3 months ago
Brighton, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and continue developing key gameplay and animation systems.
- Extend and maintain gameplay technology, tools, and pipelines.
- Adapt existing systems and build new technology in Unreal Engine 5.
- Prototype and code gameplay and animation features.
- Collaborate with design, animation, character art, and engineering teams to realize gameplay features.
- Estimate gameplay feature development work and check dependencies.
- Identify technical and developmental risks and develop solutions.
- Research coding techniques and algorithms to stay current with game-industry developments.
Requirements
- Demonstrable programming experience in a creative environment.
- Shipped one or more AAA game titles, ideally using Unreal Engine.
- Advanced proficiency in C++, linear algebra, 3D mathematics, and object-oriented design principles.
- Experience with the Unreal Gameplay Ability System.
- Experience with Unreal Engine, Blueprints, and Unreal animation principles.
- Strong commitment to code quality and documentation, with the ability to learn new technologies.
- Ability to work independently and efficiently under deadlines.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams.
- Highly desirable: hands-on development for Unreal Engine, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5.
- Highly desirable: experience with player-controlled characters, Unreal enhanced inputs, cameras, and camera systems.
- Highly desirable: implementation experience with inverse kinematics, ragdoll and physics-based character animation, procedural animation, keyframe animation and forward kinematics, or machine-learning-driven animation techniques.
Benefits
- Permanent employment.
- Locations include Brighton, Brno, and Prague, with Brighton preferred.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the job listing.
- Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees.
Tech Stack
C++Unreal Engine
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).