About Us

We’re seeking a grizzled veteran (or some degree thereof), skilled in the arts of war and programming, to join our quest for world domination. Bring your strength to our cause, inspire awe in those around you, and make our games great. Help us conquer the beast called graphics and feast with us upon its black heart. As an Experienced Graphics Programmer, you’ll:

• Demonstrate technical excellence and lead by example while working with our team to code the fastest, cleanest graphics engine ever seen on this or any other planet
• Own large sections of the graphics engine, core tech and/or features and tackle the resulting challenges and opportunities
• Communicate and work well in a close-knit environment to create games that are both beautiful and fun to play
• Build a lasting foundation of flexible, maintainable code that will strike fear into generations to come

Required Skills

• Professional experience programming in the game industry (3+ years), with a history of shipping quality games
• Professional experience programming in C, C++ and GPU languages
• Experience programming visual effects and/or real time systems
• Experience working on console or PC games
• Expertise in current graphics algorithms, hardware and mathematics
• Proven ability to independently design and maintain large software systems
• Solid understanding of all aspects of game programming, including physics, networking, and AI
• Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent experience

Nice-to-Have Skills

• PS3 development experience
• Experience as a senior engineer on a large team
• Previous published games
• A love of combat on the high seas

You spend your nights browsing the mobile app store, but rather than buying anything you say, “I can write that!” When Apple releases a new version of iOS you immediately download the updated SDK to see how the API has changed. You own a museum-sized collection of smart phones and have written apps for all of them. If any of that sounds like you, then we might have the position you’re looking for.

Bungie is looking for a Senior Engineer with a passion for mobile application development. Our mobile development team is focused on establishing real time connectivity for millions of users and terabytes of data. Join our team and define the interface of Bungie’s next gaming universe to the world.

Required Skills

• 10+ years professional experience as a software engineer
• Shipped and supported at least one client/server connected mobile game or mobile application
• Ability to lead by example and direct the work of other mobile engineers
• Experience with C++ and/or Objective-C
• Demonstrated knowledge of current development methodologies, patterns and best practices
• Ability to independently design, write and maintain high quality code
• Understanding of current mobile device networking, security, peripherals and performance capabilities
• BS degree in CS or related discipline
• Passion for games

Nice-to-have Skills

• 3+ years leading a group of engineers
• Experience with iOS and Android or similar mobile SDK frameworks
• Experience with SQL and database technologies
• Familiarity with current Microsoft .Net technologies
• Experience with one or more scripting language (Javascript, Lua, Python, etc…)
• Prior experience in the Games/Entertainment industry

Does your heart belong to test, but your head to engineering? Do you frequently find yourself saying “there’s got to be a better way” when observing error-prone manual testing? Do you want to learn numerous facets of a game while helping many-a-tester along the way? As a Software Development Engineer in Test at Bungie, you will empower testers to be at their best. You will give them the tools to make their job easier and eliminate repetitive aspects which should have been entirely automated. The impact of your contributions will be felt across the entire test team and they will struggle to remember a time before you.

Required Skills

• Proficient in C# and .NET
• Professional experience testing software
• Experience writing automation, specifically unit and stress tests
• Passion for supporting and enabling others
• Facility to analyze, prioritize, and solve problems efficiently, as well as being thorough, highly organized, and detail-oriented

Nice-to-Have Skills

• BS in Computer Science
• Previous game development experience
• Experience with technologies such as WPF, ASP.NET and SQL
• Working knowledge of C++

You can spot a security bug a mile away. Crypto suites aren’t just buzzwords to you, they’re nuanced and quirky friends.  And, you can rattle off ways that smart people have accidentally misused them. You can wax poetic about online game ecosystems that have been unbalanced by exploits, then code up alternatives that would have withstood those attacks. You’re the security expert, and that luminous white glow emanating from the coatroom seems to be coming from your hat.

