion and advising design leadership.

Requirements

- Prototyping, implementing, and owning gameplay scenarios, narrative sequences, interactive objects, AI behaviors, and other mechanics and systems. - Communicating with animation, programming, and art departments to effectively produce the assets and code support required for the areas you’re owning. - Fostering team cohesion, advising design leadership regarding communication breakdowns and personality conflicts. - Working with minimal supervision while keeping lead designers and directors well-informed. - 5+ years of industry experience in Technical Design for games. - 2+ shipped games. - Significant programming ability (Computer Science undergraduate degree preferred). - Deep understanding of narrative principles and how to convey emotion through gameplay. - Expertise in 3D math. - Fluent in C++, C#, Lua, or other text-based scripting language. - Ability to identify and act on opportunities for improvements to tools and workflows that can help the team be more efficient. - Self-starter with excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Benefits & Perks

- Top-tier benefits package including medical, dental, vision. - Matching 401(k). - Paid time off. - Wellness program. - Coveted employee discounts for Sony products. - May be eligible for a bonus package.

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