# Senior Systems Designer

**Company**: Epic Games
**Location**: Montreal, Canada
**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/en-US/careers/jobs/5806405004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5750da01-34d

## Description

## Senior Systems Designer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Designer to join our team at Epic Games. As a Senior Systems Designer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing key features related to progression, economy, and gameplay balance for a new game project.

### What You Will Do

- Collaborate closely with project leads and directors to shape and evolve complex design systems that support engagement, gameplay, and creative vision

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

- Participate actively in creating scripts, data, and content required by these systems by diving into the engine and leveraging other tools

- Solicit and integrate proactive feedback from the entire team to ensure a fun and engaging experience for players

- Develop and iterate on these systems once they are deployed in live environment to ensure the game remains engaging and fun for players

### What We Are Looking For

- More than 5 years of experience in delivering titles as a systems designer, having worked on progression, economy, game systems, and gameplay balance

- Experience working in multiplayer live service environments and ability to work directly in Unreal Engine, with mobile game experience being a plus

- Demonstrated talent for empathy towards players and a deep understanding of their motivations, play forms, and the effects of progression and objectives on the gaming experience

- Strong interest in game progression and economy, and understanding of their success mechanisms

- Ability to take initiative and react quickly to changing project needs, orient decisions, and assume results and vision

- Player-focused, passionate, solution-oriented, and innovative - these traits are a guarantee of success at Epic and influence everything we do

## Benefits

We pay 100% of employee and dependent benefits premiums, and offer additional coverage for medical, dental, and vision care, serious illness, telemedicine, life insurance, death or mutilation by accident insurance, and long-term disability insurance. We also offer a weekly indemnity (short-term disability) and a retirement savings plan with employer matching contributions. In addition to the employee assistance program, we offer a comprehensive mental well-being program through Modern Health, an organization that provides free therapy and coaching services to employees and dependents.

## Skills

### Required
- Unreal Engine
- game design
- game development
- game systems
- game balance
- progression
- economy

### Nice to have
- mobile game development
- multidisciplinary team collaboration
- scripting
- data creation
- content creation