Senior Combat Designer (CONTRACT)

The role

The Senior Combat Designer (Enemies/Bosses) is responsible for the quality and delivery of combat gameplay focused on enemies, mini-bosses, and bosses. The role involves prototyping, implementation, iteration, polish, and balance for AI combatants within a cross-disciplinary pod.

What you will do

• Implement and iterate on AI enemy combatants, mini-boss characters, and large-scale boss encounters.
• Use proprietary internal tools and scripting systems to implement enemy AI and bosses.
• Collaborate with Gameplay Programming, Animation, and other pod members.
• Write and update gameplay system documentation for Enemy AI.
• Gather and prioritize feedback to improve enemy and boss design.
• Support Mission Designers through best practices, training, and model encounters.
• Coordinate with other combat design staff on game-wide combat issues.
• Contribute to a safe, supportive, and creative work environment.
• Perform other creative duties as needed.

Required qualifications

• Five or more years of professional game design experience.
• At least one shipped title as a Combat Designer.
• Expertise in the current state of combat design craft across the games industry.
• Experience in designing, prototyping, implementing, and polishing enemy AI combatants and boss characters.
• High proficiency with modern game engines, such as Unreal or proprietary engines.
• Proven experience in scripting, prototyping, and iterating gameplay systems directly.
• Strong skills in written, verbal, and visual communication across disciplines.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Intermediate knowledge and experience with level editing tools and scripting (Unreal Engine, Unity, or similar editors).

Nice to have

• Experience in 3D layout
• Adobe Illustrator experience
• UE4 Blueprint scripting skills

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage (which may include criminal background checks for some roles).

About the company

Insomniac Games is looking for a Senior Combat Designer (Enemies/Bosses). This position is for temporary engagement through staffing partner, Yoh Enterprise Solutions.