Bungie needs your help making sure our next game is secure from top to bottom. As a security tools programmer, you will look for the cheats, hacks and exploits that could besmear the game experience for Bungie’s legion of fans. You will mercilessly catalog these threats and neutralize them. The scope of your contribution will be massive, encompassing the end-to-end security health across both the game clients on multiple platforms and the online services backing them. You’ll work closely with other engineers to ensure that feature designs factor in security from the beginning. If you possess these skills, come and join us on our path to world domination!

Required Skills

• 3+ years’ experience with C#, .NET and SQL Server
• Experience writing and shipping test automation for online services
• Experience with threat assessment and security analysis for online systems
• Conversational knowledge of other games’ past security problems and resulting analyses
• Ability to do self-directed work as well as work alongside a team of other developers
• Working knowledge of C++
• Passion for making great games

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with .NET Web Services or WCF
• Experience writing and shipping production server code

At Bungie, we're building an amazing new universe, and that universe will be powered by our amazing online services. Rich interaction with other players, persistence of your accomplishments and those of your friends, security to keep it clean and fun, and never-before-seen game features that will blow your mind. You would expect nothing less of Bungie and we will not let you down.

Building a universe is not easy, so we're looking for someone with the talent and passion that will help breathe life into our creation.

As an Experienced Server/Online Engineer, you will do just that. You will work with game designers and other engineers to determine not only what to build but how. And then you'll craft it, run it, and profit. We don't believe in strict lines, so you'll be wearing a lot of hats... whatever it takes to get the job done.

If you want the autonomy to blaze your own path, to be a part of something great and something you can be proud of for the rest of your life, apply now.

Per audacia ad astra.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of experience with high-scale, high-performance service development
• 4+ years of experience with C#, especially .Net 4.5
• 2+ years of experience debugging production systems
• 2+ years of experience analyzing systems for performance and implementing perf improvements
• Solid understanding of database performance and tuning
• Strong familiarity with Windows Server platforms
• Working knowledge of C++
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment and engineer for shifting requirements
• Proven track record of working well with other teams, such as QA, Production, Operations, etc.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• A burning desire to make the most awesome game ever

Have you ever played a racing game and wished you could trade cars with a friend using your phone? Or done something amazing in an RPG and wished everyone else who passed that spot could see a monument to your accomplishment?

As a Senior Web Application Engineer at Bungie you'll drive discussions with game designers to link the gameplay on our console game clients to the wider world of devices and other players. We’re looking for an experienced engineer to lead creation and maintain a platform of scalable web/mobile facing services, generally using C# and SQL Server, working in collaboration with multiple teams.

Required Skills

• 10+ years professional experience as a software engineer
• Ability to lead by example and direct the work of other engineers
• Expert C#/SQL Server development experience
• Professional .Net Web Services or WCF development experience
• Experience with web technologies like .Net MVC or Web Forms
• Understanding of database performance and tuning
• Strong familiarity with Windows server platforms
• Ability to do self-directed work as well as work alongside a team of other developers
• Enthusiasm to turn the ideas of game designers into reality
• Experience designing scalable, reusable software pipelines
• 4 year degree in computer science, applied mathematics or related fields

Nice-to-Have Skills

• 3+ years leading a group of engineers
• Professional Games industry experience
• Experience designing, writing and implementing databases that scale without predetermined limits
• Experience developing server-side software to create and maintain scalable services
• Experience writing and shipping production server code for a large-scale online game or platform

Building better worlds is a crucial component of making a game that will captivate the imaginations of the people who will play it. Bungie is looking for talented individuals to help create awe-inspiring visuals for breath-taking gaming environments. This is an amazing opportunity to work with world-class art talent to develop a visually-inspired AAA title.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with mission designers to design environments that are awesome gameplay spaces as well as visually stunning works of art
• Be responsible for modeling environment geometry from simple mass-out to finished states
• UV map and paint custom texture sets for levels
• Light spaces using proprietary lighting tools developed just for you
• Finish out environments with detail objects, decals, dynamic lights, and animated objects

