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The Job

Avalanche, a division of WB Games Inc., is looking for a senior level technical artist with a passion for performance, optimization, and high visual quality, specifically related to environments. You will be part of a versatile tech-art team working with the latest technology developing an upcoming AAA title, Hogwarts Legacy, in Salt Lake City, Utah. If you are accustomed to being the go-to for engineers and artists for all things related to level content performance, please apply.

The Daily

• Improve artist workflow by developing tools, defining standards and best practices.
• Develop Unreal performance tests to help prioritize optimization efforts.
• Keep and maintain clear documentation for standards and best practices.
• Seek out opportunities for optimization and workflow improvements.
• Work as a team with programmers, artists, and other technical artists
• Lead and mentor other technical artists.
• Research and develop forward thinking technologies and tools.
• Content integration in Unreal Engine.

The Essentials

• 5+ years’ experience in the industry.

• At least 3 published games.
• Strong Unreal 4 foundation; integration and optimization of content, and blueprints.
• Strong understanding of authoring and optimizing materials.
• In depth experience with Unreal environment creation.
• In depth knowledge of performance tools within Unreal.
• Scripting proficiency (Python)
• C++ experience is a plus
• Knowledge of Maya and other DCC 3D tools.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to self-manage and meet deadlines while setting a professional and collaborative tone.

The Job

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. seeks an Advanced Designer for the Digital Product Management department. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is looking for great people that want to create the next big hit in entertainment and change how players view gaming. Warner Bros. has brought some of most beloved brands to consumers such as Harry Potter, LEGO, DC, and much more in the interactive medium. We are looking to add an energetic, social, and ambitious professional who has a passion to create great games and win.

You will play a critical lead role in ensuring the commercial success of our games. You will work with some of the most talented producers, designers and marketers in the industry to help shape the strategy of our key products.

The Daily

• Responsible for a small team developing features / events.
• Become a genre expert. Understand what makes leaders successful and distill learnings to help translate them into actionable strategies.
• Help develop a winning strategy within your genre of expertise.
• Analyze genre leaders with particular focus on game systems (economic, progression, combat, events/competitions) and live plans. Identify successful trends and adapt them for our projects.
• Present data supported summaries and recommendations to improve design within your genre of expertise.
• Work with a studio to align their system design with the established winning strategy and best design practices.
• Contribute to roundtable evaluations of potential new games. Use your genre expertise to quantify potential opportunities and risks.
• Remote okay, if located in North America.

The Essentials

• 8+ years games industry experience with 5+ years of working on free to play games.
• 1+ year of live support on a f2p game.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Strong communication skills to be able to influence and convince others to your point of view.
• Strong understanding of merchandising, event, and live operations/monetization technique.

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About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is a leading worldwide publisher, developer, licensor, and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all platforms, including console, mobile and PC-based gaming for both internal and third-party game titles. WB Games studios include TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, Turbine, NetherRealm Studios, Monolith Productions, WB Games Montréal, WB Games San Francisco, WB Games New York and Playdemic.

JOB DESCRIPTION

WB Games Montreal, a division of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE), seeks a Senior Software Engineer CGT.

This technical role in the Warner Bros. Central Game Technologies team offers an experienced engineer the opportunity to collaborate in the envisioning, designing, and building of a wide variety of enterprise-level game development tools, pipelines, and services. The problem space ranges the gamut of games technology and will require an engineer with an exceptional ability to learn.
Critically, the role also requires an engineer who has passion for helping others achieve and is prepared to drive this through innovation and development to fill needs, such as shared technology or inter-studio communication platforms. Collaboration and co-development with the many WB Games studios will be a routine part of the role, giving exposure to the many tools and technologies developed around WB Games.
Strong soft skills are invaluable to collaborate with individual game teams, gain adoption, and enhance any solutions developed.

Job Responsibilities

• Direct development of technology, systems, and pipelines
• Research and dissemination of knowledge and best practices
• Guiding outsourcers and mentoring of staff
• Meetings and planning

who assignS work to this position? (LIST titles)

• Director of Engineering, Central Game Technologies
• VP, Game Technology (Burbank)

TYPES OF DECISIONS MADE BY THIS POSITION? (Describe ability to exercise discretion):

• Best technical approaches to achieving design requirements including localized system design/architecture.
• Best approaches for breaking down, organizing, and tracking status of large tasks
• Engagement frequency and communication channels with developers

TYPES OF DECISIONS THAT MUST BE APPROVED BY SUPERIOR:

• Technical Design as it relates to overall architecture of the engine codebase
• Specific implementation details, when related to shared code/interfaces or performance critical components.

