Are you a kick-ass writer? Have your stories occupied players' imaginations for days, weeks -- years on end? Can you inspire artists to create whole worlds and races of creatures with a few, quality keystrokes? Do you strive for emotional imperviousness to constructive editorial, and have a burning desire to build a team of writers made of similar stuff? Then read on...

Responsibilities

• Histories and legends, combat dialog, weapon descriptions &c. Your words will help define Bungie's next game universe
• Work for and collaborate with a Design Director responsible for all aspects of storytelling
• Mentor and manage a team of internal and external writers

Requirements

• Exceptional creative writing skills, especially in service of vivid, complex, memorable characters
• Minimum 5 years game industry experience or two, shipped AAA games; branching or non-linear narrative experience a plus
• Solid track record of team leadership
• Excellent design and artistic sensibilities; straight-up mission or character design experience a plus
• High level of comfort in a collaborative writing process; solitary scribes need not apply
• Zero desire to parlay your game writing experience into a film, TV show, novel &c.

Still interested? Then we're interested in you. Please email us your resume along with a writing sample totaling no more than 1,500 words. Writing samples should show the breadth of your ability, and, as such, can be comprised of as many different kinds of writing as you like e.g., cinematic scenes, dialog spreadsheets, two line item descriptions &c.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you love the challenge of designing great gameplay? Do you have 10 ideas on how to make Halo’s player interface better? Do you hate that moment in a game when you realize that you’ve found the ultimate powerful weapon, making all others pointless? Are you an experienced game designer looking to work on AAA games with talented and passionate people in a team environment? If so we have the job for you! Bungie Studios is looking for a passionate, creative and hard-working Gameplay Design Lead for our next project.

Essential Functions

As the Gameplay Design Lead, you work closely with the Creative Director and lead a group of designers responsible for crafting, designing and implementing high-level game systems. You will collaborate with team members from other disciplines to drive the gameplay experience. You will also contribute to design processes and communication that will ensure your work is the very best it can possibly be.

Responsibilities

You will lead a team of designers to build a compelling second-to-second gameplay experience. You and your team will be responsible for:

• Collaboratively design top notch gameplay systems.
• Identify and resolve conflicts with other disciplines in a way that best meets the design goals of the project.
• Ensure the commitment of your team to achieving well understood goals that are in alignment with the creative direction of the game.
• Design, implement and balance all gameplay mechanics.
• Design and implement all player controls and cameras.
• Build and maintain all game objects.
• Make sure new players are taught how to play.
• Make the second-to-second gameplay experience accessible to as many people as possible.
• Work with sound, effect and animation artists to make in-game cause and effect clear to players.
• Plan, run and respond to usability tests.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience successfully leading a group of designers through a collaborative process for designing systems.
• Experience hiring, training, mentoring and managing peer and junior designers.
• Passion for collaboration with designers, artists, programmers, musicians, testers and producers to achieve a common goal.
• Dedication to contributing to a positive work environment.
• Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative.
• Intuitive understanding of how second-to-second action games work and why people play them.
• Thorough understanding of game engines, technology and the game development process.
• Experience with many modes of online play.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
• Solid math skills.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you dream about creating worlds imbued with real value and consequence? Can you find the fine line between a reward that encourages players to have fun and an incentive that enslaves them? Can you devise a way for a player to grow while preserving a delicate game balance? If you answered yes to these questions (and you are a creative genius, a charismatic visionary and a work-a-holic game-o-phile) you might want to polish up your resume and apply to be Bungie’s next Player Investment Design Lead.

The Player Investment Design Lead directs a group of designers responsible for founding a robust and rewarding investment path, supported by consistent, rich and secure incentives that drives player behavior toward having fun and investing in their characters, and then validates those systems through intense simulation, testing and iteration.

Responsibilities

• Designing the mechanics which drive in-game player reward and incentives.
  • So players feel invested in the world and their character.
  • So players have long-term goals.
  • So players can't grief or exploit them.
• Running simulations of these mechanics based on expected player behavior.
• Testing these simulated results against actual player behavior and tuning the live system.
• Create content that are rewards in-and-of-themselves.
• Organize the Reward Content Designers, who create the reward content for those systems.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Command of Microsoft Excel.
• Outstanding organizational skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to work well under deadlines.
• Ability to work well in a team environment.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you finish games the same night you get them? Does the loop between your living room, dining room, and kitchen look like it would make a kick ass multiplayer arena? Do you replay games to discover new secrets and repeat great experiences? Put the controller down and pay attention - Bungie is looking for a passionate, creative and hard working Designer for our next project.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Design Director, Mission Design Lead, other Designers, Engineers, and Artists to develop compelling experiences in our game world.
• Work closely with Environmental Artists to construct environments and script missions and multiplayer spaces with our proprietary scripting language and toolset.
• Evaluate gameplay pacing, flow, and difficulty curves to polish game encounters for an optimum player experience.
• Document the design of and changes to your portions of the game to ensure smooth communication with other disciplines on the team.

