Balance Designer - Systems

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Systems Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks a Balance Designer to join the Fortnite team. Responsibilities include tuning and balancing game items, limited-time modes, and gameplay systems, with a focus on loot tables, gameplay systems design, and economy design. The role involves identifying and addressing live issues, creating hotfixes, and proactively balancing future features. This includes designing itemization systems (loot tables, rarity, affixes), implementing and tuning gameplay systems (e.g., gold bars), using data to inform design decisions, and adjusting live balance in real-time. Collaboration with other design teams is crucial for iterative feedback and polish. Experience with live service, multiplayer PVP, or battle royale products is highly valued.
Must have:
  • 5+ years in game design (systems & balance)
  • Gameplay economy design experience
  • Live service, PVP, or battle royale experience
  • Unreal Engine (Blueprints) proficiency
  • Excellent communication & collaboration skills
  • Adaptability to changing project needs
Good to have:
  • Experience with analytics tools (SQL, Tableau, etc.)
  • Deep understanding and passion for Fortnite
Perks:
  • 100% benefits coverage for employees & dependents
  • Supplemental medical, dental, vision, etc.
  • Robust mental well-being program
  • Retirement savings plan with employer match

Job Details

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

DESIGN

What We Do

Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a Balance Designer to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role, you will tune and balance Fortnite items, limited-time modes, and other gameplay systems. This role will have extra emphasis on loot tables, gameplay systems design, and economy design. Balance Designers at Epic identify live issues and create hotfixes for game content in real time and will focus on proactively balancing future gameplay features in coordination with other teams.

In this role, you will

  • Work on and own the design of itemization systems, including loot tables, rarity, and affixes, to ensure a satisfying and diverse loot meta for several different game modes.
  • Design, implement, and maintain/tune gameplay systems, such as gold bars, based on goals and data; This includes transient and persistent gameplay economies or progression systems
  • Use data to inform design decisions and measure outcomes. Identify practical solutions to problems and help drive empathetic design to improve player experience
  • Adjust live balance in real-time; Adjusting numbers, loot, and all knobs available to come up with the optimal solutions. Helping pre-emptively set features to be balanced/adjusted post-launch
  • Tuning and balancing Fortnite items, limited-time modes, and other gameplay systems
  • Work closely with other game design teams to iterate and provide feedback and polish to the design process
  • Working effectively in a collaborative environment, providing input and regular feedback

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years experience in game design, focusing on systems design and balance
  • Previous gameplay (non-MTX) economy design is a plus
  • Previous experience on a live service, multiplayer PVP, or battle royale product is a plus
  • Prior experience with Unreal Engine (especially blueprints)
  • Ability to communicate your ideas and collaborate with others (written or verbal)
  • Ability to react to changing project needs and directions extremely quickly
  • It's a plus if you have any experience with analytics tools/languages/processes (SQL, Tableau, Databricks, Grafana, etc)
  • Deep understanding and passion for Fortnite

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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About The Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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