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Join the Bungie Family

We’re always on the hunt for talented passionate people who desire to create the best games possible.

If that sounds like you, please send a resume to careers@bungie.com and include the position for which you are applying in the subject line of the email (or you can use the job-specific email links included in the positions to the left).

Don’t forget to include samples of your work (attached files or URLs are great), which clearly demonstrate your artistic proficiency in a specific area. For example, if you’re applying for a character artist position, we’d love to see your strongest character work up front versus paging through several environment and vehicle shots before arriving at your gruesomely cool monsters. Detailing how your reel is broken down is also paramount; we want to know what you did and how you did it. Finally, please be sure to put your best, most polished and approved work forward. We look forward to checking it out!

Bungie Benefits

Behind every great game developer is a great benefits package. We love to lavish our employees in luxurious benefits. Feast your eyes on a mere sampling of what we have to offer:

  • Medical, dental and vision benefits. It will be hard to find better coverage.
  • 401K with a generous match. Your future self will thank you.
  • Highly-competitive compensation. This includes salary, performance bonus and profit sharing on titles.
  • One of the best time-off/holiday plans east AND west of the Mississippi.
  • Paid health club/gym membership to counteract the continuous supply of delicious snacks and treats.
  • Creative, comfy and collaborative working environment. See the pictures.
  • Continuous flow of Bungie 'love.' Think pentathlons, Bungie Day, food trucks and foosball. Little things to show we care.

...and more!!! In the spirit of mystery and intrigue however, you'll have to apply to find out...

Washington State

Besides giving birth to grunge in the early-90s, the Evergreen State is an environmentally-friendly region that serves as an intersection between Nature and Technology. A rich development community is complemented by lush forests and snow-capped mountains.

Bungie's office is located in Bellevue, WA, which is a short drive from Redmond and Kirkland and just across the 520 or I-90 bridges from Seattle. The Puget Sound area, which includes the aforementioned "Eastside" communities and Seattle proper, has a plethora of nightlife and entertainment ranging from frequent concerts, superb dining and four major professional sports teams (Mariners, Seahawks, Sounders FC, and Storm).

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Localization Tester - French

Speak two languages? Have a passion for games equaled only by your keen eye for spotting grammatical errors and typos? Why not combine those skills while working on amazing things at Bungie?

We’re looking for testers to work with our localization team, scouring French versions of our game, web site, and mobile app, squashing bugs, and polishing the language until it shines.

Responsibilities

  • Test game software once localized text and audio have been implemented
  • Test localized versions of Bungie web site and mobile app 
  • Identify typographical, grammatical, and contextual errors in French text or audio
  • Report French text and audio bugs in a clear, concise, and effective manner

Required Skills

  • Fluency in French and proficiency in English
  • Excellent French spelling and grammar
  • Superior attention to detail
  • Strong prioritization, organizational, and communication skills
  • Ability to handle fast-paced deadlines and daily randomization
  • Willing to work over 40 hours per week when necessary to ensure the quality of the project

Nice-to-Have Skills

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

Localization Tester - German

Speak two languages? Have a passion for games equaled only by your keen eye for spotting grammatical errors and typos? Why not combine those skills while working on amazing things at Bungie?

We’re looking for testers to work with our localization team, scouring German versions of our game, web site, and mobile app, squashing bugs, and polishing the language until it shines.

Responsibilities

  • Test game software once localized text and audio have been implemented
  • Test localized versions of Bungie web site and mobile app 
  • Identify typographical, grammatical, and contextual errors in German text or audio
  • Report German text and audio bugs in a clear, concise, and effective manner

Required Skills

  • Fluency in German and proficiency in English
  • Excellent German spelling and grammar
  • Superior attention to detail
  • Strong prioritization, organizational, and communication skills
  • Ability to handle fast-paced deadlines and daily randomization
  • Willing to work over 40 hours per week when necessary to ensure the quality of the project

Nice-to-Have Skills

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

Localization Tester - Spanish

Speak two languages? Have a passion for games equaled only by your keen eye for spotting grammatical errors and typos? Why not combine those skills while working on amazing things at Bungie?

We’re looking for testers to work with our localization team, scouring Spanish versions of our game, web site, and mobile app, squashing bugs, and polishing the language until it shines.

Responsibilities

  • Test game software once localized text and audio have been implemented
  • Test localized versions of Bungie web site and mobile app 
  • Identify typographical, grammatical, and contextual errors in Spanish text or audio
  • Report Spanish text and audio bugs in a clear, concise, and effective manner

Required Skills

  • Fluency in Spanish and proficiency in English
  • Excellent Spanish spelling and grammar
  • Superior attention to detail
  • Strong prioritization, organizational, and communication skills
  • Ability to handle fast-paced deadlines and daily randomization
  • Willing to work over 40 hours per week when necessary to ensure the quality of the project

Nice-to-Have Skills

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

Localization Tester - Italian

Speak two languages? Have a passion for games equaled only by your keen eye for spotting grammatical errors and typos? Why not combine those skills while working on amazing things at Bungie?

We’re looking for testers to work with our localization team, scouring Italian versions of our game, web site, and mobile app, squashing bugs, and polishing the language until it shines.

Responsibilities

  • Test game software once localized text and audio have been implemented
  • Test localized versions of Bungie web site and mobile app 
  • Identify typographical, grammatical, and contextual errors in Italian text or audio
  • Report Italian text and audio bugs in a clear, concise, and effective manner

Required Skills

  • Fluency in Italian and proficiency in English
  • Excellent Italian spelling and grammar
  • Superior attention to detail
  • Strong prioritization, organizational, and communication skills
  • Ability to handle fast-paced deadlines and daily randomization
  • Willing to work over 40 hours per week when necessary to ensure the quality of the project

Nice-to-Have Skills

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

Localization Tester - Japanese

Speak two languages? Have a passion for games equaled only by your keen eye for spotting grammatical errors and typos? Why not combine those skills while working on amazing things at Bungie?

We’re looking for testers to work with our localization team, scouring Japanese versions of our game, web site, and mobile app, squashing bugs, and polishing the language until it shines.

Responsibilities

  • Test game software once localized text and audio have been implemented
  • Test localized versions of Bungie web site and mobile app 
  • Identify typographical, grammatical, and contextual errors in Japanese text or audio
  • Report Japanese text and audio bugs in a clear, concise, and effective manner

Required Skills

  • Fluency in Japanese and proficiency in English
  • Excellent Japanese spelling and grammar
  • Superior attention to detail
  • Strong prioritization, organizational, and communication skills
  • Ability to handle fast-paced deadlines and daily randomization
  • Willing to work over 40 hours per week when necessary to ensure the quality of the project

Nice-to-Have Skills

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

Localization Editor - Italian

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.

Apply Now

Localization Editor - French

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

Required Skills

  • Native fluency in French and proficiency in English
  • Impeccable French 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 French writing in .doc/docx format sample 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.

Apply Now

Localization Editor - German

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

Required Skills

  • Native fluency in German and proficiency in English
  • Impeccable German 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 German 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.

Apply Now

Localization Editor - Japanese

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

Required Skills

  • Native fluency in Japanese and proficiency in English
  • Impeccable Japanese 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 Japanese writing sample 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.

Apply Now

Localization Editor - Brazilian Portuguese

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

Required Skills

  • Native fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and proficiency in English
  • Impeccable Brazilian Portuguese 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 Brazilian Portuguese writing sample 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.

Apply Now

Localization Editor - Castilian Spanish

Bungie is looking for a skilled linguist to help us deliver a steady stream of awesome into the hands of players in Spain. We need an enthusiastic, detail-oriented, bilingual wordsmith who can not only help test our Spanish content, but also provide engaging translation and polish text until it truly shines. As a member of our internal localization team, you will be responsible for ensuring the technical accuracy of all Spanish translation as well as its stylistic consistency and overall quality. Do you have a way with words in Spanish? 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

  • Provide in-house English to Spanish translation for game, web, mobile, and marketing content
  • Proofread and edit externally translated game scripts and PR materials for Spain
  • Test game software after localized text and audio have been implemented
  • Report, triage, and resolve Spanish text and audio bugs
  • Maintain Spanish game glossary and style guides
  • Collaborate with external translators

Required Skills

  • Native fluency in Spanish and proficiency in English
  • Impeccable Spanish 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 Spanish 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.

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Gameplay Capture Artist

As a Gameplay Capture Artist, you’ll work with the Visual Design, Marketing, and Video Production teams to build, test, and record gameplay moments. Your mission will be to show off the world of Destiny to its full potential and help us to shoot the next generation of Destiny gameplay videos. Informed by Game Design, Publishing, and Bungie’s knowledge-base, you’ll wield the camera on the virtual set of engaging and information-laced videos.

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

You are:
  • Experienced: You’ve been capturing gameplay and producing quantifiably engaging video for a few years.
  • Passionate: Gaming is more than a hobby, it’s a passion. You care about story as well as shooting aliens in the face.

Responsibilities
  • Capture and produce live footage in a fast-paced, teamwork-based work (and game) environment.
  • Work in a cross-functional team to learn the ins-and-outs of new content.
  • Present new game features and mechanics to players from a studied perspective.

Required Skills
  • Experience capturing footage from games (Marketing for AAA titles a plus).
  • Ability to work well and thrive in a team environment.
  • Solid organization and multi-tasking skills.
  • Enthusiasm and passion for learning and growing skill set.
  • Striving for constant improvement and growth.
  • Ability to take direction and follow through to task completion.
  • Quickly learn new functionality and feature sets as they come online.
  • Comprehend and utilize the functionality of the entire tool set.
    • Operate and leverage test tools to enable compelling captures.
    • Professional experience as a tester in games, 1+ years a plus.
  • An eye for visual quality and composition.

Please provide a link to your game capture reel with your application.
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Lead Assistant Editor

Bungie’s video production team creates compelling content intended to capture the heart and soul of our kick ass development team. We’re looking for an experienced and technical lead assistant video editor to join the team.

The Lead Assistant Editor will work with Producers, Post Supervisor and Editors to prep projects for post-production, which will include, but not limited to: coordinating game capture, syncing audio and video, overcutting replacement shots into edits, logging and organizing, editing selects reels of footage, encoding drafts and deliverables, as well as archiving projects and other day-to-day video production related tasks. The Lead Assistant Editor would also be responsible for some rough-cut editing as the position progressed. The candidate will be expected to have flexibility to work different shifts, including after-hours, weekends and some holidays.

If you enjoy a fun, fast paced creative environment and want to share your talents with a large audience, we look forward to hearing from you.  

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

Responsibilities

  • Assist the Editors and Post Supervisor with all content creation and asset management
  • Participate in quality control checks on incoming content as well as finished edits prior to delivery
  • Participate in planning meetings to support content creation

Required Skills

  • Extremely strong skills with Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Creative Suite (including Premiere and ideally After Effects)
  • Strong knowledge of all video formats, codecs and encoding
  • Solid understanding of Mac OS, navigation and file structure
  • Must be detail oriented with the ability to handle multiple projects concurrently
  • Great interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to operate under strict deadlines. Hours, not days! 
  • Be able to thrive in a high-pressure, demanding environment  

Nice to Have Skills

  • Background in production of daily and/or weekly television programming and/or behind the scenes features
  • Project Back-up and cataloguing using LTO tape
  • Experience using shared storage

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Lead Writer

Bungie seeks a storyteller who can infuse the world of Destiny with new ways to inspire players to continue their adventure, and provide them with a rich, accessible and compelling narrative content. 
 