Required Skills

• You have strong communication skills
• You have a strong understanding of light, value, composition, color, staging and detail in environmental design
• You have a good sense of scale and spatial awareness
• You have an understanding of how the environment affects gameplay
• Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program that provides an education in the fundamentals of art
• Knowledge of Photoshop, Maya, Max and other 2D/3D applications
• Three or more years experience working as an artist on a shipped title
• A passion for games and creating environments

A game is nothing without awe-inspiring environments for the player to inhabit. These environments must be envisioned and made real by the artists that will create them. Bungie is looking for journeymen and fresh talent eager to join an incredible team of project artists responsible for adding an unprecedented level of style and scale to our next AAA title.

Estimated Duration: Long term, project (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).

Responsibilities

• Translate approved concept art into 3D elements of gameplay and cinematic spaces
• Take geometry from rough to finished states
• UV map and paint custom texture sets for environment geometry
• Light spaces using proprietary lighting tools
• Create and place detail objects, decals, dynamic lights, and animated objects
• Collaborate with experienced artists toward common milestones

Required Skills

• Strong communication skills
• Understand light, value, composition, color, staging and detail in environmental design
• Good sense of scale and spatial awareness
• Understand how the environment affects gameplay
• Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program that provides an education in the fundamentals of art
• Knowledge of Photoshop, Maya, Max and other 2D/3D applications
• Professional experience working on a current generation title
• A passion for games and creating environments

As Bungie creates new worlds for gamers to inhabit, we’ll need talented people to shed some light on the subject. The ideal candidate for this position appreciates the difference between day-break, high-noon, and the magic hour.

Bungie is looking for Environment Lighting Artists who will bring an entirely new universe out of darkness. The main function of this position is to ensure that the Art Director’s vision for lighting and materials is realized. To achieve this, you’ll work with proprietary tools built to light awe-inspiring gameplay settings.

Estimated Duration: Long term, project (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).

Responsibilities

• Create the lighting look for our games in accordance with the art direction
• Own lighting for game levels and dynamic/scripted lighting

Required Skills

• AA/BFA preferred, or at least demonstrates through portfolio an industry standard level of art
• Strong sense of light and shadow demonstrated by artwork, photography, theatre, film or CG work
• Knowledge of colour theory (Art History can be useful)
• Ability to follow design reference and sympathy with wide range of styles
• Ability to light characters and environments, interior & exterior, different times of day, etc.
• Understanding of composition and the ability to enhance mood by lighting
• Experience with materials/shaders and their relationship to light
• Wide understanding of lighting/rendering technologies (pre-render and real-time rendering, sub surface scattering, HDR, refraction, etc)
• Must possess excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Must be able to work in a collaborative environment, taking direction from the Art Director/Leads as necessary

Nice-To-Have

• Experience with in-house game engines a plus

Can you take a sketch and drive it to reality? Do your daily activities have you crossing multiple disciplines to bring your creation to life? Can you give form to everything from jet engines to fairy dust? Can you tackle everything from rigging and animating to fooling the GPU with shader network magic? Do you have an aversion to Kyptonite?

Bungie is looking for skilled, talented individuals capable of taking an idea or sketch and fully realizing it as an impeccably detailed asset. The 3D Generalist must be capable with functionality such as mechanical props, FX, and animating simple rigged assets. This is an amazing opportunity to work with world-class art talent to develop a visually-inspired AAA title.

Estimated Duration: Long term, project (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).

