What are the responsibilities and job description for the Gameplay Engineer position at Stone Kite?
Gameplay Engineer
Stone Kite is a world building studio that thoughtfully develops heroic universes across games, film, TV, comics, audio, and more. Built by veterans from game and entertainment studios such as Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Bungie, and Riot, our team leverages expertise and passion to build worlds that matter.
We're looking for an experienced engineer to help build foundational systems and features to bring our flagship world to life. The ideal candidate will leverage their technical expertise, system design skills and creative intuition to empower a small team to explore bold new ideas with rapid, stable, and joyful workflows.
This role involves a high degree of creative autonomy. You will need to be able to take initiative and work independently, seek out information and feedback to validate your decisions, and pursue alignment with your team, with other teams, and with the project director. Empathetic communication and feedback skills, and a spirit of curiosity are essential for success.
This role is a remote based position.
What You'll Do :
Feature Implementation
- Using C and Blueprint, implement features and workflows in Unreal Engine to support the goals and deliverables of the prototype team
- Fix bugs and maintain prototype stability and availability
- Write documentation for systems and provide direct support to other members of the team
- Balance rapid iteration with minimizing future tech debt
- Perform evaluations of technical systems and products and offer a recommendation about their use for prototyping and in production
- Participate in code reviews and technical standards discussions
Creative Participation
What You'll Bring :
What You'll Get :
The expected salary range for this position is $165,000-200,000. The compensation package will also include a range of generous medical, dental, vision and other perks & benefits. Compensation decisions are determined using a variety of job-related factors such as skill set, geographic location, market demands, experience, and education / certifications. If we extend an offer for employment, we will consider all individual qualifications.
Stone Kite provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Salary : $165,000 - $200,000