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Playground Games

Principal Gameplay Engineer

Playground Games · hybrid · middle · full-time · $130000–$200000 USD
gamingtech C++
8.0
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Job description
Playground Games is looking for a Principal Gameplay Engineer to join our Fable team.
Responsibilities
### What you’ll do: - Work with stakeholder groups to identify gameplay features and core technology requirements. - Manage goals and ensure delivery of work for a team of engineers. - Work with multi-discipline to understand and prioritise dependencies. - Champion ideas and features for your team. - Planning and driving future features and seeing them to completion.
Requirements
### What you’ll bring: - 6+ years of engineering experience. - At least 1 year in a Principal or Lead level position. - Experience mentoring a team of engineers. - High level of proficiency with C++. - Keen collaboration and delivery mindset. - Experience with custom, proprietary engines is a plus. - History with single player Open World and/or RPG experiences. - Full feature ownership from planning to implementation. - A genuine passion for video games.
Conditions
### What we offer: - A fantastic opportunity to make world-class games with an established, talented, and collaborative team. - A commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion across various dimensions. - Support for self-development, career progression, well-being, and retention of colleagues.
About Playground Games
Playground Games is a British AAA video game developer known for creating the Forza Horizon series and currently working on the next Fable game. The studio focuses on genre-defining gaming experiences, including open-world racing and fantasy RPGs, for a global audience.[1][2]
GameDev · 201-500 · Leamington Spa, England · Founded 2009 · https://playground-games.com
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