Associate Systems Designer

1 Month ago • All levels • Design • $50,000 PA - $100,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Bethesda Game Studios, the creators of Starfield, The Elder Scrolls, and Fallout, is seeking an Associate Systems Designer. This role involves assisting in the design and maintenance of gameplay and world simulation systems, including combat balance, enemy encounters, player/item abilities, economy, and scripting. The designer will use proprietary tools to implement data and script gameplay logic, collaborating with senior designers and other departments to ensure system quality and consistency. Responsibilities also include providing constructive feedback on game content and performing bug fixes.
Must have:
  • Assist in design/maintenance of gameplay systems
  • Use proprietary toolset for data implementation
  • Work with senior designers for consistency
  • Collaborate with Art, Code, Design, Production
  • Play game content and provide feedback
  • Maintain existing content and fix bugs
  • Excellent data management skills
  • Comfortable with programming/scripting languages
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills
  • Strong familiarity with open world games
  • Self-driven with attention to detail
  • Provide a portfolio of work
Good to have:
  • Professional Systems Design experience
  • Professional programming or scripting experience
  • Strong familiarity with BGS games
Perks:
  • Competitive salaries
  • Generous benefits program

Job Details

Overview

Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind StarfieldThe Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As Associate Systems Designer, you will…

  • Assist the design and maintenance of our gameplay and world simulation systems, including combat balance numbers, enemy encounter statistics, player and item abilities, in-game economy values, gameplay mechanics tuning, and systemic content scripting
  • Use proprietary toolset to implement data and script gameplay and content logic
  • Work closely with senior systems designers to ensure consistency, scope, and quality of content
  • Work closely with all departments (Art, Code, Design, Production) to ensure systems meet established goals
  • Regularly play game content and provide constructive feedback to fellow designers to help improve the product
  • Maintain existing content and make required bug fixes

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

  • You have excellent data management skills and can make sense of how that data interacts with how the game plays and feels
  • You are comfortable with programming and/or scripting languages and can make sense of other people’s code/scripts
  • You possess excellent communication and documentation skills
  • You have strong familiarity with a variety of open world games
  • You are self-driven, with a strong focus and attention to detail
  • You have experience with The Elder Scrolls Construction Set or GECK

You must provide a portfolio featuring examples of your work 

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills

  • You have professional Systems Design experience
  • You have professional programming or scripting experience
  • You have strong familiarity with BGS games

This position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.

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