Game Designer

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:

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  • 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:

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  • 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.