Responsibilities

• Translate concepts and reference material into next-gen game content like mechanical objects
• Collaborate with art directors, designers, programmers and animators on object specifications, functions, style, limitations, etc.
• Incorporate technical expertise, artistic ability, an understanding of mechanisms, and a basic understanding of animation while building objects
• Temp rig and animate simple mechanical assets to meet specific design goals
• Create innovative visual solutions using existing technology in new approaches
• Create spectacular materials leveraging multiple shader functions such as self-illumination maps, diffuse maps, height maps, specular masks, detail maps, reflection maps and sequenced bitmaps
• Ensure that the high-quality bar established by the Art Director Lead Artist is maintained

Required Skills

• Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program that provides an education in the fundamentals of art
• Strong sense of surface development, proportion, and mechanical functionality
• Strong artistic sense balanced with good technical knowledge
• Two or more years of proven experience creating inorganic objects in a feature film or game production environment
• One or more years’ experience working as a 3d artist on a shipped game title
• Sketching, drawing, painting and design skills desirable
• Thorough knowledge of 3D Max or Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush, Mudbox and other 2d/3d applications
• Experience creating high-poly models for normal ripping purposes
• Experience creating rigs and simple animations for machines
• Good communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment
• Passion and desire to create great games

We’re seeking an experienced Special Effects Artist with the right blend of artistic inspiration and technical savvy to create effects for our next AAA project.

The ideal candidate should possess strong technical and artistic skills. The candidate should understand how to work with a team and navigate the challenges of modern AAA game development to produce stunning in-game visual effects that support gameplay, cinematics, and environments.

Estimated Duration: Long term, project (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Effects Art Lead and other departments to author effect assets that enhance gameplay and storytelling
• Use Proprietary Tools, Photoshop and 3D Studio Max to create effects that balance the visual goals of the project with the performance demands of the game engine

Required Skills

• Previous game industry experience as an Effects Artist
• Strong understanding of the principles of real time particle effects
• Proficient in Photoshop and 3D packages
• Ability and willingness to follow direction, collaborate productively with others, and work to meet deadlines as necessary
• A portfolio or demo reel that demonstrates strong artistic and technical skills as well as a firm grasp of timing and scale
• A passion for games

Were you a software engineer in a past life who has now chosen a different path? Are you always finding yourself thinking about how to do things more efficiently and in a more cost-effective way? Are you constantly sharing how-to’s, fix-it’s, tips, and hacks with other people? Have you found yourself becoming a translator and peacemaker between creatives and engineers? Are you drawn to game design? Do you seek an opportunity where you can combine your programming experience with your game design talent to solve challenging an interesting problems? If so, we have the job for you! Bungie Studios is looking for a passionate, creative and hard-working Technical Designer for our next project.

Responsibilities

As a Technical Designer at Bungie, you will be the liaison between designers and programmers and will be working with them to set requirements for content editing and event scripting tools. Your primary role asks you to help world designers optimize their workflow, and you will be the primary “go-to” person for the implementation of complex content that stretches the capability of existing systems and projects that require heavy designer/engineer interaction. This flexible position includes both programming and design responsibilities which we will adapt to your interests and capabilities. This is primarily a game design role, but if needed you must be able to perform the duties of a software engineer. You will spend the vast majority of your time on design, but for specific projects, some of your time may be dedicated to programming.

Required Skills

• The desire to achieve personal excellence as part of an outstanding team
• Good design instincts and an understanding of how core systems effects gameplay
• A willingness to take design direction when it is offered and collaborate with team members from different disciplines
• A relentless desire for solving design problems; you are sociable and an information sharer
• Be a leader within the department for cleanly implementing content with our designer tools and scripting language and solve creative/technical problems with design and engineering
• Be able to define and maintain production pipeline, process, and workflow
• Ability to drive tracking down problems in current systems, predicting problems in developing systems, producing test cases, and implementing fixes in systems and tools
• Multiple programming languages: one of C/C++/C#/Java to a reasonable knowledge required
• Technical Degree (CS, IT, SE, CE, or equivalent work experience) is a plus

Bungie is seeking a passionate, creative, and omnipotent designer to build world activities within in our next universe. Your vision will become the Authority of Great Player Experiences, your ever-expanding mind will unleash the Sacred Secrets of Replay Value, and your voice will lead our players to the Promised Land.

