2 months ago
Burnaby, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the development, architecture, and long-term technical direction of the game's narrative systems.
- Develop and maintain cinematic sequencing, scripted events, branching content, dialog integration, camera behavior, animation playback, and event-driven scene logic in Unreal Engine 5.
- Extend and customize Unreal Engine systems including Sequencer, camera frameworks, and animation-related workflows.
- Integrate dialog, facial animation, lip-sync, localization, and performance-driven content into reliable runtime systems.
- Create and improve creator-facing tools, content pipelines, and narrative authoring workflows.
- Collaborate with Animation, Audio, Level Design, Gameplay, Design, and Production teams to translate creative goals into technical solutions.
- Define technical standards and best practices for narrative content, cinematic playback, scripted events, and tools.
- Research Unreal Engine features, industry techniques, and emerging technologies for narrative and cinematic production.
- Profile, optimize, and debug narrative, cinematic, camera, dialog, and animation systems.
- Mentor engineers in system design, Unreal Engine development, C++ practices, debugging, and production engineering.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience in games, interactive media, simulation, or related real-time technology.
- Advanced modern C++ experience, including clean, maintainable, performance-conscious engine-level code.
- Deep Unreal Engine 4 or Unreal Engine 5 experience with familiarity with engine architecture and source-level workflows.
- Experience owning complex runtime systems, content creation tools, or production pipelines from architecture through delivery.
- Strong understanding of cinematic, narrative, animation, camera, dialog, or scripted event systems in a real-time engine.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills.
- Ability to translate ambiguous artistic, narrative, or design goals into practical technical solutions and explain technical concepts to varied audiences.
- Experience shipping high-quality games on Unreal Engine 4 or Unreal Engine 5 is beneficial.
- Experience with branching dialog, localization, narrative scripting, quest systems, event-driven scene logic, editor tools, content pipelines, facial animation, lip-sync, performance capture, or character performance technologies is beneficial.
- A strong portfolio or shipped-title history demonstrating cinematic, narrative, or interactive presentation systems is beneficial.
Benefits
- The position is based in British Columbia and is tagged as hybrid, onsite, and remote.
- The starting base pay range is CAD $144,200 to CAD $213,375 per year.
- The employer provides accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the application and interview process.
Tech Stack
Categories
Gaming
About 2K
2K develops and publishes video games for console, PC, and mobile players, selling premium titles and live-service content across major franchises. Its portfolio includes NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Sid Meier’s Civilization, XCOM, WWE 2K, and PGA TOUR 2K, built by in-house and partner studios. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Novato, California, 2K is a publishing label wholly owned by Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO).