# Senior Systems Designer

**Company**: Epic Games
**Location**: Bellevue
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: ",   "salaryMin": 158988,   "salaryMax": 233182,   "salaryCurrency": "USD",   "salaryPeriod": "year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739711

**Apply**: https://www.epicgames.com/site/careers/jobs/5806397004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9d23c8ba-686

## Description

"" ## What Makes Us Epic?  Epic Games is a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. We pride ourselves on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Our success is built on talented, passionate people who continually strive to innovate and push the boundaries of game development.  ## Design  ### What We Do  As a Senior Systems Designer at Epic Games, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of interactive entertainment. You will work on designing and prototyping key progression, economy, and gameplay balance-related features for a new game project. This includes collaborating with a cross-disciplinary development team to implement these features and ensuring they meet the project's creative vision.  ### Responsibilities  * Work 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 team of developers across multiple disciplines * Get hands-on creating the scripting, data, and content required by those systems, diving into the engine and leveraging other tools * Solicit and integrate feedback from across the team on your own initiative, ensuring a fun and fresh experience for players * Expand and iterate on those systems once they're in the live environment, ensuring the game remains exciting and engaging to players  ### Requirements  * 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 * 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  ## Pay Transparency Information  The expected annual base pay range for this position in California is $158,988-$233,182 USD, and in Washington, it is $144,535-$211,984 USD. ""

## Skills

### Required
- Systems Design
- Game Development
- Unreal Engine
- Live-Service Multiplayer Environments
- Game Progression and Economies