Senior Hardware Designer developing electronic circuits and telecommunications systems for Octasic’s wireless and multimedia platforms. Leading hardware design, debugging, certification, and production support.
About the role
- Technical Level Designer building Unreal Engine gameplay features and levels for Gardens Interactive’s multiplayer fantasy adventure. Creating interactive worlds that encourage exploration, puzzles, and memorable multiplayer moments.
Responsibilities
- Create worlds and sandboxes filled with opportunities to play
- Prototype, validate, iterate on, and deliver gameplay features in Unreal Engine using Blueprints and/or C++
- Create gameplay verbs, activities, challenges, and environmental interactions for online multiplayer
- Build and refine levels using created mechanics and tools alongside existing systems, hazards, and enemies
- Playtest levels and features to encourage experimentation and memorable multiplayer moments
- Own the design, implementation, debugging, polish, and maintenance of interactive world features and environmental gameplay toys
- Build levels from blockout through delivery, shaping flow, pacing, navigation, and readability across exploration, puzzles, traversal, and encounters
- Create reusable, configurable gameplay components and tools
- Rapidly prototype and playtest ideas to validate potential, refine features, and manage scope and complexity
- Collaborate across disciplines to align with design direction, integrate player abilities and creature encounters, and meet technical requirements
- Partner with Engineering to resolve performance issues and ensure reliable multiplayer behavior
- Organize implementations and document features and tools for team use, tuning, and maintenance
- Report to the Design Manager
Requirements
- At least one shipped game as a level designer on a multidisciplinary team
- Proficiency in Unreal Engine Blueprints and/or C++, with the ability to independently prototype, implement, and debug gameplay features
- Experience building levels and authoring collision and navigation in Unreal Engine
- Strong level design fundamentals in spatial composition, flow, pacing, and player guidance for open-world exploration and multiplayer play
- Strong playtesting and iteration habits
- Understanding of how design shapes player behavior, cooperation, and relationships
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada
- Applicants must be willing to work within North American time zones (EST–PST)
- Ability to remain stationary and perform computer-based work for extended periods, including sustained use of monitors, keyboards, mice, and game controllers for a minimum of six hours per day
- Experience building reusable level design tools, modular gameplay kits, or procedural workflows in Unreal Engine (nice to have)
- Experience designing systemic puzzles, physics-based interactions, or environmental features supporting multiple solutions and emergent multiplayer play (nice to have)
- Experience profiling and optimizing gameplay scripts and level content (nice to have)
Benefits
- Stock options
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for individuals, 90% for dependents)
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Additional benefits
- 401(k) contributions (U.S.)
- RRSP + DPSP contributions (Canada)
- Paid parental leave
- Fully distributed remote studio across North American time zones
- Competitive salaries and pay transparency
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