As a World Designer at Bungie you will work with Designers, Producers, Artists, and Engineers to design our game worlds, develop engaging multiplayer experiences, and create dynamic AI encounters that will be talked about for years to come. You will evaluate gameplay pacing, flow, difficulty curves, and balance to polish all game activities for an optimum player experience. You will partner with user testing to evaluate ideas and implementations. You will ultimately be responsible for setup and fine tuning of gameplay experiences, including everything from story moments to player respawn points, and everything in between.

Required Skills

• Prior experience designing campaign and multiplayer levels or mods for action games
• Strong problem solving ability and methodology with a focus on creative, innovative solutions
• Proven abilities solving challenging, complex and difficult problems
• Extensive analytic understanding of action game mechanics across the industry
• Exceptional team player with strong communication skills
• Willingness to take design direction when offered, and the ability and motivation to work independently when it isn’t
• Ability to communicate ideas for 3D spaces in 2D
• An all-consuming desire to help Bungie create the best games in the known universe

It’s the economy, stupid! Drive players to invest in our game economy by analyzing the subtleties of behavioral economics and pondering the pitfalls of specialization and free trade. Theorize why people make irrational economic choices and use the tricks you’ve learned to ensure players only make the irrational choices you want them to. Create an economic system that will fulfill a player’s needs just as much as shooting an alien in the face.

The Economy Designer at Bungie will develop a robust and rewarding game economy that drives player behavior toward intended goals and validate those systems through intense simulation, testing and iteration. You’ll design the systems and mechanics which drive in-game trade, satisfy the players’ need for possessions and wealth whilst ensuring rewards retain their intended value despite attempts to exploit or grief the system. You will determine what data is necessary to mine, ensure we have all of the hooks necessary to gather that data, and come up with all of the interesting metrics and questions we should ask of that data. You will run simulations of these mechanics based on expected player behavior and test these simulated results against actual player behavior; tuning the live system accordingly.

Required Skills

• Degree in Economics and/or professional working experience with online game economies.
• Deep understanding of the social, cognitive, and emotional factors that drive behavior.
• Excellent math and analytical skills.
• Ability to model complex economic systems and command of Excel.
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills.
• Strong drive for excellence.
• Ability to work well in a collaborative team environment under deadlines.
• A strong desire to translate your passion and talent into a vibrant and rewarding gaming experience for players.

Do you dream about creating worlds imbued with real value and consequence? Can you tell the difference between a simple reward that only drives the player to the game and a meaningful incentive that truly captivates their imagination? Do you have ideas for systems that will enable a player to evolve within the heart-pounding experience of an action game? If you answered yes to any of these questions (and you're a passionate gamer with an unrelenting work-ethic) you might want to polish up your resume and apply to be Bungie’s next Player Investment Designer.

A Player Investment Designer develops a robust and rewarding path for the gamer to follow. You will design consistent, rich, and secure rewards that drive player behavior toward having fun and investing in their experience. You will then validate those systems through intense simulation, testing and iteration.

Responsibilities

• Design mechanics which drive in-game player reward and incentives
• Give players long-term goals to invest them in the game experience
• Design systems that would be impervious to griefing and free from potential exploits 
• Run simulations of these mechanics based on expected player behavior
• Test these simulated results against actual player behavior and tune the live system

Required Skills

• Experience with many modes of online play
• Experience with online incentives (achievements, rewards, economic, etc) and a passion for understanding what drives player behavior within them
• Solid math skills
• A thirst for problems to solve
• Command of Microsoft Excel
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work well under deadlines
• Ability to work well in a team environment

Bungie is seeking a Senior IT Engineer to plan, deploy, and maintain its complex environments. Can you solve bizarre problems and tackle unusual technology related requests by employing the deadly art of Datacenter-fu? Then come help Bungie in our quest for World Domination.