The Lead Writer is responsible for developing and overseeing all written content for a specific project set in the Destiny universe. This position will collaborate with the Fiction Creative Lead to identify and fully utilize prime opportunities within established narrative goals to deliver the fiction necessary to enrich the Destiny experience.
 
Success as Lead Writer will rely on close collaboration with the leads from other content teams to establish and/or maintain technical and aesthetic guidelines, while driving the fiction and writing tasks through the full production cycle – from preproduction through completion. 
 
The Lead Writer will promote the work of the fiction team within the studio while building a fun and inspiring creative environment.  As this role requires interfacing with many other disciplines, an appreciation of these disciplines, as well as the ability to multi-task and the possession of strong interpersonal skills is a must.  
 
Responsibilities

  • Work with a team of writers to craft the stories within a single project of the Destiny universe
  • Oversee and contribute to all aspects of fictional written content, including cinematic scripts, mission dialogue, and investment fiction
  • Collaborate with Creative Lead to develop characters and stories to drive immersive player experiences
  • Collaborate with designers to provide fiction/writing support to new features and other design requests
  • Identify opportunities and push new avenues for the storytelling experience 
  • Collaborate with and inspire the development team to deliver on story goals
  • Ensure that fiction team deliverables are completed in accordance with challenging deadlines and production realities
  • Support an imaginative and fun work environment 
 
Required Skills

  • Minimum 4 years in-studio game industry experience and shipped AAA games
  • Exemplary story writing and verbal communication skills
  • Must be good with dialogue and action
  • Must be able to execute to firmly established guidelines for tone
  • Must be able to take direction well, yet own and drive tasks
  • Solid understanding of game production, design tool limitations and systems
  • Passion and desire to use fiction and writing and as a world-building tool  
  • Exceptional team player with the ability to collaborate towards achieving gameplay goals
  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, literature or other writing-intensive field
Apply Now

Narrative Designer

Have you nearly thrown your controller through your TV when you hear the same four lines of mission dialogue every time you die repeatedly in a difficult section of a game? Do you get excited when an encounter is over, wondering what narrative is going to unfold before the next gunfight? Do you have an embarrassing, secret obsession for radio plays? If so, we have the job for you! Bungie is looking for a passionate, creative, and hard-working Narrative Designer to help us tell the story of Destiny.
 
As a Narrative Designer, you will be responsible for implementing in-game narrative experiences. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of audiovisual storytelling in an interactive medium and a deep technical understanding of game scripting. You’ll be working closely with the Story Experience Director and Design Leads to implement systems and content to meet the needs of the narrative experience.
 
Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the Story Director and Design Leads to implement in-game narrative sequences using Bungie’s scripting language and tools.
  • Work with animators, FX-artists, designers, spec-ops, and level builders to integrate narrative scenes into the flow of the gameplay.
  • Work with Engineers to improve our scripting language/tools to suit the needs of the Story team.
  • Push the boundaries of the player experience through the use of a variety of story-telling channels.
  • Iterate with directors and leads to meet quality and story goals.
  • Implement narrative sequences where the player retains control, understanding and avoiding the pitfalls that brings.
 
Requirements

  • Minimum 3 years game industry experience or one, shipped AAA game which had significant narrative components.
  • Prior in-game scripting/design experience.
  • Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python/Lua.
  • Functional understanding of Max/Maya.
  • Strong content debugging skills.
  • A natural ear and eye for pacing and drama.
  • Good understanding of narrative storytelling.
  • Good communication skills.
  • 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.
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UX/UI Director

Bungie is seeking an experienced UX/UI director with impeccable design sensibilities, a solid technical background, and an unyielding drive to craft beautiful, world class UI systems. You will work with award-winning engineering, design, art, investment, and production teams to champion the best concepts, systems, and features. Your role will be to balance the needs of game interface and art against game design realities and goals. Come lead our talented UI team, as they finally and miraculously bring players and software into perfect, enduring harmony.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams to deliver innovative, user interfaces and experiences 
  • Drive the consistency of visual and logical architecture across all platforms
  • Be an advocate for players, seeking to understand what they are doing and why, and convert findings into insights that impact design
  • Create and work on solutions for new and established systems that factor design, tools, and technological capabilities
  • Conduct stakeholder meetings, interact with user research, usability studies and visual analysis 
  • Work with your team to develop interaction design concepts with user stories, site maps, prototypes and wireframes that illustrate user needs, site structure, flow, layout, and informational relationships

Required Skills

  • An engaging digital portfolio that includes: Gaming experience with console and PC platforms, production interface design, desktop or mobile applications, websites, and online community portals
  • A minimum of 6 years as a UX/UI lead, and/or ten years graphic design and UX/UI related experience
  • A bachelor’s degree in Communication design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Information Science, or related fields (master’s degree preferred) 
  • Experience playing games for fun, and the drive to pick their systems apart in order to identify industry UX/UI successes and areas for improvement

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Systems Design Team Development Lead

Development starts with talent. With the right people and some solid planning, goals and dreams can turn into great games. With the right leadership, the efforts of a talented and engaged team will lead to results that are worthy of our imaginations. Bungie seeks a development lead to build and nurture teams that will help us realize our fullest potential.
 
The Systems Design Team Development Lead is responsible for driving the delivery of teams that create experiences for the player – everything from Sandbox, Combatants, UI, and Investment. The goals and objectives for this new role will be defined by the System Design Team Director. The essential challenge is to lead the department as a whole. We need a development professional to build and maintain an effective, healthy team.
 
The responsibilities and expectations of this position include the following: 
 
Systems Design Team (SDT) Development Lead:
  • Hold the team accountable for defining their scope and vision for the work ahead
  • Ensure the team has the right structure and talent for success
    • Define team roles and project(s) on which they're working
    • Empower people to do their best work
    • Determine headcounts and budgets with the Business Leadership Team
  • Ensure each team is working well with other groups to deliver on their goals
    • Make sure the Sandbox, Combatants, UI and Investment leads are working well together and are invested in solving each other’s concerns
    • Hold the Systems Design Director accountable for a shared vision and execution between the SDT and the Creative Leads from other areas.
    • Solve problems, remove roadblocks, and drive change where necessary
  • Collaborate with Production to oversee the team efforts throughout all phases of production
    • Build a roadmap for Systems Design execution and innovation over multiple releases
    • Hold production accountable to build achievable schedules
    • Manage the team to deliver on agreed workflow and schedules
    • Define team priorities informed by the leads
  • Ensure proper risk management for the System Design Team on Destiny and investigate studio wide mitigation plans
  • Work with the team to develop and maintain studio facing communication to clearly articulate the Systems Design Teams goals
  • Champion the team. Be a positive inspiration to increase the quality of our games, team morale and the craftsmanship with which we execute
  • Manage, develop and provide mentorship for team members
    • Set clear objectives and goals for direct reports
    • Drive a fair evaluation for performance reviews for each member the team
    • Inspire, motivate and make sure mentorship exists for designers to understand best practices, processes and procedures pertaining to system design
  • Lead by example by embodying best practices and setting the highest bar for professionalism and healthy work ethic on the team
  • Work largely unsupervised and use independent judgment

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Senior Raid Activity Designer

Are you experienced in building challenging cooperative gameplay experiences? Do you have fond memories of the first time you killed Ragnaros? Can you build encounters that require planning, demand coordination, and reward execution? Do you understand how teams communicate in combat situations while solving complex puzzles and challenges? 
 
Bungie is seeking talented, passionate activity designers to build Raid experiences that will challenge players' thumbs, minds, and communication skills. 
 
As a Senior Raid Activity Designer you will work with Raid Encounter Designers, Artists, Engineers, and Producers to create memorable, bond-building encounters that players will scour YouTube to defeat. 
 
Responsibilities

  • Work with the Design Lead to shape the gameplay themes for a Raid
  • Develop cooperative gameplay mechanics that challenge players’ deductive abilities and decision-making processes  
  • Creatively drive quality in all facets of the Raid with support from Raid Encounter and Raid Associate designers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Required Skills

  • At least 5 years’ prior experience designing campaign/multiplayer levels or mods for action games and at least one shipped AAA title in a Senior Design role
  • Exceptional team player with strong communication skills
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • Willingness to take design direction when offered and the ability and motivation to work independently when it isn't
  • Strong, highly disciplined problem solving skills
  • Ability to maximize player experiences with constrained resources
  • Extensive understanding of puzzles that challenge both cognitive and thumbskill abilities in players  
  • Deep proficiency and skill playing first-person shooters
  • Expert understanding of and experience playing highly challenging, cooperative experiences
  • Max level character with significant end game Player versus Environment experience in a popular online game
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Combatant Designer

Are you looking for the challenge of creating great gameplay and player experiences?  Can you imagine bringing to life characters that react, respond, and adapt to player’s actions?  Do you relish the idea that combat encounters can play out differently each time the player takes on the same mission? Do you believe AI-driven characters should rely on their senses, just like the player does? If so, you just might be the ideal candidate to become Bungie’s next Combatant Designer.

As a Combatant Designer, you will be responsible for taking the initial ideas for a combatant and converting them into fully-realized behaviors in the game. Combatant Designers are tasked with writing all of the scripts that will handle the behavior structure for the combatants.  You will balance combatant strength against player weapons and difficulty levels, and then working closely with the World Designers to craft specific experiences for many of the moments in the game.

Responsibilities

  • Work with a team of Combatant Designers to convert initial concepts into final designs
  • Collaborate with Animators, 3D Artists, Engineers, Audio Designers, World Designers, Producers and Test to realize those designs
  • Write the behavior scripts for an assortment of combatants
  • Fine tune the data for combatants to get the challenge level right for a wide variety of situations
  • Evaluate combatants at a frame by frame level of detail to give Animators and Performance Designers feedback and direction for the experience of fighting each combatant

Required Skills

  • Intuitive understanding of what makes a combatant a memorable experience and what players are looking for when they fight them
  • Outstanding communication skills and a deep desire to work closely with other disciplines
  • Able to break down what is not working on a character and the ability to convert that knowledge into realistic methods to solve issues
  • Strong scripting or code background
  • Solid understanding of the game development process is a plus
  • Mission Design experience is a plus, especially how a Mission Designer converts a group of combatants into a fun and memorable encounter
  • A background in Animation is a plus
  • At the very least understanding anticipation, follow through, character and timing

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Gameplay Designer


Do you love the challenge of designing great gameplay? 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 Designer for Destiny.

As a Gameplay Designer, you will work closely with the entire Design Team designing, crafting, and implementing a robust sandbox of gameplay systems. You will collaborate with team members from other disciplines to drive the gameplay experience. You will contribute to the design processes to ensure your work is the very best it can possibly be.

Responsibilities

You will be part of a team of designers building a compelling second-to-second gameplay experience. You will:

  • Collaboratively design, implement and balance top notch gameplay systems. 
  • Make the second-to-second gameplay experience accessible to as many people as possible. 
  • Work with sound, effects and animation artists to make in-game cause and effect clear to players. 
  • Embrace the commitment of your team to achieving the well-understood goals that are in alignment with the creative direction of the game. 