JOB QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

Work Experience

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience working with 1st party game platforms (Xbox, PlayStation and Steam) in an engineering capacity
• Experience with Unreal or equivalent game engine in an engineering capacity
• Experience with some or all of Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Jira (or other bug databases), Confluence, Visual Studio, Perforce (or other source control tools)

Education, Professional Training, Technical Training or Certification

• College degree in software engineering, architecture, or computer science preferred

Knowledge/Skills

• Excellent C/C++ programming skills with excellent debugging abilities.
• The ability to write efficient and optimized code.
• Experience in one or more of animation, physics, rendering, tools architecture, content build pipelines, backend services or other game-centric disciplines.
• Experience writing multithreaded code (preferred).

Other Requirements

• Strong desire to build industry-leading technology and help others achieve
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with engineers and content creators to develop robust, maintainable, cutting-edge technology
• Ability to openly discuss and review technical proposals, requirements, designs, algorithms, source code, and reference documents with engineers, content creators and managers
• Creative, focused, results-oriented, self-motivated, resourceful problem-solver.
• A passion for gaming.

Management has the right to add or change duties and job requirements at any time.

The Job

WB Games Inc., seeks an Associate Artist to support and assist the Avalanche Cinematic Team. This position is an individual contributor primarily focused on assisting the cinematic creation teams from a technical standpoint.

This work can include scene setup in Motion Builder, Maya, and our in-house cinematic tool, maintaining functionality of cinematics throughout the project. The Associate Artist Intern will also be responsible for asset verification and collection for outsourced cinematics.

The Daily

• Provide Cinematic Scene Setup and maintenance which will include:
  • Set up MotionBuilder props and sets from in game assets
  • Set up SceneRigs (Proprietary tool)
  • Export and setup Sub scene files (Propriety tool in Maya)
• Maintain functionality of cinematics throughout the project.
• Support outsourcers as needed with asset verification and collection before it is sent out, and intake of the new data

• Provide general cinematic support

The Requirements

• At least 1+ years’ experience in college or industry

• A BFA or a BS, focusing on game development or similar background is preferred.
• Experience with industry standard 3-D packages (Motion Builder and Maya.)
• Able to grasp and enjoy technical work.
• Experience and understanding of art/animation pipelines for modern video game pipelines
• Able to learn new packages and proprietary tools.
• Solid organization skills with adherence to file structures, naming conventions and other established protocols.
• Able to self-manage and meet deadlines.
• Must work well within a team.
• Excellent communication skills, especially within the animation department.
• Willingness to accept direction and redo/iterate work until it’s right.
• Must have an active, passionate interest in current video games to help drive the game to the next level.

The Job

Avalanche, a division of WB Games Inc., seeks a Generalist Artist to join the team working on the upcoming game, Hogwarts Legacy, a new open world, action RPG set in the Wizarding World.

The Daily

• Work comfortably within a team of artists, designers, programmers and supervisors.
• Provide a high degree of skill in at least one discipline and proficient in others (modeling, texturing, animation, rigging, lighting, FX, integrating assets in Unreal Engine4, etc)
• Proactively work with project leadership and collaborate closely with the Art Manager to understand artistic, technical and design requirements of assigned tasks and complete those tasks considering time and quality.
• Perform other duties as needed in a willing and cooperative manner (be a helpful team member)

The Essentials

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent work experience in 2D/3D animation, graphic design or video games
• 3 years’ experience as an Artist in the industry
• Proficient in Maya, 3dsmax or equivalent
• Proficient in content integration with in UnReal Engine 4
• Proficient in Adobe software: Photoshop and Illustrator.
• A well-developed knowledge of foundational art principles (e.g. color theory, composition, anatomy, etc)

The Nice to Haves

• Experience with ZBrush
• Experience with Substance Painter and Designer
• Experience with Jira
• Working experience in the Unreal Engine including scene assembly, materials, lighting, FX, terrain sculpting.
• Ability to conceptualize ideas, produce concept art, storyboards, or mockups as needed and revise quickly.

The Job

Avalanche, a division of WB Games Inc., seeks a veteran designer to join the team working on the upcoming game, Hogwarts Legacy, a new open world, action RPG set in the Wizarding World.

The Senior Designer, Gameplay Systems and Narrative will have a passion and gift for planning, communicating, tracking, and fine-tuning Disparate gameplay and narrative systems including Relatedness VO, Companions, Save Game Design and direction. This role involves heavy collaboration with the Lead Designer and design teams to ensure that game experience targets are met and conveyed to various teams within our organization.

