Senior Narrative Engineer
CD PROJEKT RED2 days ago
Remote, EMEA or Warsaw, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Story, Localization, Quest, and Cinematic teams to achieve creative and technical goals.
- Write high-quality, optimized, scalable, and bug-free code aligned with project goals.
- Build and maintain narrative content tools, systems, and pipelines.
- Develop and support the Screenplay Editor and its connection to the Sequencer Dialogue Player for subtitles and voiceovers.
- Create voicesets for open-world NPCs.
- Maintain pipelines that synchronize narrative content between the game engine and external tools.
- Comprehend unfamiliar code and work across multiple systems in the codebase.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in the game industry.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Extensive professional experience with Unreal Engine and/or other game engines.
- Strong C++ programming skills.
- Ability to understand unfamiliar code and work across many systems in a codebase.
- Solid English communication skills and ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Passion for creating games.
- Experience shipping AA or AAA titles is preferred.
- Experience with Unreal Engine’s Sequencer is preferred.
- Knowledge of relational databases, C#, and/or Python is preferred.
Benefits
- Office-first work from the Warsaw office or remote-first work.
- Relocation package covering a flight ticket, first-month company apartment, pet relocation, and shipping belongings.
- Relocation assistance with legalization, residence, and tax settlements.
- Polish lessons for employees and their spouse or partner.
- 20–26 days of annual holiday, paid sick leave, and paid maternity and paternity leave.
- Private medical healthcare with dental care and unlimited rehabilitation options for employees and eligible family members.
- Life insurance, pension and insurance plans, annual cancer-prevention screenings, and free psychological and psychiatric care.
- Sports card, menstrual leave, childcare and family benefits, and a summer camp program for children aged 5–12.
- Training, lectures, courses, workshops, knowledge sharing, online tutorials, and e-learning.
- Cafeteria platform benefits, additional medical packages, vouchers, shop and cinema codes, and public-transport reimbursement.
- Welcome pack, newborn gifts, and company merchandise.
- Dog-friendly office, social events, canteens, bicycle facilities, showers, and an onsite gym with climbing wall, fitness support, yoga, and boxing classes.
- International work environment, electric-car charging points, green zones, and no dress code.
- Employment contract (Umowa o pracę) for employees in Poland.
About CD PROJEKT RED
CD PROJEKT RED is a Warsaw-headquartered game development studio building story-driven role-playing games for PC and consoles. It is the creator of The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077, and funds itself by selling premium titles and expansions worldwide. Founded in 2002, the studio operates globally with teams in Poland and a growing hub in Boston working on new installments and original IP.