Required Skills

  • Intuitive understanding of how second-to-second action games work and why people play them. 
  • Previous experience working as a systems/gameplay designer or similarly working on action centric titles.
  • Good understanding of game engines, technology and the game development process. 
  • Experience with many modes of online play. 
  • 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. 
  • Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
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Investment Activity Designer

Do you seek to understand how the complex interactions of player level, item level and activity level can combine to create an amazing or terrible player experience? Are you fascinated how activity rewards can drive or fail to drive player behavior? Do you appreciate how some games stealthily train players using "quests" while others seem to bludgeon players with words and education? Do you know how all of these things could be done better in Destiny? If you answered yes to 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 Investment Activity Designer.

An Investment Activity Designer crafts a complete character progression experience from carefully crafted components. You will work with Activity designers to create, arrange, and present everything from tutorials to endgame raids to players to best utilize that content. You will be an expert in bridging the disciplines of creating an awesome mission and creating an awesome character.

Responsibilities

  • Planning and building activity content with dedicated activity design teams
  • Planning and implementing activity rollout and scheduling
  • Utilizing user-research data to tune existing and future activity content

Required Skills

  • At least 3 years’ prior design experience and at least one shipped AAA action title 
  • 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
  • Ability to absorb and command broad and complex systems and content
  • Ability to communicate clearly and specifically
  • Outstanding organizational skills
  • Command of Microsoft Excel
  • Ability to work well under deadlines
  • Ability to work well in a team environment
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Mission Designer

Bungie is seeking a passionate, creative, and omnipotent designer to build story missions 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 Mission Designer at Bungie you will work with Designers, Producers, Artists, and Engineers to design our game worlds, develop engaging cooperative experiences, and create dynamic AI encounters and memorable moments 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 boss encounters, 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

Nice-to-have Skills

  • 3 years’ prior experience and one prior shipped AAA title preferred

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Systems World Designer

Bungie is seeking a passionate, creative, and omnipotent designer to build world activities 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 Systems World Designer at Bungie, you’ll be working with people from all disciplines to design and populate the world with dynamic and exciting encounters. You’ll need to evaluate flow, player progress and technical costs, all while polishing encounters for an exceptional and unique experience. You will partner with systems designers and lay out the experience desired, while designing and developing the content that brings our game worlds to life!

Required Skills

  • Experience creating levels, missions, or spaces for action or open-world games 
  • Strong problem solving skills, utilizing creative and innovative solutions
  • Strong understanding of game design mechanics, focusing on action and open-world gameplay 
  • Familiarity with languages such as C++, Lua, Python or proprietary scripting languages
  • History of developing optimized and efficient gameplay content
  • Desire to work as part of a large team, taking feedback and direction when offered, as well as the ability and motivation to work independently
  • Ability to clearly and concisely communicate ideas
  • An all-consuming desire to help Bungie create the best games in the known universe!

Nice-to-have Skills

  • Experience with systems design and/or development of procedural and systemic content
  • Strong 3D math skills and the ability to express 3D ideas in a 2D space
  • At least one prior shipped AAA title

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Raid Encounter Designer

Are you experienced in building challenging cooperative gameplay experiences? Could you draw the layout of Ulduar? Can you envision gameplay spaces that will require thoughtful movement in the kinetic sandbox of an action game? Do you understand how to use directional combatant pressure in your spaces and throttle your encounters to force players to cooperate and communicate?

Bungie is seeking talented, passionate encounter designers to build Raids that challenge players' thumbs, minds, and communication skills. 
 
As a Raid Encounter Designer you will work with Raid Activity Designers, Artists, Engineers, and Producers to create memorable, bond-building encounters that players will scour YouTube to defeat. 

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

  • Design compelling encounters featuring challenging enemies with unique abilities
  • Creatively support Raid Activity designers in building complex cooperative scenarios
  • Work with Environment Architects to create spaces that meet experience goals
 
Required Skills

  • At least 2 years’ prior experience designing campaign/multiplayer levels or mods for action games
  • Exceptional team player with strong communication skills
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • Willingness to take design direction when offered and the ability and motivation to work independently when it isn't
  • Strong, highly disciplined problem solving skills
  • Ability to maximize player experiences with constrained resources
  • Extensive understanding of spatial design in action gameplay
  • Deep proficiency and skill playing first-person shooters
  • Expert understanding of and experience playing highly challenging, cooperative experiences
  • Max level character with significant end game Player versus Environment experience in a popular online game
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Senior Environment Artist

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
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Senior Technical Artist

Bungie seeks a development professional who can straddle the fence between art and science with grace and style. The Senior Technical Artist will support a highly creative team in the creation and implementation of content using our proprietary development tools and workflows. We need an artist with strong technical knowledge that is capable of creating visually exciting and dynamic content.

Responsibilities

  • Creating highly technical art content
  • Acquire a deep understanding of our engine tools and technology and be able to explain how they work to content creators
  • Assist in the content creation process from designing tools to assisting artists with debugging problems
  • Display agility and perseverance in the face of chaos and uncertainty

Required Skills

  • Strong knowledge of DCC Packages (Max or Maya preferred)
  • Strong understanding of shaders and shader systems
  • Technical art background
  • 5+ years professional game development experience
  • Solid understanding of game creation processes and dependencies
  • Passion for computer games, pipelines, and scripting
  • Ability to adapt to new technologies
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex problems

Nice-to-have Skills 

  • Art, Design, or equivalent degree
  • Familiarity with programming or scripting (C#, C++, Max Script, Python, MEL)

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Senior 3d Prop Artist

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

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?

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 and 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 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
  • Good communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment
  • Passion and desire to create great games

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3D Hard Surface Artist

Bungie Studios is looking for skilled, talented individuals capable of taking a 2d concept and fully realizing it as an impeccably detailed 3d hard surface model such as a vehicles, weapons, or mechanical props. This is an amazing opportunity to work with world-class art talent to develop a visually-inspired AAA title.

Essential Functions

  • Translate concepts and reference material into next-gen hard surface game content like mechanical objects. 
  • Collaborate with art director, designers, programmers and animators on object specifications, functions, style, limitations, etc...
  • While building an object, incorporate technical expertise, artistic ability, an understanding of mechanisms, and a basic understanding of animation. 
  • Paint realistic and futuristic textures for multiple shader functions such as diffuse maps, height maps, specular masks, detail maps and reflection maps. 
  • Ensure that the high-quality bar established by the Art Director and Lead Hard Surface Artist is maintained. 

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Architectural/Industrial Design or equivalent having gained a strong sense of surface development, proportion, and mechanical functionality. 
  • Traditional model building a plus. 
  • Two or more years of proven experience creating inorganic objects in a feature film or game production environment. 
  • Sketching, drawing, painting and design skills desirable. 
  • Be fluent in 3D Max or Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush and/or mudbox. 
  • Experience creating high-poly models for normal ripping purposes. 
  • Good communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment.

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Environmental Sky Artist

Bungie is looking for talented individuals to help create awe-inspiring visuals for breath-taking gaming worlds. This is an amazing opportunity to work with world-class art talent to develop a visually-inspired AAA title. 

Responsibilities

  • Model and arrange non-playable environment geometry from simple mass-out to finished states
  • Create matte paintings to sell the expansive vistas
  • Control fog and atmosphere to tie all the elements together
  • Light spaces using proprietary lighting tools
  • Finish out environments with detail objects, decals, 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 
  • 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

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Environment Lighting Artist

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
  • Competent 3d modeling / texturing skills (ie. light fixtures / practical support for light sources)
  • 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 Skills

  • Experience with in-house game engines a plus
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Multiplayer Environment Artist

Any great shooter is enhanced by awe-inspiring environments where players can compete time and time again.  Multiplayer arenas are envisioned and built by artists who bring great looking visuals and great gameplay together.  Bungie is looking for fresh talent eager to join our team responsible for adding an unprecedented level of style and scale to our competitive worlds.

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

Responsibilities

  • Work with Leads to develop finished gameplay spaces from approved concept art
  • Take environment geometry from rough concepts to finished quality
  • Create and place detailed objects, decals, decorators, animated objects, and dynamic lights
  • UV map and paint custom textures
  • Light spaces using proprietary lighting tools
  • Collaborate with experienced artists and designers to create amazing looking environments that also serve as great encounter spaces
  • Troubleshoot environments to ensure they stay within frame rate, memory, and schedule

Required Skills

  • At least 3 years experience in the games industry working as an environment artist or level designer
  • Experience working with a game engine, building levels in 3D, and iterating on spaces for gameplay and visual quality
  • Good understanding of multiple aspects of 3D level creation including flow, engagement quality, pacing, composition, land marking, readability, and storytelling
  • Strong communication skills
  • Understanding of light, value, composition, color, staging and detail in environmental design
  • Good sense of scale and spatial awareness
  • 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
  • Professional experience working on a current generation title
  • A passion for games and creating environments

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • At least one prior shipped AAA title
  • Experience working on competitive multiplayer levels within the FPS genre

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Environment Artist

If you are an artist that imagines undiscovered horizons wrought from pixels and code, the opportunity to build better worlds awaits. 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
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3D Character Artist

Can you turn a sketch of a pauldron and an ornate frock into a low-poly 3D masterpiece? Do you work out complicated UV unwrapping problems and paint textures in your sleep? Bungie is looking for skilled, talented individuals capable of taking a 2D concept and fully realizing it as an impeccably detailed 3D character model. 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 models of characters and creatures.
  • Collaborate with art director, designers, programmers and animators on character specifications, movement, style, limitations, etc.
  • Paint realistic and futuristic textures for multiple shader functions such as diffuse maps, height maps, specular masks, detail maps, displacement maps and reflection maps.
  • Ensure that the high-quality bar established by the Art Director and Lead Character Artist is maintained.

Required Skills

  • University or equivalent art-related degree focusing on traditional skills such as sketching, illustration, and painting.
  • Two or more years of professional game industry experience.
  • At least one shipped title as 3D character artist.
  • A portfolio or demo reel that demonstrates an exceptional understanding of human anatomy and a creative imagination with a keen eye towards form, shape, structure, and silhouette in regards to modeling.
  • Be fluent in 3D Max or Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush and/or Mudbox.
  • Experience creating high-poly models for normal ripping purposes.
  • Good communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment.
  • Passion and desire to create great games.
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Shader FX Artist

Do you find yourself tinkering with UV transforms, Fresnel settings, and alpha thresholds to build the perfect spell-casting visuals? Do you have an innate desire to turn that video-game badguy into stone…or gold…or multi-dimensional diamond? Have you ever wondered how that photo ref of an orange-peel can be leveraged to give that forcefield a little extra spice?