The Daily

• Become familiar with the entire game flow and narrative, managing relatedness VO design back to the player by documenting, holding meetings and tuning data.
• Work with QA team to provide information as to how the system works and how it should be tested.
• Conduct meetings, provide design documentation and direction on systemic Companions.
• Collaborate with Tech Director, Producer and implementation team to document and communicate Save Game design across multiple mission and dungeon teams.
• Work with QA to make sure they understand how to properly test the system and report issues against it.

The Essentials

• Experience working in console game development, from start to finish, on multiple projects.
• Experience with similar design responsibilities, on a large-scale console game project (the bigger the better).
• Experience in designing systems or narrative for open-world, RPG, or branching-story structure games
• Self-starter attitude, comfortable with identifying and fulfilling needs, sometimes with little direction.
• Strong proficiency with tools to convey and track progress of design vision.
• Strong verbal communication skills and comfort with collaboration.
• Experience with other gaming disciplines (e.g., art, programming, audio) considered a bonus.

The Job

Avalanche a division of WB Games, Inc., is looking for an Advanced Writer for their Story department. Join the team working on the upcoming game Hogwarts Legacy, a new open world, action RPG set in the Wizarding World.

We are looking for a talented storyteller with a deep understanding of the wizarding world. Applicants should be creative, self-motivated problem solvers who enjoy collaborating with other writers and designers to create an immersive game narrative. If this is you, send us your resume and writing samples for consideration.

The Daily

• Take the lead with the story and design team to develop compelling narratives.
• Provide British authenticity to the tone of the project.
• Research and play similar games to keep current on gaming trends.
• Resolve issues, take action, provide feedback and modify work based on direction from both the internal team and franchise representatives.
• Review product as necessary to help maintain on-brand messaging.
• Work with the cinematics team to keep the visual storytelling authentic and accurate.
• Oversee the daily work of assigned staff.
• Prioritize and assign narrative tasks to staff.
• Provide editorial on dialogue and on-screen text, including proper spelling, punctuation and grammatical structure.

The Essentials

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university; or 8 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Advanced storyteller and writer, with a special emphasis on narrative writing dialogue preferably in console games.
• Work that shows an advanced understanding of gaming narrative and branching storytelling, particularly in the realm of RPGs.
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel a plus.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Knowledge of the game making process.
• Ability to perform well under pressure and deliver work in a timely manner.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong belief in a Team-based approach.
• 5+ years of relevant game production/complex writing experience.

The Path Forward Return to Work program at WB Games is a 15-week paid returnship for experienced professionals returning to the workforce after taking time off for caregiving. The program is open to individuals who have at least 5 years of professional experience and have been out of the paid workforce for at least two years to focus on caring for a child or other dependent. If you meet these criteria, we welcome you to apply.

At WB Games, we are excited to be part of the Path Forward program because we appreciate the skills you can offer, the perspective you provide, and the contributions you will make. This program offers you a chance to revamp your skills, update your resume with new experience, and make connections with others transitioning back to the workforce. It also offers support through Path Forward, a nonprofit organization on a mission to empower people who’ve been focused on caregiving transition back to the paid workforce.

The Job

Avalanche, a division of WB Games Inc., seeks a Generalist Artist to join the team working on the upcoming game, Hogwarts Legacy, a new open world, action RPG set in the Wizarding World.

The Daily

• Work comfortably within a team of artists, designers, programmers and supervisors.
• Provide a high degree of skill in at least one discipline and proficient in others (modeling, texturing, animation, rigging, lighting, FX, integrating assets in Unreal Engine4, etc)
• Proactively work with project leadership and collaborate closely with the Art Manager to understand artistic, technical and design requirements of assigned tasks and complete those tasks considering time and quality.
• Perform other duties as needed in a willing and cooperative manner (be a helpful team member)

The Essentials

• A bachelor’s or equivalent work experience in 2D/3D animation, graphic design or video games
• 3 years’ experience as an Artist in any digital field
• Proficient in Maya, 3dsmax or equivalent
• Proficient in Adobe software: Photoshop and Illustrator.
• A well-developed knowledge of foundational art principles (e.g. color theory, composition, anatomy, etc)

Nice to Haves

• Experience with ZBrush or similar tool
• Experience with Substance Painter and Designer
• Experience with Jira or similar project management tool
• Working experience in the Unreal Engine (or equivalent) including scene assembly, materials, lighting, FX, terrain sculpting.
• Ability to conceptualize ideas, produce concept art, storyboards, or mockups as needed and revise quickly.