Responsibilities

• Support, design and build out technology to support the development and production environments for Bungie’s games
• Work with team members to troubleshoot complex issues and work with lower tier support on escalations
• Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where our projects and environments can benefit from its use
• Strong organization, planning and project management skills

Required Skills

• Great communication and documentation skills
• Microsoft Windows troubleshooting and experience in a windows server enterprise, and at least moderate level of experience in networking maintenance and support in Cisco IOS or Juniper JUNOS
• Experience in many of the following:
  • Managing mid to large projects including scheduling, budget, and resource coordination
  • Knowledge of datacenter and live production best practices and experience working in live high availability customer facing production environments
  • Working with multiple vendors to select and test new technology, including sourcing demo and trybuy gear
  • Active Directory in a multi-domain environment. Administrator experience with group policies, replication, group membership, backup and restores, scripting AD objects, building new domains
  • Backup infrastructure. Experience with 3rd party backup vendors such as BackupExec or CommVault
  • Storage experience, SAN/NAS configuration and implementation
• Technical proficiency in most of these areas:
  • SQL
  • Exchange
  • Active Directory
  • Cisco or Juniper routers and switches
  • IIS
  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • Certificate Infrastructure/PKI
  • Wireless Ethernet Technologies
  • Server monitoring
  • VPN and Firewall setup
  • Backup and recoveries

Nice-to-have Skills

Experience in spec’ing and implementing wan and alternate backhaul technologies. Electronic security system deployment and configuration (cardkey, smartcard auth). VOIP technology experience, including teleconferencing.

Bungie is looking to commission a gifted Motion Graphic Design Artist to craft magnificent works worthy of the kick ass games we make. Candidates must wield an impeccable command of the production process, from initial concept, design, animation, art direction to final render, and should be able to showcase their mastery of creative design for both entertainment and marketing initiatives.

Required Skills

• Professional experience utilizing the motion graphic toolset including, but not limited to: Advanced After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash and HTML5
• Knowledgeable in the many and varied graphic design techniques and styles, and capable of implementing their visual paradigms effectively
• Modeling, lighting, camera in Cinema 4D, Maya and 3D Max expertise will be a big plus
• In-depth knowledge of visual design, composition, color theory and understanding of how to communicate effectively with design and motion graphics
• Must have a highly collaborative nature, capable of working and communicating designs with both internal groups and external agencies and studios
• Experience working with agencies, film, television, digital media and game publishing required
• At least 5 years of work related experience required
• Experience in graphic design for applications required and a focus on games is strongly desired
• Passionate, enthusiastic and knowledgeable of the game industry
• Must have the ability to understand technology issues and communicate information effectively
• Knowledge and use of style manuals, reference materials, layout skills while showing ingenuity and creativity with unique concept and ideas
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Industrial Design or related area required
• A combination of education and experience may substitute for a Bachelor's degree

Online Portfolio reveiw required

Bungie is looking for skilled linguists to help us deliver our next game into the hands of players around the world. We need enthusiastic, detail-oriented, bilingual wordsmiths who can not only test our products in their native tongues, but also provide translations when needed and help to polish our text until it truly shines. As a member of our internal localization team, you will be responsible for ensuring the technical accuracy of all translation as well as its stylistic consistency and overall quality. Do you have a way with words in another language? Do misspellings and abuses of grammar haunt your dreams? Then you might be just who we’re looking for!

Estimated Duration: Long term, project (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).

Responsibilities

• Proofread and edit Italian game scripts, manuals, and related materials
• Test game software after localized text and audio have been implemented
• Report, triage, and resolve all Italian text and audio bugs
• Provide in-house English to Italian translation as needed
• Maintain Italian game glossary and style guides
• Collaborate with external translators

Required Skills

• Native fluency in Italian and proficiency in English
• Impeccable Italian spelling and grammar
• Strong creative writing ability
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Superior attention to detail
• Willingness to work extended hours when required

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Prior experience in video game translation or testing
• Knowledge of science fiction and/or fantasy genres
• Advanced gameplay skills

Please include a one-page Italian writing sample in .doc/docx format along with your English-language resume and cover letter. The subject of the writing sample should be a fictional conversation between two characters from a movie, book, or game you have recently enjoyed.

