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Create and implement high-quality, authentic sports gameplay animations for a new AAA franchise. Collaborate with animation leads, designers, engineers, and producers from ideation through final implementation. Manage motion-capture shot lists and references, support animation-driven features, influence technical implementation in engine, and champion animation quality, authenticity, and player-focused experiences.

Creates and implements authentic, high-quality gameplay animations for a sports video game. Responsibilities include editing motion-capture data, defining animation features with designers, collaborating with engineers to implement features in Unreal Engine, participating in animation reviews, estimating animation tasks, and championing animation quality and human-movement authenticity across gameplay development.

Design and maintain sophisticated automated tests for AAA game systems, extend test scripts, analyze defects and diagnostic logs, maintain CI/CD automation pipelines, and advise studio teams on automation practices. The role requires strong programming or scripting skills, QA experience, test framework expertise, and collaboration with engineers to improve test reliability, coverage, and performance monitoring.

Designs, maintains, and optimizes body and facial character rigs for gameplay and cinematics. Builds skinning, asset-binding, facial, mocap-processing, and animation database pipelines, while developing rigging tools and integrating character assets into Unreal Engine. Collaborates with animation, art, and engineering teams to ensure high-quality, usable, and runtime-efficient character systems.

Designs, balances, and implements gameplay systems including progression, economies, rewards, stats, and game modes. Tunes systems using feedback, metrics, and playtests; analyzes systemic outcomes; documents design logic and balancing guidelines; and collaborates with engineering, art, production, and design teams. The role supports player agency, emergent storytelling, meaningful trade-offs, and long-term engagement in a large-scale sports game.

Design and implement AI systems for a AAA sports game using Unreal Engine 5 and C++. Build team-based decision-making, play selection, formations, tactics, positional awareness, and realistic player behavior. Optimize performance in multithreaded environments, collaborate with designers and animators, write tested code, conduct reviews, and mentor engineers.

Manage and deliver a game area by partnering with design, engineering and art. Plan, prioritize, track progress, remove roadblocks, build Jira/Flow workflows, decompose long-term efforts into milestones, communicate roadmaps and risks, and maintain team structure and morale to meet quality and schedule goals.

Lead design, build, and operation of scalable multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. Implement IaC, GitOps, observability, SLI/SLOs, chaos engineering, incident response, security at platform layer, automation, and developer self-service while driving reliability practices across studios.

Lead architecture and implementation of cinematic and narrative systems in Unreal Engine 4/5, including Sequencer, camera, animation, dialog, and editor tools. Own runtime systems, authoring workflows, performance optimization, and integration with Animation, Audio, and Design. Mentor engineers, define technical standards, and research new engine features to improve narrative production and creator workflows.

As a Senior Gameplay Designer, you will lead a team to implement authentic sports gameplay, define visions, and collaborate on feature designs and testing.