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

Responsibilities

  • Build shaders and creatively manipulate supporting meshes and textures to create visual effects that enhance the overall composition
  • Work with the art lead to create content to inform, communicate, and enhance the gameplay experience, while remaining grounded in established art-direction and fiction
  • Communicate and collaborate with other art disciplines (particle FX, lighting, animation, hard-surface) to understand how all the content-types will be aggregated together to make that glorious unified visual effect
  • Find opportunities to leverage existing content as groundwork for new content, and how you can manipulate existing content to make it even better

Required Skills

  • Have extensive experience with professional node-based shader editor
  • Ability to make strong and pleasing artistic statements by manipulating the underlying math
  • Familiarity with Max and/or Maya for modeling and UV manipulation
  • Experience working with designers to define design needs, and marrying those requirements with art goals
  • Have a discerning and artistic eye for visual FX: know when to make it sizzle and when to have a refined, light touch
  • Be able to break down any visual effect concept into component content-types (particle FX, shader FX, mesh FX, animation, lighting, etc.) and choose the right tools for the right job
  • Ability to understand the dynamics of the engine in order to build memory-efficient and perf-friendly content
  • Give constructive feedback on development of art pipeline and tools

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Concept Artist

Bungie is looking for an exceptional concept artist who will work closely with the Art Director and Art Leads to establish the style and feel for the game universe in exciting new Bungie titles. You will also work closely with the production art team to help them envision what the finished results can be for the in-game content they are creating. As the ideal candidate, you should amaze us with creative designs and artwork and have the capability to inspire greatness in those around you. 

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with the Art Director and other concept artists to produce quality designs that define and expand the look of the game. 
  • Create concept art for use by production artists to create their game content. 
  • Create thumbnails, sketches, model sheets and production paintings within deadline. 
  • Ensure that concept art is consistent with defined visual style for the game. 
  • Contribute original visual design ideas throughout pre-production and production. 
  • Create additional illustrated concepts for marketing and PR needs. 

Required Skills

  • Ability to quickly iterate concepts given input from the Art Director. 
  • Professional attitude and an ability to take constructive criticism. 
  • An exceptional understanding of mood, lighting and architecture with a keen eye towards form, shape, structure, and silhouette in regards to illustration and design.
  • Superior eye for light, value, composition, color, staging and detail in environmental design. 
  • Strong foundation in the traditional arts, including, but not limited to, figure drawing, landscape painting, and illustration. 
  • The ability to carry an idea from the conceptual phase to the finished illustration and an understanding of translating these ideas to real-time game content. 
  • Self-driven, good communicator and a great team-player. 
  • A passion for games. 

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Strong understanding of character proportion and costume design. 
  • Experience with Photoshop, Painter. 3D software knowledge not an absolute requirement. 
  • AA/BFA preferred, or at least demonstrates through portfolio an industry standard level of art. 

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Technical Designer in Animation

Have you ever gotten in a fist fight over the relative merits of a canned combatant performance versus a dynamic conditional performance? Do you see everyday traffic as a complex series of object states that trigger new behaviors from each vehicle and its relations to the next closest? Have you ever found yourself blaming a loss in Street Fighter on an unfair frame count or evangelizing the strengths of a proper sequence of chained moves? Have you ever experimented in Maya to see just how flexible a dead body ought to be when flying through the air? Do you find yourself analyzing how a building collapses and what makes it feel satisfying? If you’ve answered yes to many of these, we have the job for you! Bungie is looking for a passionate, creative and hard-working Technical Designer specializing in Spectacle moments for our next project.

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

Responsibilities

As a Technical Designer at Bungie, you will work with the Design, Animation and Programming teams to develop visual storytelling elements. You will be responsible for implementing content that meets the requirements of the design vision, allows the artists to create visual spectacle, and works efficiently in the game engine. You will also be expected to work with engineering teams to improve workflow issues, spec out new tools, and find creative solutions to hard problems.

Required Skills

  • The desire to achieve personal excellence as part of an outstanding team
  • General understanding of how different systems interact and how to bring them together to build complex objects
  • An eye for criticizing and improving the aesthetic quality of complex in-game objects
  • Good design instincts and an understanding of how to build compelling experiences
  • 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
  • Prior experience solving technical problems for games
  • Functional understanding of Max\Maya
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Python scripting and/or C# programming experience is a huge plus
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Organizational Effectiveness Director

Bungie is looking for an experienced Senior Organizational Effectiveness professional to join our team. This position would help plan, implement and lead Bungie University and internal training programs. The ideal candidate will be self-directed, motivated and comfortable working in an extremely fast-paced environment with the ability to quickly understand impacts and determine the right approach for stakeholder engagement, training and communication. This role consists of diverse projects that require different approaches based on the audience, size, complexity and nature of the change. It is important that the candidate can leverage their experience and versatility to implement change at Bungie. Key outcomes include strong employee adoption of new systems, measurable metrics around employee proficiency and strong leadership engagement. This person must specialize in analyzing the impacts of change within the organization and delivering communication, learning, organization, and performance solutions to enable the change. 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  • Independently create communications and training content and advise team members when support is required 
  • Manage and execute communications and training efforts
  • Determine potential impact to the organization resulting from projects, enhancements, and production support 
  • Identify opportunities for process improvement and provide recommendations to process owners leveraging methodology
  • Apply project lifecycle methodology across assigned processes and systems and encourage its consistent application among team members 
  • Work with team to understand organizational readiness impacts and requirements for projects and system enhancements. Estimate level of effort and document scope 
  • Tailor processes for ongoing learning and measurement
  • Independently complete org readiness documentation and work with the business to gain approval. Review other team members' documentation and provide feedback
  • Participate in resource and budget planning efforts for assigned organizational readiness tasks
  • Identify opportunities to align departmental processes to changing business conditions
  • Builds effective relationships with the other members of their team

Key Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of progressive change management experience in a broad-based project/program environment is required
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience developing training and communications is required
  • Demonstrated ability planning training initiatives 
  • Understanding of different training methods and their benefits and limitations
  • Experience partnering with vendors to develop video training content and developing job aids
  • Ability to rapidly learn new system functionality and conduct impact analysis 
  • Exceptional facilitation skills
  • Comfortable leading workshops
  • Thrives in ambiguous work environment and maintains a high degree of flexibility
  • Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks and assignments simultaneously
  • Strong/advanced written, interpersonal and communication skills
  • Experience presenting to executives is required
  • Strong knowledge of Organizational Readiness principles
  • Advanced analytical, measurement, and problem-solving skills 
  • Advanced knowledge of MS Office applications and other productivity tools
  • Working knowledge of the data interface between production, development, and quality assurance (QA) systems
  • Must be responsive and deadline-oriented 
  • Solid training delivery skills
  • Ability to create medium-complexity process flow diagrams 
  • Advanced knowledge of relevant (in practice) business processes

Education

  • Bachelor's degree required; Master’s degree preferred

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IT Engineer

Plan, deploy, and maintain complex environments as Bungie's Senior IT Engineer.  We're looking for candidates who can solve bizarre problems and tackle unusual technology related requests by employing the deadly art of Datacenter-fu.

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

Essential functions 

  • 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
 
At least 2 years experience in supporting the following:

  • Experience managing mid to large projects over weeks/months 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
  • Experience working 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
  • Network maintenance and support.  Experienced on Cisco IOS with VLANs, spanning-tree, and dynamic routing protocols.  Setting up syslog alerts, SLB, VRRP, ACLs.  Able to quickly learn new vendor OS's
  • Firewalls and proxies.  Able to configure ISA, Juniper, and Cisco firewalls
  • Backup infrastructure.  In-depth experience with backup technologies.  Experienced with 3rd party backup vendors such as BackupExec or CommVault 
  • Microsoft Windows troubleshooting.  Experienced resolving issues related to hardware or application faults.  Able to use built-in and 3rd party tools to identify bottlenecks and faults
  • Storage experience, SAN/NAS configuration and implementation

Technical proficiency in:

  • SQL
  • Exchange
  • Active Directory 
  • Cisco routers and switches
  • IIS
  • Server monitoring
  • VPN and Firewall setup
  • Backup and recoveries
 
Other valued qualifications:

  • Good communication and documentation skills
  • Experience in speccing and implementing wan and alternate backhaul technologies (fiber, microwave, satellite)
  • Electronic security system deployment and configuration (cardkey, smartcard auth)
  • VOIP technology experience, including teleconferencing

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IT Support/Server Specialist

In our quest for world domination, Bungie is looking for an experienced IT support specialist.  You will be supporting the infrastructure and people working on our world class games.  Bungie's IT shop is a small crew and day to day duties and challenges are varied, from supporting creative staff with high end applications to maintaining the server and technical infrastructure.  The perfect candidate has strong troubleshooting skills, a good team attitude, exceptional customer service skills and a hunger for learning new things.  We often tread the razors edge on new technology adoption so adaptability and a strong desire to research, investigate and roll out new technologies is a must.

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

Responsibilities  

  • Install server and Workstation Operating Systems according to documented procedures and/or customer specific needs
  • Maintaining images of operating systems 
  • Troubleshoot computer and basic networking issues 
  • Create new users and assign permissions in Active Directory 
  • Rack and install server and network hardware
  • Understand the infrastructure cabling topology of the server labs, run/punch down network cabling from switches or patch panels to desks, servers, etc...
  • Receive and ship inventory on an as needed basis
  • Work with our server monitoring toolset to monitor for new tasks or problems
  • Provide technical support to peers during problem determination and resolution
  • Assist with equipment installation/relocation during team reorganizations and expansions
  • Work with peers to improve the infrastructure for patch management, OS and software deployment
  • Troubleshooting Xbox development hardware and support equipment

Required Skills

  • College Degree in an IT associated field of study preferred but will consider applicants with equivalent work-related experience with a minimum educational requirement of a H.S. Diploma or GED equivalent
  • Ability to work in a multiplatform hardware environment (PC's, MAC’s, Server, RAID, IOS, and Android, very little Linux)
  • Proficient in installation and administration of operating systems, including Windows 7, Windows 8.X, Server 2008 R2, Windows 2012, Mac OS
  • Experience with IP Networking (Subnetting, VLANS, routing)
  • Proficiency in software applications and protocols including MS Office, Mac Office, SSH, FTP, Anti-Virus, etc.  
  • Must be self-motivated, team player, and able to immediately contribute to a fast paced, deadline intensive environment
  • Must be able to learn quickly in a highly technical fast paced environment
  • Excellent organizational, time management, project management, and service delivery skills are required
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills are required
  • Experience in a role involving direct customer contact (internal and external customers)
  • Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 pounds as needed

Valued Skills

  • Some experience with AV systems (projectors, HD televisions, audio receivers etc…) 
  • Ability to take ownership of projects 
  • Self-starter and ability to work without supervision 
  • Ability to work well within a team
  • Server HW troubleshooting, and experience in a high availability datacenter style environment
  • Experience in server disk array management and troubleshooting
  • Experience with batch scripting for enterprise management

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Datacenter Operations Specialist

We’re building a team of datacenter operations professionals who will be responsible for keeping their finger on the pulse of Destiny and Bungie.net 24/7 with a focus on monitoring the overall health of our back-end services. Ideal candidates will be technically minded, organized, proactive, and be able to execute tasks with military-grade precision. Candidates should be comfortable with debug logs and spending most of their time looking at non-gameplay elements of games. 

This is a shifted position: Candidates must be open to working night and/or graveyard shifts.

