# Senior Systems Designer

**Company**: Epic Games
**Location**: Cary
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739711

**Apply**: https://www.epicgames.com/site/careers/jobs/5736318004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0f2eefd7-c4f

## Description

## Senior Systems Designer

We're looking for a Senior Systems Designer to own the development of key progression, economy, and gameplay balance related features for a new game project.

### What You'll Do

- Work in close collaboration with project leads & directors to shape and evolve various complex design systems that support the engagement, gameplay, and creative vision of the project

- Design, document, prototype, and iterate on these systems, working with a team of developers across multiple disciplines, and oversee their successful implementation from start to finish

- Get hands on creating the scripting, data, and content required by those systems, diving into the engine and leveraging other tools

- Be responsible for soliciting and integrating feedback from across the team on your own initiative, ensuring we’re continually delivering a fun and fresh experience to our players

- Expand and iterate on those systems once they’re in the live environment, ensuring the game remains exciting and engaging to players

### What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of experience shipping titles as a Systems Designer, working on progression, economy, gameplay system, and gameplay balance features and content

- Experience working on live-service multiplayer environments and ability to get your hands dirty in Unreal Engine is preferred, bonus points for mobile game experience

- Demonstrated talent for empathizing with players and a deep understanding of player motivations, forms of play, and the effects of progression and goal setting on play

- Strong interest in game progression and economies, and an understanding of what makes them work

- Ability to take initiative and react quickly to changing project needs, drive decisions, then owning the outcome and vision

- You’re player-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative; These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

## Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

## Skills

### Required
- Systems Design
- Game Development
- Unreal Engine
- Game Progression
- Economy

### Nice to have
- Mobile Game Development
- Live-Service Multiplayer Environments