We are looking for a passionate, talented, and hands-on tester to help us staff a small web test team. We need testers who know games and love the web. This is a job testing our website, rather than our next game. Are you eager to help us sustain Bungie.net for the community that calls it home? Can you help us anticipate the stresses that will come when they move in?

Required Skills

• 2+ year experience web testing
• Strong organizational skills
• Experience creating test cases
• Strong communication skills
• Strong troubleshooting ability
• Have strong bug-writing and investigational abilities as well as be a born problem solver
• Ability to work in a cross-discipline environment with a desire to work closely with designers and engineers to verify their systems work properly in networked environments
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Must be adaptable and willing to handle daily randomization
• Willingness to work over 40 hours per week when necessary to ensure the quality of the project

Nice-to-Have Skills

• BS in Computer Science
• Experience with HTML, CSS, C#
• Familiarity with network capture / manipulation tools such as Fiddler / Netmon

Do you spend your free time trying to figure out how to break the games you’re playing? Do you see those bugs in games that none of your friends notice until you point them out? Are you obsessed with finding clever ways to get to the top of the leaderboards easily? Do you like breaking things and letting people know how you did it? We may have a job for you.

Testers at Bungie are grouped into teams, responsible for ensuring that an area of the game is ready to ship. This involves ad-hoc testing, flawlessly executing test passes, rigorous attention to detail, and amazing communication skills. You will work with your lead on a day-to-day basis to determine how to most effectively use your skills.

Required Skills

• 2+ year experience software testing
• Strong organizational skills
• Experience creating test cases
• Strong communication skills
• Strong troubleshooting ability
• Have strong bug-writing and investigational abilities as well as be a born problem solver
• Must be willing to execute complicated regression scenarios using multiple platforms (multi-tasking)
• Ability to work in a cross-discipline environment with a desire to work closely with designers and engineers to verify their systems work properly in networked environments
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Must be adaptable and willing to handle daily randomization
• Willingness to work over 40 hours per week when necessary to ensure the quality of the project

Nice-to-Have Skills

• BS in Computer Science
• Previous experience working on a shipped console title
• Experience testing multiple SKUs (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)

We're currently looking for people to test

• Gameplay
• Content
• Networking
• PS3
• Graphics
• User Interface

Bungie is looking for test professionals who believe that the only good bug is a dead bug. When you find an error in game functionality, do you crave total understanding of the problem? Are you compelled to dig into the bowels of that system to discover how it’s truly working? We are looking for testers who strive to see the whole puzzle instead of just a piece.

Testers in these areas must have a drive to understand complex technical systems. They’re not deterred by looking at logs and debug data all day. The ideal tester can remain unphased by not actually playing the game for most of the time. An ideal candidate comes from a technical background, and carried with them a desire to build on those skills. The person we seek strives to enhance our productivity and learn what they need to know to boost their own effectiveness.

Required Skills

• 2+ year experience software testing
• Experience testing code driven, technical areas
• Scripting or coding experience (C# preferred)
• Strong organizational skills
• Experience creating test cases
• Strong communication skills
• Strong troubleshooting ability
• Have strong bug-writing and investigational abilities as well as be a born problem solver
• Must be willing to execute complicated regression scenarios using multiple platforms (multi-tasking)
• Ability to work in a cross-discipline environment with a desire to work closely with designers and engineers to verify their systems work properly in networked environments
• Must be adaptable and willing to handle daily randomization
• Willingness to work over 40 hours per week when necessary to ensure the quality of the project

Nice-to-Have Skills

• BS in Computer Science
• Desire to enhance productivity through scripting and automation
• Previous experience working on a shipped console title
• Experience testing multiple SKUs (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)

We're currently looking for people to test

• Matchmaking
• Game/server interaction
• Bungie.net
• Mobile
• Networking
• PS3