Responsibilities

  • Perform alert-based investigation and troubleshooting
  • Engage and coordinate Engineering and Networking teams to provide critical information to enable break/fix solutions for in-game issues
  • Gather game and service metrics to add to investigations and assist in root cause analysis
  • Provide test support for current and new game elements including content, and game functionality testing
  • Create clear documentation and troubleshooting runbooks for common alert types
  • Monitor shared inbox and prioritize escalations from multiple teams
  • Contribute to ongoing development efforts through playtesting, special projects and/or providing technical solutions to problems

Required Skills

  • 2+ years experience in a datacenter operations center environment or relevant software development equivalent
  • 2+ years experience testing software, hardware, services or relevant operations equivalent
  • Experience troubleshooting diverse scenarios involving server applications (Windows), SQL databases, and networking (must be server-side, not desktop)
  • Experience testing code-driven, game and technical service elements
  • Strong prioritization, organization,  and communication skills
  • Born problem solver, with strong bug-writing and investigative abilities
  • Ability to complete time sensitive tasks and handle daily randomization under pressure
  • Able to investigate and drive issues to resolution with minimal supervision
  • Willing to work over 40 hours per week when necessary to ensure the quality of the project

Valued Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in IT or related field of study or equivalent operations/test experience
  • Ability to analyze complex debug logs as a primary method of investigation
  • Desire to enhance productivity through scripting and automation
  • Experience working on a shipped console title
  • Experience testing on multiple platforms (PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC)
  • Experience testing games with server-based components
  • Experience running an operations team in a lead or shift-lead capacity
  • Proven ability to think outside the box and propose unusual or non-standard solutions to problems

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Engineering Lead

Bungie is recruiting a relentless code warrior, devoted to the pursuit of excellence in programming and furthering our ongoing quest for world domination. Do you enjoy solving cross-team, collaborative problems?  Have you successfully applied these skills to ship a AAA game?  Bring your drive and fuse it with our talented team; together we shall quake lands underfoot.

As an engineering lead at Bungie, you will work closely with team leads and production to plan and execute on our vision of creating the best and most technically impressive games in the world.

Required Skills

  • Professional industry experience writing robust, efficient and maintainable C/C++ code
  • Proven ability to independently design, architect and maintain large code systems 
  • Experience leading a team of engineers through planning, developing, and shipping a AAA title
  • Good understanding of computer hardware, algorithms, performance and optimization
  • Passionate about technology in general and PC platform integration specifically
  • High quality standards for personal code
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Nice-to-have Experience

  • Working with PC platform partners
  • Experience with multi-platform code
  • Familiarity with game security techniques

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Online Engineer (All Levels)

Do you love stat tracking, tech trees, and power progression systems in games? Do you sit up late at night thinking of new achievements? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to build a game economy? Do you have mad coding skills and a deep love of video games? Then come build a better “ding” experience and help Bungie in our quest for world domination.

Essential Functions

  • Learn, love, and extend our investment framework
  • Work closely with engineers from multiple teams and disciplines to build deep and robust features
  • Tirelessly sweat alongside designers to make their feature dreams come to life

Required Skills

  • Demonstrated proficiency writing robust, efficient and maintainable C/C++ code
  • Passion for playing and developing exceptional online console games
  • Solid communication skills
  • 4 year degree in computer science or math, or equivalent experience

Nice-to-have Skills

  • Experience with a dynamic scripting language (LUA, Python)
  • C# or Java experience
  • Experience working in a team environment
  • Previous console experience

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Tools Engineer (Lead)

At Bungie, we have a large team of artists and designers creating the content for our games, and they have correspondingly high expectations of the tools they use every day to do this. The Content Tools team is passionate about building high quality, cutting-edge software and workflows for them. This includes world editors, shader graphs, object authoring, and all that’s needed to bring content from a creative person’s head into the game.

You will collaborate closely with teammates from all over the studio to bring ideas to life. From building user interfaces to manipulating 3D meshes to wrangling data formats, this position involves a breadth of technology and feature areas almost unheard of elsewhere in software development.

As an engineering lead at Bungie, you will work closely with team leads and production to plan and execute on our vision of creating the best and most technically impressive games in the world.

We’re looking for an awesome, versatile candidate who loves to build things. Our platform is primarily C# on WPF interacting with our game engine in C++, supported by a pile of technologies and patterns such as the Reactive Extensions, MVVM, DirectX, IoC, async/await, and many proprietary bleeding-edge in-house systems. If you’re an expert in any of these buzzwords, great! Regardless, we expect that you are a master of the technologies in your own experience, and that this has prepared you to learn, adapt, and grok what we are doing, and drive us to the next level.

Required Skills

  • Programming master, with the experience to back it up
  • Experience leading and mentoring small teams of engineers
  • Ability to lead complex and intertwined projects
  • Strong architectural skills; experienced with building and maintaining large codebases
  • Strong cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration skills
  • Enthusiastic about working with designers and artists
  • Strong personal time-management skills; capable of working in an open environment with regular interruptions for customer service needs

Nice-to-have Skills 

  • Previous game development experience
  • Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent experience

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Game Server Tools Engineer (Associate to Senior)

Keeping an online game running smoothly takes a lot a management behind the scenes, and great tools help us do it right the first time. If you're excited to write code that lets us patch the game without downtime, grant epic loot to the winner of a charity auction, and graph population trends, then this is the spot for you.  You’ll work closely with our service & client engineering teams, network operations, and datacenter operations teams to design and implement tooling to improve multiple workflows.  Our Server Tools Engineers work in C# writing services and ASP.NET websites. A solid understanding of authorization and access control patterns is also useful.

Required Skills

  • Solid programming skills in C# including data access
  • Working understanding of relational databases and T-SQL
  • Great software design habits for clean, modular code
  • Strong cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration skills
  • Passion for delivering a great end-user game experience

Nice-to-have Skills

  • Previous game development experience
  • Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent experience

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Workflow Tools Engineer

The stability and health of the studio rests on your shoulders! You and your comrades in arms will be designing and building systems to proactively keep the studio stable, working optimally, and lowering the complexity level for executing and authoring automation. Your efforts will be initially focused on the following core areas:
  • Optimizing the services for delivering multi-platform builds to the studio and evolving the user interface experience. 
  • Contributing to our internal cloud systems and client-facing tools for helping designers, testers, and programmers work to their full potential.
  • Developing applications for authoring and debugging automation against our game’s various pipelines.

Required Skills

  • C# socket and service development, with proficiency in Windows Communication Foundation.
  • The ability to design and optimize databases using Transact-SQL. 
  • Practical knowledge of XAML and its common design patterns (MVVM, MVVMP), for WPF and Silverlight development.
  • Knowledge of compression algorithms, and experience working within distributed, multithreaded environments.
  • C++ socket and service development on the PC and console platforms.
  • Experience with popular testing frameworks (i.e. NUnit).
  • A passion for building extensible, testable code, with an understanding of common design patterns that demonstrate this.
  • Strong cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration skills.
  • The discipline to get to the root cause of an issue, and build systems with complete transparency into their operations.
  • The ability to create simple, intuitive, customer centric interfaces.

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience with any of the following technologies: ASP .NET Web API services, cloud computing services, and big data technologies.

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PvP Engineer (All Levels)

Bungie requires the skills and services of a PvP Engineer to help us design and build addictive competitive shooter experiences.
 
As a PvP Engineer at Bungie, you will write systems to enable designers to build and iterate compelling multiplayer experiences. You will playtest prototypes, shaping and honing new experiences in collaboration with other engineers and content creators. You will work closely with network engineers on optimizing gameplay replication, with matchmaking engineers on crafting the online user experience, and with activities engineers on improving the designer tool ecosystem. Your work will be highly visible, directly translating into unique and compelling competitive experiences. Most importantly, you will work with a fun, dedicated, driven and energetic team devoted to creating the best and most technically-impressive games in the world.
 
Required Skills
  • One of the following:
    • Professional experience programming in the game industry and proven ability to independently design and maintain large software systems
    • Prior game programming experience via professional, academic, personal or intern projects
  • Strong applied C++ programming experience
  • Good communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Passion for great competitive multiplayer games
  • Ability to translate feature requests into robust and extensible systems that customers love
  • Strong game design sensibilities
  • 4 year degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or a related field
 
Nice-to-have Skills 
  • Fluent communication skills with non-engineers
  • Strong math background (vector geometry, linear algebra, etc.)
  • Console game development experience
  • Experience working on large teams
 

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Engine Programmer (Entry Level)

Are you interested in how computers model reality? Do you believe the model can be more real, the representations more expressive, the quantities larger, the quanta smaller and the illusion more complete? Strive for your goals with Bungie, and even if you don't succeed you'll have the satisfaction of sending your enemies into the sun with a giant slingshot.
 
As an Associate Engine Programmer at Bungie, you'll design and build the core frameworks that bring the game to life -- the understanding of the world, the descriptions of entities and behaviors, the scheduling of work and the inspection tools to make it all understandable. Your customers will be designers, artists and feature engineers striving to build the best and most technically impressive games in the world.
 
Required Skills

  • Prior game programming experience via professional, academic, personal or intern projects
  • 4 year degree in computer science, electrical engineering, applied mathematics or related fields or equivalent experience
  • Strong working knowledge of C/C++
  • Strong math background (vector geometry, linear algebra, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of computational fundamentals
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Passion for games and real-time simulation
 
Nice-to-have Skills  
      
  • Experience with a commercial game engine
  • Experience with real-time audio
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Database Development Engineer

Do you live and breathe databases? Love to work on database technologies that are at the heart of a user's experience? Do you want to build a data tier composed of hundreds of TBs which can scale to meet the demands of a game launch? We're seeking a database engineer to join our server engineering team, responsible for creating and maintaining database systems to purr like a well-tuned racecar. 
 
Fun Things You Get To Do 

  • Work with the latest database technologies on cutting-edge hardware. 
  • Help design, operate and maintain a data tier which will scale to meet the demands of millions of concurrent users.
  • Work with our dev/test teams to ensure the database design can scale to meet the demands of the game. 
  • Develop and design data systems for future versions of our game. 
  • Help design and build new frameworks that support the administration/operational aspects of the database tier of the game.
 
Required Skills 

  • 5-7+ years of experience with MS SQL Server (SQL 2012+ experience required). Familiarity with other database systems and/or technologies (MySQL, Hadoop, etc…) is a big plus. 
  • Ability to write and maintain automation used to manage production database deployments. 
  • Experience operating, administering and maintaining DBMS in mission-critical production environments. 
  • Expert knowledge of SQL internals, monitoring and performance tuning. 
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills including the ability to debug the entire stack (Software/OS/Hardware). 
  • Strong familiarity with Windows Server platforms. Experience with Linux is a plus. 
  • Working knowledge of modern server and storage technologies as well as experience designing/operating hardware configurations for database deployments at scale.
  • Solid understanding and hands on experience implementing and operating high availability and disaster recovery technologies. 
  • Development experience in C# and/or other .NET languages.
  • Strong development experience with TSQL and PowerShell (or equivalent script languages).
  • Ability to adapt to a fast paced environment with shifting requirements. 
  • Willingness and ability to field escalations in an on-call fashion (as required by business needs) and do occasional late-night systems maintenance.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Proven track record of working well with other teams, such as QA, Production, Operations, etc.

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Game Service Engineer (Experienced)

Peek behind the curtain of the universe of Destiny and you will find a truly impressive collection of 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 something worthy of Destiny is always challenging, so we're looking for someone with talent and passion to help breathe life into our creation.

