Gameplay Engineer, Missions - Unannounced Game | Irvine, CA
Blizzard Entertainment1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Partner with mission designers to prototype, implement, and iterate on mission content through shippable quality.
- Deliver clear, reliable, well-paced, and polished player-facing mission experiences.
- Implement and maintain mission gameplay features and supporting code frameworks with emphasis on correctness, readability, and extensibility.
- Improve mission iteration speed through stronger workflows, debugging visibility, and validation.
- Profile and optimize mission content and gameplay features for stable, release-quality execution.
- Collaborate with cross-disciplinary and technical partners to diagnose issues and drive fixes to resolution.
- Contribute readable code commits, code reviews, lightweight documentation, and a collaborative engineering culture.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in gameplay engineering or a combination of applicable training and related experience.
- Engineering contributions to at least one shipped game title or similarly complex real-time interactive product.
- Experience delivering features as part of a cross-functional team including designers, artists, animators, level designers, and FX artists.
- Experience working on real-time 3D games.
- Ability to understand and write production-grade C++ code.
- Experience with readable, well-tested commits, code reviews, debugging, performance analysis, and optimization.
- Preferred: a degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related discipline.
- Preferred: Unreal Engine development using C++ and Blueprint; AAA PC, Xbox, and PlayStation game development; large codebases; collaboration across gameplay teams; and online multiplayer games.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid work arrangement with some on-site and some work-from-home work in Irvine, California.
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings or reimbursement accounts, healthcare and dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, and disability insurance.
- 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and charitable donation matching.
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leave, and parental leave.
- Mental health and wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and other voluntary benefits.
- Relocation assistance may be available if the company requires geographic relocation.
- Eligibility varies by employment status and is subject to requirements.
Tech Stack
Categories
Gaming
About Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment develops and publishes video games for PC and consoles, including World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, StarCraft, and Hearthstone, supported by Battle.net services and esports. Founded in 1991 (as Silicon & Synapse) and headquartered in Irvine, California, it operates within Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2023. Its business model spans premium games, expansions, a World of Warcraft subscription, and in-game purchases for live-service titles.