Description
Game Designer
Location
San
Diego, CA
Job Type
Contract,
Onsite Assignment
Summary
Qualcomm’s
Advanced Content Group is seeking a game designer who will work directly with
our development team, design leads, and art director, to help create, write,
and script new games/levels as part of a cohesive, directed gameplay
experience. Ideal candidates will have an excellent understanding of gameplay balance,
as well as a good sense for what makes an item attractive and fun to players.
The ideal artist for this role has created or written games, levels or map designs,
mods, quests, encounters, MMO’s, or any other gameplay experiences that
demonstrate their instincts for storytelling via gameplay.
Daily duties and
responsibilities:
-Pitching
concepts, designs, and full proposals to project leads/Director
-Collaborating
with other designers, engineers, animators, artists, sound designers and
production staff to create immersive experiences through a compelling story to
showcase state of the art mobile devices.
-Review
design work at various stages of development to ensure that the execution
matches the original vision, goals, and necessary requirements
-Ability
to self-manage to meet deadlines with the team; actively adapting to new
requirements that may change mid project for necessary device demonstrations
for upcoming event demos
Requirements:
- 5+ years of game design experience on a shipped MMO,
mobile, PC, or console game
- Strong knowledge of analytics and how to use data in
game design
- Expert experience with creating reward structures and
incentives in game environment
- Deep understanding
of first person, third person, and multi player game mechanics
- Have worked on high profile games with a significant
amount of daily active users
- Experience working and shipping features for a high
profile game.
- Vast knowledge of the Free-to-Play game market (Asia
experience is a huge plus)
- Extensive Unreal 4 blueprint and Unity 5 experience
scripting
Preferred Qualifications:
- BFA or equivalent on the job experience
- Experience
with Android OS and Android application development
- Experience working on game design and game balancing
- Experience with other aspects of game development such
as Character Design, Writing, Gameplay Programming and AI Design
- Well-versed in console and/or mobile gaming
- Skillful
experience with C, C++ or non-visual scripting languages
- Experience
with 3D graphics related mathematics
- Understanding of VR and AR mobile limitations and
requirements
- Passionate about gaming, up to date on game design
literature, and best practices
Join the Advanced
Content Group!
Qualcomm’s
Advanced Content Group mission is to create immersive and unique experiences to
users while utilizing state of the art mobile technology with Qualcomm’s proprietary
chipsets, which today power over 2 billion consumer devices worldwide.
You will work directly with leading game developers from around the world to
help enhance and optimize their cutting-edge games and applications for the
Snapdragon platform.