As an Experienced Game Service Engineer, you will do just that. You will work with game designers and other engineers to determine not only what to build but how to build it. And then you'll craft it, run it, and profit. We're a small team without strict lines, so you'll be wearing a lot of hats: architect, developer, performance engineer, play tester... whatever it takes to get the job done.

Be a part of creating Destiny. Become legend. 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#, C++, Java, or another OO language
  • 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, or equivalent experience
  • A burning desire to make the most awesome game ever

Nice-to-have Skills

  • Professional experience with .Net 4.5
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Infrastructure/Platform Engineer

Bungie is seeking a relentless code warrior, devoted to the pursuit of programming excellence and furthering our ongoing quest for world domination. When you play games do you find yourself wondering how the code functions under the hood? Why that load took so long? Are you obsessed with evaluating your programs for efficiency and performance? Do you dream in x64 assembly and write poems in VMX. Are you the person that others come to when they can’t debug their code? 

Bring your thirst for knowledge, your HW expertise and your ability to draw blood from stones and fuse it with our talented team; together we shall forge a dread Engine that will quake lands (of many architectures) underfoot. 

As a Platform Engineer at Bungie, you will participate in the design of future generations of our engine technology. You will learn our engine’s capabilities and then help us expand them by building a structure and framework that enables new heights of flexibility and performance. Most importantly you will work with an exciting and energetic team devoted to creating the best and most technically impressive games in the world.

Required Skills

  • Good working knowledge of C/C++ 
  • Good understanding of computer hardware, algorithms, performance and optimization
  • Smart, driven and adaptable
  • Passionate about technology in general and game engine programming specifically
  • Excited to tackle new and varied challenges
  • High quality standards for personal code

Nice-to-have Skills

  • Professional experience programming in the game industry
  • Professional C/C++ coding experience
  • Experience working with low-level infrastructure or game engine code
  • Expertise in a specialist engine area (such as physics, I/O or graphics)
  • Experience working with modern console architecture and multi-platform code
  • History of hobbyist game engine programming, mod or bot work

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Activities Engineer (All Levels)

Bungie seeks a scrappy, brilliant programmer to weld .50 caliber machine guns onto the back of our toy trucks, develop a new shovel for building bullet proof sandcastles, and to make sure it all works under a high-latency wireless connection with radio interference. If you can easily hold complex, self-consistent alternate realities in your head and transcribe them into code, then we want to hear from you.

As a Activities Engineer/Gameplay Programmer at Bungie, you will play an integral role in bridging the last mile technology between game design, art and our engine. Your work will play a key role as we break new ground in seamless, persistent, networked game simulation. Most importantly, you will work with a fun, dedicated, driven and energetic team devoted to creating the best and most technically impressive games in the world.

Required Skills

  • Professional experience programming in the game industry and proven ability to independently design and maintain large software systems OR
  • Prior game programming experience via professional, academic, personal or intern projects
  • Experience creating data driven game play and game simulation systems
  • Strong applied C++ programming experience
  • Proven ability to independently design and maintain complex software systems
  • Excellent interdisciplinary communication skills
  • Ability to translate feature requests into robust and extensible customer systems
  • Strong math background (vector geometry, linear algebra, etc.)
  • 4 year degree in computer science, applied mathematics or related fields
  • Strong game design sensibilities
  • Passion for great games, great technology and gameplay programming
  • Experience working on a team and excellent communication skills

Nice-to-have Skills
        
  • Experience with Gameplay Networking code
  • Next generation console/device experience
  • Experience as a senior engineer on a large team
  • Embraces emergent phenomenon
  • Fluent in both Designer and Artist

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Engine Programmer (Experienced)

Engine Programmer (Experienced)
Bungie seeks a skilled veteran, steeped in the arts of war and programming, to further our quest for world domination. Are you passionate about the process of game development? Do you believe better systems and better tools enable the creation of better games? Do you have “design by contract” tattooed inside your upper lip? Combine your mechanical mastery with our talented team; united we will build an Engine to both create great games and also power the biggest slingshot in human history.

Essential Functions
As a senior engineer at Bungie, you will play a leadership role in the design of future generations of our engine technology. You will build frameworks that enable our engineering team to break new ground in flexibility, inspectability, rapid iteration, multithreading and performance. Most importantly you will work with an exciting and energetic team devoted to creating the best and most technically impressive games in the world.
 
Desired Qualifications
  • Professional experience programming in the game industry (3+ years). 
  • Experience building and extending framework-level game systems.
  • Strong working knowledge of C/C++. 
  • Proven ability to independently design and maintain large software systems. 
  • Top-to-bottom understanding of the game development process in a modern engine.
  • Experience working on a team and excellent communication skills. 
  • Passion for great games and great technology. 
 
Nice-to-Have
  • Experience as a senior engineer on a large team. 
  • Experience working with modern console architecture. 
  • A love of close quarters combat.


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Multiplayer/Social Systems Engineer

Do you love stat tracking, tech trees, and power progression systems in games? Do you sit up late at night thinking of new achievements? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to build a game economy? Do you have mad coding skills and a deep love of video games? Then come build a better “ding” experience and help Bungie in our quest for World Domination.

Essential Functions

  • Learn, love, and extend our investment framework 
  • Work closely with engineers from multiple teams and disciplines to build deep and robust features 
  • Tirelessly sweat alongside designers to make their feature dreams come to life

Required Qualifications

  • Good communication skills 
  • Solid working knowledge of and professional experience coding C/C++ 
  • Passion for playing and developing exceptional online console games 
  • A BS in computer science or math, or equivalent experience

Nice-to-have Skills

  • Experience working in a team environment 
  • Previous console experience 
  • Experience with a dynamic scripting language (LUA, Python) 
  • C# or Java experience
 
 

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Graphics Programmer (Senior or Lead)

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

  • Proven record of managing/leading multiple people in a technical role
  • PS3 SPU programming/porting experience
  • Next GEN (Orbis/Durango/etc...) experience
  • General low level optimization experience 
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Systems Engineer (Experienced)

It’s launch night. In 15 minutes, several million frenetic customers are going to race home from their game store’s midnight festivities and log on to your servers all at once. But that’s ok -- you’re prepared. You’re calm. And you have a wall of monitors around you tracking the health of nearly a hundred machines and the better part of a petabyte of storage. You’re about to launch a Bungie game.

Bungie is looking for an experienced systems engineer to keep our server software purring on our datacenter servers (we’re a Windows shop). Responsibilities include configuring dashboard apps for centralized monitoring and custom app management, automating and implementing OS deploys and patches in production and lab environments, and managing the typical alphabet soup of DNS, DHCP, GPO, AD, PKI and more.

A Systems Engineer also fields escalations from our Operations Center when they notice a hiccup in the system, to diagnose and respond to the incident.

Required Skills


  • Prior experience working on user-facing production servers in a high-availability environment
  • Deep understanding of Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory, Performance counters, etc.
  • Understanding of TCP/IP, Windows networking, etc.
  • Willingness to do occasional late-night software maintenance work
  • Passion for delivering a great end-user game experience
  • Propensity for rattling off arcane Windows knowledge such as the merits of icacls over cacls, or the finer points of netsh

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Core Tools Engineer (Senior or Lead)

Obtain access to an absurd range of technologies and craft the tools that streamline Bungie’s workflow while bringing user interfaces, game loops, databases, source control, web services, and content pipelines together in ways you’ve only dreamed about. As a Core Tools Engineer at Bungie, you will be at the front line of innovating on and implementing the infrastructure tools that by industry standards are indistinguishable from magic.  You will have the opportunity to positively impact the workflow of every person at the company by contributing to build automation, test applications, engineering productivity tools, content analyzers, and several systems too dangerously advanced to speak of openly.

Required Skills

  • Professional experience programming C++, C#, ASP.NET and Web applications.
  • Experience writing and executing SQL queries.
  • Experience performance testing, unit testing, debugging and troubleshooting large C++ software applications.
  • Professional experience developing and/or maintaining multimedia content creation or asset management systems.
  • Practical understanding of algorithms, performance and optimization.
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Communicate clearly in a completely cross-functional, extremely collaborative environment.
  • Passion for games, game programming, tools and technology.
  • High quality bar (never settling for a job half done, always driven to understand the “why”).
  • Aptitude and appetite for pulling systems apart.
  • Enthusiastic about working with engineers, testers, designers and artists. 
  • Strong personal time-management skills, capable of working in an open environment with regular interruptions for customer service needs.
  • Experience with user interface development. 
  • Previous game development experience, preferably including current generation consoles. 

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent experience. 

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Release Engineer

As a Release Engineer at Bungie you will be involved in day-to-day work with our source control system and release process. No task is too big or too small as we're constantly striving to improve our existing processes to make them as foolproof and efficient as possible! 

Responsibilities

  • Handle source control administration tasks as needed (e.g. permissions, maintenance, etc.).
  • Assist with integrations across multiple branches.
  • Investigate, implement, document, and support new or existing processes / tools that may improve our efficiency.
  • Prepare and release patches, updates, and DLC on all supported console platforms, including communication with external partners.

Required Skills

  • Familiarity with source control administration (preferably Perforce) including development and implementation of branching, integration, and backup / replication strategies.
  • Familiarity with Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, and/or PS4 tools and release processes.
  • Proficiency with C#, Perl, and PowerShell to design, write, and test various tools, scripts, and triggers.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in both verbal and written skills with team members across the studio. 
  • Ability to coordinate with multiple teams and effectively prioritize tasks.
  • Ability to quickly solve or seek the solution to any problem in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
  • Strong problem solving / troubleshooting skills. 

Nice-to-have Skills

  • Working knowledge of C / C++.
  • Experience shipping AAA titles from the early alpha release to the full gold master.
  • Knowledge of content pipelines used during game production.
  • Knowledge of continuous integrations systems (e.g. Jenkins). 
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Windows / Ubuntu server software as well as hardware configurations.
  • Familiarity with Mac OSX (10.6.8+), shell scripting, and iOS platforms.
  • Flexibility to work extended hours and / or late nights as needed.
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Senior Producer - Fiction Team

Destiny tells a tale that will unfold for years, over many epic adventures undertaken by the player. To keep us focused on the longer arc, we need a Senior Producer to coordinate the work of our Fireteam of storytellers. The Fiction Producer will be responsible for driving the delivery of written content (including scripts for VO and cinematics content). 
 
The Fiction Producer will plan, organize, and oversee the production of fiction to keep our creative process running smoothly and producing quality content. This role manages all Fiction content production efforts by working closely with the Story Experience Director, Lead Writers, and in‐house and contract talent. 
 
This position requires understanding and passion for game development with a particular expertise in copy flow and content management processes. We need a leader to innovate on our processes at the same rate as we innovate on the game. This role will manage relationships with other internal teams -- managing expectations and schedules across groups. We need a professional who is highly organized with outstanding communication skills and proven experience in team leadership.
 
Responsibilities

  • Produce all of the Fiction Team efforts and manage the planning, scheduling, assigning, and tracking of detailed tasks.
  • Manage the review and approval process for the fiction deliverables as they come online.
  • Schedule and coordinate the details for all necessary meetings in accordance with individual and production schedules, and ensure action items are followed up on.
  • Assist the Story Director to implement his/her vision for the project.
  • Facilitate communication between the fiction team and other teams.
  • Cultivate a fun, positive and solution focused team culture.
  • Manage risks and establish risk mitigation.
  • Drive the goals of milestones in conjunction with the wider production team and the game development timeline.
  • Work with limited supervision and use independent judgment outside of established procedures when necessary.
  • Contribute to the planning and direction of the development and production of Destiny.
  • Ensure studio compliance with company policies and procedures.
 
