Senior Narrative Tools Engineer – Unreal Pipelines

the hive; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 264,000 - 454,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Relocation assistance

Polish lessons

Paid leave

Private medical health plan

Life insurance

Gym access

No dress-code

Job summary

CD PROJEKT RED in Warsaw is seeking a Senior Narration Engineer to help craft tools, pipelines, and workflows for hundreds of thousands of dialogue lines and integrate them into gameplay.

You will collaborate with Story, Localization, Quest, and Cinematic teams, write high-quality code, and own the narration pipeline from concept to delivery. The role combines creative and technical work in a dynamic studio.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience in the game industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, mathematics or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Extensive professional experience with Unreal Engine and/or other engines, and strong C++ programming skills.
• Ability to comprehend unfamiliar code and work across many systems in the code base.
• Solid communication skills, with the ability to communicate in English.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Story, Localization, Quest, and Cinematic teams to find solutions that achieve creative and technical goals.
• Write high-quality code that is optimised, scalable, bug-free, and aligned with project goals.
• Build and maintain narrative content tools, systems and pipelines, including: Screenplay Editor and its connection to the Sequencer, Dialogue Player to present subtitles and play voiceovers, Voicesets for open world NPCs, and pipelines that enable seamless synchronization of narrative content between the engine and external tools.

Skills

C++ programming

English communication

Team player

Agile mindset

Game development passion

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Unreal Engine

Sequencer

Relational databases

C# and Python

Job description

CD PROJEKT RED in Warsaw is seeking a Senior Narration Engineer to help craft tools, pipelines, and workflows for hundreds of thousands of dialogue lines and integrate them into gameplay.

You will collaborate with Story, Localization, Quest, and Cinematic teams, write high-quality code, and own the narration pipeline from concept to delivery. The role combines creative and technical work in a dynamic studio.