Qualifications

• The desire to achieve personal excellence as part of an outstanding team.
• Prior experience designing levels and scripting encounters for action games.
• A creative and innovative approach to traditional design problems.
• A willingness to take design direction when it is offered and collaborate with team members from different disciplines.
• The focus and motivation to work independently when needed.
• Ability to drive a gameplay space from concept to final polishing stage.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie Studios is looking for an experienced developer of server-side software to create and maintain scalable services to communicate with our games and our internal development tools. The Developer will generally use C# and SQL Server, authoring new tools and services and maintaining and expanding existing ones. Existing databases in this toolset have reached 50 billion rows, and 89,000 transactions/sec, so a firm understanding of performance and scalability is essential.

Essential Functions

• Design scalable, reusable software pipelines for processing and exposing large quantities of data with the flexibility to adapt to changing interfaces as the game code evolves at the same time as the toolset.
• Write clean, well-designed C# code to implement these original designs as well as to fit in to existing tools that need to grow over time.
• Design and implement databases that scale without predetermined limit.
• Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where future projects can benefit from its use.
• Work with the Operations team to ensure stable performance of user-facing server features in the datacenter.

Desired Qualifications

• 3+ years experience with C# and SQL Server.
• Experience with .Net Web Services or WCF.
• Experience writing and shipping production server code preferred.
• Solid 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.
• Working knowledge of C++.
• Passion for making great games.
• Bachelors Degree in CS or related field.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Create, champion, and control some of the most load-intensive server-side game features the world has ever witnessed by taking on the role of a Senior Server Programmer at Bungie. Previous experience might include platform-wide Matchmaking services that successfully dispatched hundreds of thousands of concurrent combatants or massive back-ends that cut a brutal swath through a merciless horde of high-load multiplayer features. If you accept our challenge, you WILL be responsible for design and implementation of multiple large, awesomely innovative features. Proven ability to work in code and databases of your own design is essential. Godspeed.

Essential Functions

• Work across disciplines to determine the desired behavior of server-side game features.
• Design highly scalable systems with the flexibility to adapt to evolving game design.
• Write clean C# code to implement these original designs.
• Design and implement databases that scale without predetermined limit.
• Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where our projects can benefit from its use.
• Work with the Operations team to ensure stable performance of your features in the datacenter.

Desired Qualifications

• 6+ years game development experience.
• 4+ years experience with C# and SQL Server.
• Experience with .Net Web Services or WCF.
• Experience writing and shipping production server code for a large-scale online game or platform.
• Solid 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.
• Working knowledge of C++.
• Passion for making great games.
• Bachelors Degree in CS or related field.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie requires the skills and services of a ruthlessly competent Network Engineer to help us build on our already dizzying heights of netcode excellence. We need a genius, with a keen interest in every aspect of networking, to power our human-fueled engine of social gaming.

Essential Functions

Own vast sections of our multiplayer game engine, matchmaking and party system
Work with designers to specify and cost multiplayer features

Desired Qualifications

Ability to write solid, maintainable C/C++ code
Good communication skills
Passion for playing and developing exceptional console games
A BA in computer science or math, or equivalent experience

Plusses

Desire to understand systems right down to bits on the wire
Professional C/C++ coding and design experience
Previous console experience
Knowledge of networking protocols and infrastructure
Experience working in a team environment

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie seeks software testers for assignment on location in Kirkland, WA. Applicants must be detail oriented, organized, motivated, and capable of working with a team in high pressure situations. Must also be capable of working under development and test managers, able to closely research bugs, able to narrow down reproduction cases, and be ready to adapt to a fast moving, reactive, efficient work environment testing industry leading games and technology.

Essential Functions

• Researching and reporting software defects (bugs).
• Verifying and testing bug fixes.
• Takes direction from and reports to Test Managers.
• Must learn to operate and leverage test tools: Bug Database and other Bungie developed tools.
• Execution of written test cases.
• May be asked to assist leads with administrative duties.
• May be assigned as a mentor / area owner depending on experience.

Desired Qualifications

• Flexible with work hours: Must be able to commit to 40+ hour weeks. Overtime availability and late shift availability are strongly desired.
• Punctual in attendance and completing assigned tasks.
• Strong comprehension of computers and videogame software/hardware.
• Vast exposure to professional, high tech environment.
• Leadership experience in test or similar technical field is a plus but not required.
• Analytical thinker. Strong independent problem solving skills.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Associates or Bachelors degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent work experience or training is preferred.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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