Gameplay Engineer, Combat - STARCRAFT | Irvine, CA
Blizzard Entertainment1 month ago
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain performant, scalable, and maintainable combat systems involving player and NPC interactions.
- Create combat experiences, character behaviors, navigation systems, and gameplay technologies.
- Partner with encounter, character, and system designers to translate gameplay goals into technical solutions.
- Collaborate with designers, artists, animators, level designers, FX artists, and gameplay engineers to deliver polished features.
- Identify performance bottlenecks, technical risks, and implementation challenges, and propose practical solutions.
- Diagnose issues with cross-disciplinary and technical partners and drive fixes to resolution.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in gameplay engineering or a combination of applicable training and related experience.
- Contributions to action-focused combat systems, NPC AI, navigation, or gameplay features on at least one shipped title.
- Strong C++ programming skills, including performance analysis and optimization.
- Experience delivering high-quality features within a cross-functional development team.
Benefits
- Hybrid work week with a mix of work-from-home and on-site days at the Irvine studio.
- 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 benefit programs.
- Potential relocation assistance if the company requires geographic relocation for the job.
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.