Remote Principal Systems Designer – Live-Service Mobile

Game Devs of Color; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Scopely is seeking a Principal Systems Designer for an unannounced, mobile-first live-service title. This remote-in-US or hybrid-in-Culver-City role focuses on defining and shipping core systems, progression, economy, and loot, with Unity-based implementation and analytics-driven tuning.

You’ll collaborate across design, engineering, and production to turn ambiguous problems into well-instrumented systems and scalable player experiences.

Qualifications

• Hands-on design and implementation of core systems.
• Experience shaping progression, economy, and loot in live-service games.
• Ability to model tuning and scale with data and analytics.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, and production teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core systems from definition to ship.
• Collaborate with gameplay designers to align combat, progression, and scaling.
• Build models, simulations, and tuning tools for loot, XP curves, and stats.
• Implement and iterate in Unity and design tools.
• Create design docs for cross‑discipline teams.
• Define tooling and pipelines to enable efficient systems authoring.
• Use playtest results and analytics to evaluate performance and iterate.
• Assess proposals, identify risks and opportunities for evolution.

Skills

System design

Progression modeling

Analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Unity

Job description

Scopely is seeking a Principal Systems Designer for an unannounced, mobile-first live-service title. This remote-in-US or hybrid-in-Culver-City role focuses on defining and shipping core systems, progression, economy, and loot, with Unity-based implementation and analytics-driven tuning.

You’ll collaborate across design, engineering, and production to turn ambiguous problems into well-instrumented systems and scalable player experiences.