Required Skills

  • Minimum 5 years game industry experience or two shipped AAA games.
  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, literature, journalism, or other writing intensive field.
  • Exemplary communication and organization skills.
  • Experience managing a medium-sized group of writers on a shipped game title or equivalent product.
  • Thorough understanding of game development processes and disciplines.
  • Social intelligence, great interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams.
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite and Project Management Software.

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Producer/Senior Producer - Live Dev

Destiny is a game that unites a fiercely passionate community in a living world. To keep that social landscape dynamic, a constant flow of development is devoted to the creation and release of new features. The team that is driving that effort craves a leader who shares their dream of a world that is always changing.

Bungie is seeking a Producer to drive the development of new and exciting social and investment features. The ideal candidate will have internal development experience, leadership experience with medium-sized teams, and the ability to work well in a creative environment. We need an excellent communicator who has contributed to the release of updates to an online game. Your passion for the successful orchestration of complex projects from concept through sustained release will be the key to your success.
 
Responsibilities

  • Work with internal research teams and internal stakeholders to create and maintain a backlog of near-term and long-term features responding to community, technical, and other feedback
  • From concept to release, lead and drive all production tasks in specified areas. Define clear and realistic production plans and determine resource needs
  • Act as the primary communication point for your specified areas. Balance schedules, team morale, and the overall vision
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration with other disciplines and teams. Constantly and clearly communicate status to stakeholders
  • Schedule and coordinate the details for all necessary meetings in accordance with individual and production schedules, and ensure action items are followed up on
  • Track and manage progress against budget
  • Manage risks and establish risk mitigation
  • Drive the goals of milestones in conjunction with the wider production team and the game development timeline
  • Work with limited supervision and use independent judgment outside of established procedures when necessary
  • Contribute to the planning and direction of the development and production of Destiny
  • Ensure studio compliance with company policies and procedures
 
Required Skills

  • 5+ years Producer/Senior Producer experience in internal games production.
  • Completed a minimum of one complete large scale game cycle from start to finish or two or more non-game production cycles
  • Experience with online, social games or MMOs
  • Exemplary communication skills: Listen to, speak with, and resolve conflicts with members of varied disciplines and external partners in a clear and efficient manner
  • Outstanding analytical skills: Understand, simplify, and solve or seek the solution to any problem in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
  • Ability to self-motivate and motivate others
  • Detail oriented and organized, comfortable dealing with ambiguity
  • Results oriented, focused and composed under pressure
  • Social intelligence, great interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams
  • Passion, enthusiasm and thorough knowledge of the games industry
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite and Project Management Software
  • Bachelor’s degree required

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UI/UX Producer for Console, Web, Mobile

Bungie is seeking a Producer to be a critical part of expanding the presence of the Destiny universe on devices everywhere. The UI/UX Producer will use independent judgment to drive success for Console, Web, and Mobile devices teams. They will also work to enhance the operations of the User Research and Customer Relationship Management teams.

The ideal candidate will have internal technical development experience with a special focus on UI and UX. We need a highly organized leader who can work well in a creative environment, be an excellent communicator, provide sound analysis, and be detail-oriented. These relevant skills are enhanced by a passion for the successful orchestration of complex projects from concept through sustained release.
 
This position will focus on the production of internal and external projects and support for marketing and PR initiatives. Our goal for this new teammate will be to balance external development timelines with resource commitments of the game development team and our publisher.
 
Responsibilities

  • Centralize the vision of the stakeholders for console, web, mobile, and UR/CRM initiatives
  • Produce the internal technical team responsible for the execution of UI/UX for console, web, and mobile
  • Act as the primary communication point for external project development -- balancing schedules, team morale, and the overall vision
  • Establish, maintain, and enhance relationship management of external partners, collaborating with our publisher(s)
  • Drive the assessment of potential partners
  • From concept to release, lead and drive all production tasks
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration with other disciplines, teams and stakeholders
  • Schedule and coordinate the details for all necessary meetings, and ensure action items are followed up
  • Track and manage progress against budget
  • Manage risks and establish risk mitigation
  • Drive the goals of milestones in conjunction with the wider production team and the game development timeline
  • Work with limited supervision and use independent judgment outside of established procedures when necessary
  • Train and mentor junior members of production staff
  • Contribute to the planning and direction of the development and production of all Bungie’s projects
  • Ensure studio compliance with company policies and procedures
  • Strive to improve production practices at Bungie
 
Required Skills

  • 5+ years of experience in internal games production and/or enterprise web and mobile application production
  • Experience in production of UI design and execution
  • Experience with iterative processes leveraging UR and analytics to drive feature development
  • Ability to schedule technical teams
  • Ability to self-motivate and motivate others
  • Ability to remain focused and composed under pressure
  • Exemplary communication skills: listen to, speak with, and resolve conflicts with members of varied disciplines and external partners
  • Outstanding analytical skills: understand, simplify, and solve any problem in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
  • Detail oriented and organized: prepared to speak to, and produce documents for, all aspects of specified area at any given time
  • Completed a minimum of one complete large scale game cycle from start to finish or two or more web production cycles
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite, TFS or equivalent
  • Passion, enthusiasm and knowledge of the games industry
  • Bachelor’s degree

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Service Producer

Destiny delivers a persistent adventure that takes place in a living, social world. Supporting that experience and keeping it stable is a job that’s never done. To guarantee the quality of our game, Bungie is seeking a Producer to work with our online service teams. This is an exciting new department at Bungie in which the right person can make a huge impact. 
 
In this role, you’ll work with service engineers, service testers, network engineers, and our live operations teams. Your job will be to help these teams develop processes and tools they need to manage our live services. You’ll also help them plan, schedule, communicate, and deliver the technology we’ll need to support future projects.
 
If you enjoy working on the high wire of a live service, we want to hear from you!
 
Responsibilities
 
  • From concept to release, lead and drive all production tasks in specified areas. Define clear and realistic production plans and determine resource needs.
  • Act as the primary communication point for your specified areas. Balance schedules, team morale, and the overall vision.
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration with other disciplines and teams. Constantly and clearly communicate status to stakeholders.
  • Schedule and coordinate the details for all necessary meetings in accordance with individual and production schedules, and ensure action items are followed up on.
  • Track and manage progress against budget.
  • Manage risks and establish risk mitigation.
  • Drive the goals of milestones in conjunction with the wider production team and the game development timeline.
  • Work with limited supervision and use independent judgment outside of established procedures when necessary.
  • Contribute to the planning and direction of the development and production of Destiny.
  • Ensure studio compliance with company policies and procedures.
 
Required Skills
 
  • Online services management experience. The ideal candidate for this post will have 2-3 years of experience as a manager, producer or program manager of an online product.
  • Cool under pressure.
  • Good at identifying process problems that slow down the team, proposing solutions and driving adoption.
  • Results-oriented. Ability to self-motivate and motivate others.
  • Exemplary communication skills: Listen to, speak with, and resolve conflicts with members of varied disciplines and external partners in a clear and efficient manner.
  • Outstanding analytical skills:  Understand, simplify, and solve or seek the solution to any problem in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
  • Detail oriented and organized: Prepared to speak to and produce documents for all aspects of specified area at any given time.
  • Passion and enthusiasm for the gaming industry.
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite.
 
Nice-to-Have Skills
 
  • Completed a large scale game cycle from start to finish or two or more non-game production cycles.
  • Bachelor’s degree.

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Associate Producer: Combatants

A game like Destiny needs enemies that are worthy of heroes. Our shooter needs targets.  Bungie is seeking a Producer to drive the efforts of teams that bring vile invaders to life so that our players can face them in battle. 

The ideal candidate will have internal development experience, work well in a creative environment, be an excellent communicator, and have a passion for the successful orchestration of complex projects from concept through sustained release. It also won’t hurt if they know how to hold their own against a Cabal Centurion. We need a dedicated professional to keep us organized as we fill our brave new world with bad guys.
 
Responsibilities

  • From concept to release, lead and drive all production tasks in specified areas. Define clear and realistic production plans and determine resource needs.
  • Act as the primary communication point for your specified areas. Balance schedules, team morale, and the overall vision.
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration with other disciplines and teams. Constantly and clearly communicate status to stakeholders.
  • Schedule and coordinate the details for all necessary meetings in accordance with individual and production schedules, and ensure action items are followed up on.
  • Track and manage progress against budget.
  • Manage risks and establish risk mitigation.
  • Drive the goals of milestones in conjunction with the wider production team and the game development timeline.
  • Work with limited supervision and use independent judgment outside of established procedures when necessary.
  • Contribute to the planning and direction of the development and production of Destiny.
  • Ensure studio compliance with company policies and procedures.
 
Required Skills

  • 3+ years Associate Producer/Producer experience in internal games production. 
  • Completed a minimum of one complete large scale game cycle from start to finish or two or more non-game production cycles.
  • Exemplary communication skills: Listen to, speak with, and resolve conflicts with members of varied disciplines and external partners in a clear and efficient manner.
  • Outstanding analytical skills: Understand, simplify, and solve or seek the solution to any problem in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
  • Ability to self-motivate and motivate others.
  • Detail oriented and organized, comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
  • Results oriented, focused and composed under pressure.
  • Social intelligence, great interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams.
  • Passion, enthusiasm and thorough knowledge of the games industry.
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite and Project Management Software.

Nice-to-have Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree. 
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Associate Producer: World and Concept Art

Bungie seeks a brave Associate Producer to guide the artists who lure concepts from their imaginations and realize them in a virtual world. The Associate Producer will work under the supervision of one of our experienced Producers and will be responsible for empowering the development of awe-inspiring games. We need a guiding force who loves games and wants to work with the creative minds who build them.
 
The ideal candidate will be organized, self-motivated, tenacious, and tactical when under fire from alien invaders. The challenge will be to handle epic debates, and wrangle a consensus among passionate, creative leads. If you're an empathetic and passionate Associate Producer who is rigorous and flourishes when handling ambiguity, this might be the role for you! If you always wanted to contribute to a video game, but couldn't see yourself creating art or writing code, this is your launch window.
 
Estimated Duration: Long term, project (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).
 
Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with an area lead to provide a specified team of content creators with relevant planning and documentation to ensure the successful delivery of their content.
  • Advocate and defend clear and realistic production plans.
  • Maintain the schedule, identify risks and escalate to production leads.
  • Build and maintain all documentation necessary for the successful planning and tracking of your area.
  • Identify and address any process bottlenecks in your areas.
  • Ensure proper and timely communication of relevant issues to Producers and Leads.
  • Support the goals of broader project milestones.
  • Support Producers with additional miscellaneous tasks.
  • Communicate effectively and leave no doubt about the plan of record.
 
Required Skills

  • 3+ years production experience in internal games production or equivalent experience.
  • Social intelligence, great interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams.
  • Results oriented, focused and composed under pressure.
  • Able to identify and resolve conflicts with members of various disciplines and external partners in a clear and efficient manner.
  • Ability to quickly solve or seek the solution to any problem in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
  • Passion, enthusiasm and knowledge of the games industry.
  • Experience with MS Office Suite or similar software and/or diverse project management methodologies.
  • Exemplary communication skills: Listen to, speak with, and resolve conflicts with members of varied disciplines and external partners in a clear and efficient manner.
 
