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Senior Gameplay Engineer

California, United States (On-site)

Senior Gameplay Engineer

5 Months ago • All levels • Game Design • Undisclosed

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Job Description

Senior Gameplay Engineer with experience shipping successful VR games, advanced animation frameworks, and strong game feel intuition. Must be able to prototype rapidly.

Must have:

Shipped VR Games
Animation Frameworks
Game Feel Intuition
Rapid Prototyping

Good to have:

Multiple Game Engines
LLM & AI Systems
Materials & Shaders
Modding Experience

Perks:

Unlimited PTO
Health & Wellness Stipend

We’re looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer with a 6th sense for good game feel to help us explore brave new frontiers in VR interaction and gameplay. You must be an incredibly passionate game engineer with a penchant for nailing game feel and aesthetic.

Your design sensibilities for what feels good in VR gaming must be S-tier, and you must be able to show demonstrable success shipping successful products while being super fast at prototyping.

We encourage people with non-traditional backgrounds in modding and game development to apply. Some of our best engineers have come from the modding community. Maybe you’ve been modding Minecraft since you were in grade school – or making Roblox games / tinkering with Steam workshops.

Requirements

Shipped successful projects, either solo or on a team, where you owned a major system
Experience working with advanced animation frameworks, especially systems that use a combination of different FK and IK solutions to produce AAA level animations.
Good taste and intuition on aesthetic and game-feel, validated by shipping successful titles.
Demonstrable experience creating and then owning core gameplay systems and with minimal supervision.
Experience building tactile gaming experiences in VR.

Pluses

Building in multiple game engines
Experience building and prototyping systems using LLMs and generative AI
Materials and shaders

About Ramen VR

Meaningful games can change lives, and every game starts with its developers. We believe that game devs can change the world.

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We're a team of devs working on solving the hardest problems in game development. We previously built the #1 VR game Zenith: The Last City on Steam and Quest.

We've raised $40m+ to date and have been working in stealth on our next game as well as tools that will shape the future of game development.

We're funded by some of the best investors and gaming entrepreneurs in the world including YCombinator, The Makers Fund, Twitch COO Kevin Lin, and Kabam Cofounder Holly Liu and also the most successful VR Gaming Kickstarter of all time.

Why Work At Ramen VR?

Create the next reality

Every startup claims they are changing the world. How often do you find one that's building an entirely new reality? Also, we're such a small team, that you'll be working from and learning directly from the founders every day.

We Love Games

Have a favorite game coming out? Take a day off on launch day. We'll even buy you the deluxe version of the game. Play the game, and just do a short write-up to teach us what you learned. Join weekly game lunches where we bond and play games together as a team.

Company Retreats

Travel somewhere in the world with us, and live in a big house together for a week, all expenses paid. Spend time working, playing games, exploring a new country, and growing together.

Benefits

For full-time employees, we offer unlimited PTO, full coverage health insurance (for you and dependents) if you're based in the US, an annual health & wellness stipend for non-US based folks, annual tech stipends to use towards VR or equipment and more.

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