Remote Technical Level Designer for Open-World Multiplayer

Gardens Interactive; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance & disability

Job summary

Gardens Interactive seeks a Technical Level Designer to create worlds and sandboxes in Unreal Engine, using Blueprints and C++. You’ll prototype, validate, and deliver gameplay features that invite exploration and multiplayer moments.

You’ll own level creation from blockout to delivery, collaborating across disciplines and ensuring performance for reliable multiplayer behavior within a remote North American team.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, debugging, polish, and maintenance of interactive world features and environmental gameplay toys that offer new choices, challenges, and benefits. Creature and NPC behaviors are outside this role.
• 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 that help designers build and iterate on levels efficiently.
• Rapidly prototype and playtest ideas to validate their 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.
• Keep implementations organized and document features and tools so the team can use, tune, and maintain them.

Skills

Open-world design

Multiplayer design

Spatial reasoning

Prototyping

Level balancing

Tools

Unreal Engine

Blueprints

C++

Job description

Gardens Interactive seeks a Technical Level Designer to create worlds and sandboxes in Unreal Engine, using Blueprints and C++. You’ll prototype, validate, and deliver gameplay features that invite exploration and multiplayer moments.

You’ll own level creation from blockout to delivery, collaborating across disciplines and ensuring performance for reliable multiplayer behavior within a remote North American team.