Gameplay Engineer

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Title: Gameplay Engineer

Location: 100% remote

Purpose of the Team:

• The team supports the Creator Platform by building tools and documentation that enable creators to develop custom game content (e.g., mods, scripts, and add-ons).
• Their work focuses on making it easier for developers to create advanced experiences by providing guidance, code samples, and tooling to support content development.

Key projects:

• This role will contribute to developing code samples and example content (e.g., mini-games, gameplay scenarios like custom drawbridges/castles) to demonstrate new features

Disqualifiers:

• Candidates without experience in gameplay development, game mods/add-ons, or scripting will not be eligible. Individuals primarily focused on programming like C/C demonstrated TypeScript or scripting experience may not be a fit and would be a red flag.

Best vs. Average:

• The ideal resume will include hands-on experience building game content such as mods, add-ons, or extensions (e.g. Java, Sims, or similar platforms).

Summary:

• The main function of a Gameplay Engineer is to design, develop, and implement applications using general languages and technologies (e.g. - C#, C , HTML) to support business requirements.

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts
• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
• Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• 2-4 years experience required
• Development experience in needed language or technology (e.g. - C#, C , HTML)
• Hands on experience in designing, developing and successful deployment of large scale projects from end-to-end
• Hands on experience in following the iterative and agile SDLC

Explain a typical day in the role.:

• A typical day starts by pulling the latest preview build and testing whether your in-progress sample projects still work against it fixing any breaks from API or format changes.
• Mid-morning, you dive into focused building: maybe you're creating a mini-game that demonstrates the new custom component system, working in VS Code on TypeScript scripts and JSON definitions, then loading to playtest and iterate.
• After lunch, you meet with an engineer who walks you through a new world-generation API that's about to ship you brainstorm what kind of sample would best showcase it and start prototyping a world template.
• Later in the afternoon, you package up a finished sample project: cleaning up code comments, writing a clear README, testing the setup instructions from scratch, and pushing it to the GitHub repo. If there's time, you might record a quick screen capture walkthrough of the sample to hand off for a video or Learning Portal tutorial.
• The day-to-day is building things — but with the discipline and polish of shipping reference content that thousands of creators will rely on.

What is the ideal background of a candidate for this role?:

• A strong portfolio would show polished, playable content: sample add-ons, mini-games, custom maps, or Marketplace submissions.
• They should have a game designer's eye for making small experiences that are fun and clearly demonstrate a concept, combined with a developer's discipline around code quality, documentation, and version control.
• Bonus points for candidates who can also produce video walkthroughs or write tutorials

Top 3 Must-Have HARD Skills & years of experience for each:

• Experience building game content, mods, or add-ons strong experience with other moddable game platforms counts too.
• Scripting ability, specifically TypeScript - Candidates should be deeply comfortable working with behavior packs, resource packs, JSON entity/item/block definitions, and the Script API (JavaScript/TypeScript).

Salary Range:$95,200 - 99,000 Annually -Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertain to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year]

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