Senior Engineer, Gameplay
CD PROJEKT RED9 hours ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, maintain, and extend gameplay and engine systems for NPC animation, locomotion, and navigation.
- Develop responsive NPC movement, behaviors, and interactions within the game world.
- Create tools and debugging utilities for efficient development and iteration.
- Collaborate with designers, animators, QA, producers, and other engineers on gameplay features and technical priorities.
- Write and maintain clean, tested C++ code, including automated and gameplay-focused tests.
- Debug, profile, optimize, and resolve complex gameplay-system issues.
- Own gameplay features from technical design through implementation, testing, and iteration.
- Share technical knowledge, provide constructive feedback, and support the growth of other engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience in gameplay programming.
- Strong proficiency in C++.
- Experience contributing to a commercial game through significant production milestones or release, ideally at AAA scale.
- Strong understanding of game engine architecture, algorithms, and multithreaded systems.
- Strong proficiency in 3D vector mathematics, matrices, and linear algebra.
- Advanced experience designing and implementing gameplay systems such as animation, locomotion, navigation, combat, or physics.
- Ability to debug, profile, and optimize complex gameplay systems.
- Experience collaborating with designers, animators, QA, and other disciplines throughout game development.
- Working proficiency in spoken and written English.
- Interest or experience in mentoring engineers, coordinating technical tasks, and developing technical leadership skills is preferred.
- Experience with Unreal Engine, particularly Unreal Engine 5, is preferred.
- Experience with NPC animation, locomotion, navigation, or third-person gameplay systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid or full-time in-office work in Warsaw, Poland; relocation is required.
- Relocation package includes a flight ticket, first-month company apartment, pet and family relocation, and belongings shipment.
- Relocation assistance includes legalization operations and tax settlement support.
- Polish lessons are available for employees and their spouses or partners.
- Private medical healthcare, dental care, rehabilitation, life insurance, pension plans, cancer-prevention screenings, and mental-health support.
- Sports card, menstrual leave, childcare and family support, and a partially company-funded summer camp for children aged 5–12.
- 20–26 days of annual holiday and paid sick leave.
- Training, lectures, courses, workshops, online tutorials, e-learning, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Cafeteria platform benefits, additional medical packages, vouchers, and public-transport reimbursement.
- Dog-friendly office, social events, canteens, bicycle facilities, showers, onsite gym, climbing wall, yoga, and boxing classes.
- Employment contract (Umowa o pracę).
Tech Stack
C++Unreal Engine
Categories
Gaming
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.