Nice to Have 

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • Basic understanding of the world and concept art creation process.
  • Completed a minimum of one large scale game cycle from start to finish or two or more non-game production cycles.

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Associate Producer: Audio

Video Game development brings together many different creative disciplines, but it is the sound design that threads its way through almost every moment of every game experience. We are seeking an Associate Producer who will focus on the Audio team and related efforts. The Associate Producer will work under the supervision of more experienced production staff and will be responsible for assisting Producers in shipping high caliber and awe-inspiring games. The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator as well as analytical, detail oriented, highly organized, and passionate about the successful orchestration of complex plans.

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

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with an area lead to provide a specified team of content creators with relevant planning and documentation to ensure the successful delivery of their content
  • Facilitate ongoing and clear communication and collaboration between multiple parties and disciplines
  • Build and maintain any and all documentation necessary for the successful planning and tracking of your area
  • Identify and address any process bottlenecks in your area
  • Understand the risks in your area and escalate issues as appropriate
  • Ensure proper and timely communication of relevant issues to Producers and Leads
  • Support the goals of broader project milestones
  • Support Producers with additional miscellaneous tasks

Required Skills

  • 1-3 years relevant experience in a production or project management position
  • Superior organization, communication and analytical skills
  • Results oriented, focused and composed under pressure
  • Able to identify and resolve conflicts with members of varied disciplines and external partners in a clear and efficient manner
  • Ability to quickly solve or seek the solution to any problem in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
  • Passion, enthusiasm and knowledge of the games industry
  • Experience with Microsoft Project or similar software and/or diverse project management methodologies is a plus
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred 

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Automation SDET

Bungie is looking for a test professional who believes there is nothing better than when a computer is able to find critical bugs before a human has even booted up the build for the first time.  They should be passionate about how automation can not only save time, but allow a large test team to be more selective in the areas they focus their time on instead of re-visiting the same areas again and again.  They should also want to push the limits of how we can scale – at Bungie we have many builds that are being produced 24/7 and it’s required that we get automated coverage on all of them – how do we accomplish this without slowing the studio down as a whole?

An Automation SDET is expected to be able to work with many different disciplines / roles at Bungie.  They should be able to:

  • Work with Test Leads to understand and deliver the automated test coverage required in their area(s)
  • Work with Game Client Engineers to get the debug hooks which drive our automation to be implemented
  • Work with Automation Framework Engineers to investigate / diagnose major problems our automation farm is observing as well as helping to drive future system improvements
  • Work with Technical Testers (across the entire test org) to evangelize how automation can be used to improve their workflows (such as by helping them to build scripts that they can execute to assist in manual testing)

Required Skills

  • Strong cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration skills
  • Strong troubleshooting ability
  • Experience with C#
  • Experience with test frameworks (such as NUnit)
  • Experience creating manual and automated test cases
  • Experience creating test specs and test plans

Nice-to-have Skills

  • BS in Computer Science
  • Previous experience working on a shipped console title
  • Experience with tools included with console SDKs (Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 or PS4)
  • Experience troubleshooting server, console and / or networking issues
  • Experience doing data analysis (to help us proactively identify issues with our automation, if we are capable of adding more coverage, etc...)

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Player Advocacy Lead

Do you have experience in shipping and supporting AAA titles? Have you managed successful support teams in the past? Have you created and executed support plans for large releases in service of an enthusiastic fanbase? Are you organized and data-driven? 
 
We’re looking for a strong candidate who can be the conduit between the players playing our game and the team that is making and maintaining it.

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

Responsibilities

  • Be the primary liaison for communicating player-impacting issues to internal development teams, 3rd party partners, our publisher and other internal Bungie teams
  • Able to evangelize new methods and tools aimed at expediting our support process for customers and team
  • Responsible for support-team readiness and problem mitigation planning
  • Identify and track emerging issue trends as well as gauge customer sentiment in real-time; driving findings to team and leadership in a timely manner
  • Primary point of contact for tracking, prioritizing and communicating issues that are affecting a large customer base
  • Assist in maintaining the security and confidentiality of Bungie internal information and customer/account information
 
Required Skills

  • A minimum of 5 years of experience in player advocacy, personnel and/or customer support leadership
  • Management and/or leadership experience
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication skills
  • Strong player-centric focus
  • Passion for games, especially online gaming
  • Self-motivated and detail oriented with a track record of providing actionable insights and solutions
  • Ability to interact with stakeholders to share data-driven insights and analysis
  • High personal productivity with follow-up 
  • Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and methodologies quickly

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Web analytics knowledge/experience
  • Experience with SQL, bug-tracking software, network troubleshooting
  • Experience supporting AAA online titles

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Player Support Specialist

Responsibilities

  • Help procure and share community issues for Engineering, 3rd party partners, our publisher and other internal Bungie teams. 
  • Escalating top community and player issues to the appropriate internal teams for prioritization and resolution.
  • Provide feedback on the design, creation and testing of new methods and tools aimed at expediting our support process for customers and team.
  • Provide data to identify and track emerging issue trends as well as gauge customer sentiment in real-time. 
  • Respond to player inquiries on Bungie.net
  • Represent the DPS team in meetings concerning player sentiment and player messaging.
  • Write tweets, KB articles, and assist in game development as appropriate.

Required Skills

  • A minimum of 3 years’ experience in player advocacy, personnel and/or Customer Support
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication skills
  • Demonstrated strong player-centric focus
  • Passion for online gaming and gamer communities
  • Self-motivated and detail oriented with a track record of providing actionable insights and solutions
  • High personal productivity with demonstrated follow-up 
  • Highly curious, data driven (both qualitative and quantitative) individual 
  • Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly
 
Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience presenting high impact data in a visual way
  • Web analytics knowledge/experience
  • Experience with SQL, Jira, etc...

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Production Engineer

At Bungie, we have a special breed of support personnel called Production Engineers. We are part Technical Artist, Technical Designer, Engineer, Producer, and Tester. We are the glue that holds production of Bungie's games together. If helping create games by supporting content creators is not just your passion, but your calling, there may be a place for you on our team. 

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

Responsibilities

  • Test content pipelines and tools to ensure their quality before they are handed to content creators
  • Ensure that assets are technically correct and within budgets in engine by taking an engineered approach to testing them (writing a test specification, test cases, tracking changes, etc)
  • Assist artists and designers with set up of complex, dynamic, and interactive objects in engine
  • Provide support for content creators with software installation, tools troubleshooting, and source control
  • Assist designers with script and AI debugging
  • Write documentation for proprietary tools and processes
  • Write simple tools and scripts (from batch files to C# applications) that improve productivity and workflows for content creators
  • Manage file handoffs and object setup for outsourced assets
  • Act as an advocate for content creators when communicating with Engineers

Key Skills

  • Passion for supporting and enabling others
  • Thorough, highly organized, and detail-oriented
  • Superior written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to analyze, prioritize, and solve problems efficiently
  • Ability to take initiative and work independently with little supervision

Requirements

  • Software Testing/QA Experience
  • Experience writing and debugging batch files, simple scripts, or object-oriented programming, esp. Visual C#
  • Familiarity with Digital Content Creation Applications such as 3D Studio Max, Maya, and Photoshop
  • Expertise using Windows command line interface and Microsoft Office products (esp. Excel)
  • General knowledge of source control software such as Perforce
 
Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience working on a AAA game
  • Experience working with at least one 3D package (Max, Maya, XSI) in a game production environment
  • Technical Art or Computer Science background (applicable work experience and/or education)
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Investment Tester

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? Investment Testers are tasked with the daunting responsibility of testing all loot, progression systems, and reward systems in Destiny. If you love the idea of finding a bug in the game, then digging in to content to get to the root cause of that bug, we want you! Ideal applicants get excited at the thought of finding needles in haystacks, and relish the idea of scouring complex content setups to find problems before they reach our players.

Investment Testers are expected to have good technical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to rapidly understand complex new systems. Candidates should be comfortable spending less time in the game, and more time digging through content files and server logs. The person we seek strives to enhance our productivity and learn what they need to know to boost their own effectiveness.
 
Required Skills

  • 2+ years of experience software testing
  • Experience testing code driven, technical areas
  • Strong troubleshooting ability
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • 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
  • 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 creating test cases
  • Experience testing games with client and server components
  • Desire to enhance productivity through scripting and automation
  • Previous experience working on a shipped console title
  • Scripting or coding experience (C# preferred)
  • Previous experience working on loot or progression systems

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Technical Tester

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)
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Tools BVT Lead

The Build Verification Lead will work in tandem with other Leads to hire, train, and supervise the team of testers tasked with bringing our game, tools and build systems into a permanent state of stability.  You will work closely with the development, infrastructure and production teams to ensure content creator workflow, core game functionality and global tool stability.  If you possess the work ethic, passion and dedication to help us in our goal of world domination, you might be the perfect fit for our Tools BVT Lead position.

Tools BVT testing requires working with content creator tools, such as 3DS Max, Maya and multiple proprietary Bungie tools. Bungie is a fast paced, team environment where we strive for the utmost in product quality and customer satisfaction. To survive, you’ll need to bring with you the capability to adapt to unique scenarios and take on critical tasks as they arise.  It is expected you will strive for efficiency as you effortlessly adhere to test schedules, deadlines and execute test passes.

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

Required Skills

  • 2+ year experience software testing. 
  • 1+ year of Team Lead experience.
  • Experience in the creation of test cases, test specs and test plans.
  • Ability to communicate with clear and concise messaging in both verbal and written forms.
  • Good people management skills with a positive track record in building and motivating teams.
  • Strong leader; accomplished in cross group collaboration across multiple disciplines. 
  • Ability to coordinate and execute tasks in collaboration with multiple teams.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, enabling the reporting status for automated and manual testing.
  • Smart, driven and highly adaptable. 
  • Ability to identify and escalate issues to the appropriate parties.
  • Organized with a thorough attention to detail.
  • Strong problem solving & troubleshooting skills.
  • Willingness and ability to be a Tester as well as a Lead.
  • Produce and maintain useful documentation to facilitate the test process.

Desired Skills

  • Previous experience working on shipped titles.
  • Previous experience working directly with engineering teams.
  • Experience with source control software (perforce, source depot, etc.).
  • Experience with content creation tools (3DS Max, Maya, Level Editors, etc.).
  • Experience testing multiple SKUs (Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Mobile, etc.).
  • Experience with core product Build Verification Testing (BVT).

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PMS cool gray 6C / CMYK C0 M0 Y0 K30
RGB R188 G189 B192 / HEX #bcbdc0
dark version, solid swoosh
PMS 2925C / CMYK C80 M27 Y0 K0
RGB R0 G150 B219 / HEX #0096db
PMS DS 325-2C / CMYK C0 M0 Y0 K90
RGB R65 G65 B66 / HEX #414142
PMS cool gray 6C / CMYK C0 M0 Y0 K30
RGB R188 G189 B192 / HEX #bcbdc0

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Carnage Zone

The Septagon

Work at Bungie Gear Fist

Love (heart) Bungie

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