Game Tech Specialist at Paradox Interactive in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

What is the key ingredient to making awesome games, if not the impressive technical achievements that blend creativity with complex hardware? Do you take pride in your technical skills and your ability to improve the ways we test hardware performance for games? If you're ready for the challenge our Lab offers, we’d love for you to join us in testing and ensuring top-quality gaming experiences for our players.

Your Mission

You will support the Lab’s efforts in testing Paradox titles for hardware compatibility and performance. You’ll work closely with key hardware partners (Nvidia, Intel, Sony, etc.), inventory and curate our stock of cutting-edge gaming equipment, and identify additional components to ensure the Lab is always up-to-date. Building custom machines, troubleshooting Lab hardware, general administration, and performing performance tests will be part of your core tasks.

In collaboration with our game teams, you’ll execute performance tests, collect data, input QA bugs, and write performance and compatibility reports. You’ll sync with QA leads, Technical Directors and Producers to create test protocols, and you will help in expanding our knowledge of the latest hardware trends.

You will report to the GameTech Manager and work closely with him to ensure that the Lab’s operations are streamlined and efficient, providing feedback and insights to improve overall performance testing.

The skills we are searching for

Good knowledge of PC hardware and hands-on technical experience
Familiarity with OS deployment, software installation and networking
A background in gaming or QA is a plus, not a must
Good communication skills and fluency in English, both written and spoken

On a personal level, you are detail-oriented, passionate about hardware, and skilled at troubleshooting and solving technical challenges. You excel at staying organized, and love playing video games!

Practical Information
Scope: Full-time
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Reports to: GameTech Manager
Remote status: Office based

About The Company

Paradox Interactive is a leading, global publisher of deep, replayable games.

We create intellectually challenging games, with long lifespans and a vibrant player communities. Our heart and soul lies in strategy and management games but we occasionally make calculated bets in other genres where we believe there is break-out potential.

Our steadily-growing portfolio includes titles from established series like Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Europa Universalis, Stellaris and Hearts of Iron. Millions of people from all over the world play our games every month, and participate in their continuous development through their purchases and insights they share with us.

Paradox offices are located in Sweden, France, Netherlands, Finland and USA, and each houses creative staff, skilled in a wide variety of areas of expertise. No matter the specialization, each of us contributes to giving our players the best game experiences and value for their money and time.

Everyone at Paradox is expected to know our players, why they love our games and have an awareness of how their work impacts them in the end. We foster highly-engaged communities, where we encourage our fans to share their sentiment, and empower our colleagues to turn that feedback into action that benefits both our business and fans.

If that sounds good, and you share our vision, we’d love you to join us. Check out our career page: https://career.paradoxplaza.com/#jobs