Remote Technical Designer: Gameplay Systems & Tools

Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc

United Kingdom

Remote

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

PTO and holidays
Private Medical & Dental
Private Mental Health
Health & Wellbeing allowance
Discretionary Studio Bonus
Top-range home setup tech
Region-based perks

Job summary

Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc. seeks a Tech Designer to bridge technical and creative teams, implementing robust gameplay systems and reusable content.

You’ll drive technical workflows, maintain toolchains, and advocate for best practices across departments in a fully remote studio with global teammates. You will analyze engine capabilities, optimize architectures, and contribute to design principles while collaborating with diverse disciplines to realize shared vision.

Qualifications

  • Ability to work cross-discipline and provide constructive and easy-to-understand feedback to any team member.
  • Excellent technical scripting skills, ideally in visual and text-based scripting.
  • Self-motivated towards solving creative problems and technical challenges.
  • Ability to analyze and deconstruct the work of others.
  • Good knowledge of game and level design principles.
  • Clear and concise communication.
  • Ability to work autonomously.
  • Good knowledge of programming languages such as C++
  • Understanding of optimization and technical limitations.
  • Knowledge of network replication and limitations.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with all the different disciplines to determine the best methods to realize the shared vision for the game.
  • Champion and uphold the creation of technical workflows and production pipelines.
  • Act as a technical expert on the team and ensure the team has the highest quality tools, documents, and best practices.
  • Obtain in-depth knowledge of the engine, its capabilities, and auxiliary development tools.
  • Uphold good system architecture across the department, including reuse and optimization.
  • Be an advocate for the technical design team in interactions with all departments.

Skills

Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Technical scripting
Analytical thinking
Clear communication
Autonomy
C++ knowledge
Engine knowledge

Tools

Game engine tools
Scripting environments
Network replication basics

Job description

Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc. seeks a Tech Designer to bridge technical and creative teams, implementing robust gameplay systems and reusable content.

You’ll drive technical workflows, maintain toolchains, and advocate for best practices across departments in a fully remote studio with global teammates. You will analyze engine capabilities, optimize architectures, and contribute to design principles while collaborating with diverse disciplines to realize shared vision.

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