You will work directly with the Art Director to establish a style and feel for the environments, characters and objects for new titles.  You will also work closely with the production art team to help them envision what the finished results can be for the in-game content they are creating.  As the ideal candidate, you should amaze us with creative designs and artwork and have the capability to inspire greatness in those around you.

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of character proportion and costume design.
• Ability to quickly iterate concepts given input from the art director.
• Professional attitude and an ability to take constructive criticism.
• An exceptional understanding of mood, lighting and architecture with a keen eye towards form, shape, structure, and silhouette in regards to illustration and design.
• Superior eye for light, value, composition, color, staging and detail in environmental design.
• Strong foundation in the traditional arts, including, but not limited to, figure drawing, landscape painting, and illustration.
• The ability to carry an idea from the conceptual phase to the finished illustration and an understanding of translating these ideas to real-time game content.
• Self-driven, good communicator and a great team-player.
• A passion for games.
• Experience with Photoshop, Painter. 3D software knowledge not an absolute requirement.

Educational Requirements:

AA/BFA preferred, or at least demonstrates through portfolio an industry standard level of art.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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An Art Director at Bungie is a visionary who can clearly communicate their ideas to a team of artists and will always lead by example. They collaborate with the Creative Director, Design Leads, and Engineering Leads to form the vision for what is going to make our next game great and then instructs our team of artists on how to clearly execute on that vision.

Essential Functions:

• Collaboratively develop and maintain a consistent artistic vision for a project.
• Lead the development of all concept work created for a project.
• Ensure quality and consistency of all content created by the art team.
• Work with artists to understand their craft and help push them to create better art.
• Help develop educational paths to maintain the artist staff and continue their growth.
• Help grow, mentor and support art leads on project.
• Hold regular critiques with individual disciplines and whole art team.
• Take an active role in planning of projects, authoring/maintaining style guides, gathering reference material and commissioning concept illustrations.
• Collaborate with Art Manager (project) and Producers to review and approve the art content being built.
• Provide input on tasks and completion times for tasks in support of the Project Art/Manager and Producers.

 

Desired Qualifications:

• Exemplary communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead large groups of diverse individuals.
• Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program that provides an education in the fundamentals of art.
• Thorough knowledge of Photoshop, Maya, Max and other 2D/3D applications.
• Four or more years experience working as a Lead artist on a shipped game title.
• One or more years experience as Art Director on a shipped game title.

 

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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We need you to help us bring animation to the next level.  Interactive animation is at a crossroads where technology is allowing users to drive an amazing amount of motion through our characters. Are you excited about the possibilities that exist in layering and blending a multitude of animations in a real-time environment? We need someone to approach this task with as much attention to the creative art of animation as they apply to the technical task of making it happen.

As Senior Animator you will be involved in all aspects of the production from the initial concept of character movement and technical considerations of implementation to collaboration with other art teams and the creation of final animation.  You will concept and finalize spectacular hand-keyed in-game and cinematic animation for a variety of characters, both human and creature. You will participate in the technical side of animation through custom character rigging and custom tools creation. You will support the animation teams goals of efficient and aesthetic completion of tasks as well as participating in critique towards animation and the overall creative process. You will support the Animation Manager in driving and directing the animation system and its custom toolset in collaboration with the best engineering staff in the industry.

Essential Functions 

• Create high quality key-frame animations
• Work on asset creation tasks assigned to you by Animation Manager
• Work with the Art Director and Animation Manager to help set the quality bar for asset creation.
• Collaborate with small team of peers in completing a specific, project-related task.
• Provide input to Animation Manager regarding schedule times for assets assigned to you.
• Strive to optimize and enhance an effective animation pipeline while identifying workflow improvements
• Help incorporate new tools and technologies into the pipeline used in your craft.
• Exhibit, and be able to teach to other artists, an expertise in your craft.

 

Desired Qualifications

• Good communication skills.
• Must have the desire to create great games    
• Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program that provides an education in the fundamentals of art.
• Thorough knowledge of Maya, Max and other animation applications.
• Five or more years experience working as an animator on a shipped game title (AAA) with 1 or more years of Senior Animator experience
• Proven ability to provide leadership and direction to other animators a plus
• Understanding of mo-cap techniques a plus
• An understanding of human and animal anatomy is an asset

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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You will work directly with the Art Director to establish a style and feel for the backgrounds that are part of the environments and scenes in Bungie games.You will use your artistic talents to replicate the environment lighting in a convincing and aesthetic way.

Essential Functions 

• Create the 2D painted backgrounds required to complete any 3D environments or cinematic scenes in the game while working with the cinematic and environment disciplines
• Create 3d geometry to be used as backgrounds for environments or cutscenes
• Troubleshoot and use talents to create visually stunning backgrounds which match and enhance the game’s style and 3D requirements, using direction given by the Art Director and Environment Art Lead

Desired Qualifications

• One or more years experience preferred as a 2D/3D Artist on a published title
• Thorough knowledge of Photoshop, Maya, Max and other 2D/3D applications
• Strong skills in painting (photorealism), drawing, composition, color matching
• Ability to create matte paintings stylistically and / or photos realistically using 2D and 3D applications
• Ability to integrate illustration with existing 3D environments
• Ability to follow directions and complete tasks independently while working within the framework of a team
• Excellent aptitude for problem solving 
• Must be able to continually adapt and adopt new technologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to meet tight deadlines

 Educational Requirements

• Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program preferred that provides an education in the fundamentals of art

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie is looking for an experienced special effects artist with the right blend of artistic inspiration and technical savvy to create effects for our next project.  Help us fill our game worlds with effects big and small, realistic and entirely imagined.  

Essential Functions:

• Create eye-popping effects that enhance gameplay and storytelling.
• Paint particle and decal textures.
• Animate particle motion using custom tools
• Work closely with artists, animators, designers and developers to integrate effects into a game engine.
• Help guide further development of internal effects editing tools

 Desired Qualifications:

• Two or more years professional game industry experience
• At least one shipped title as effects artist.
• A portfolio or demo reel that demonstrates strong artistic and technical skills as well as a firm grasp of timing and scale.
• Excellent cross-discipline communication skills
• Must love explosions, fire, and gallons of alien viscera.
• Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent experience

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie Studios is looking for talented individuals to help create awe-inspiring visuals for breath-taking gaming worlds. This is an amazing opportunity to work with world-class art talent to develop a visually-inspired AAA title.

Essential Functions         

• Take environments that have been painstakingly designed and turn them from great designs to works of art.        
• Paint custom texture sets for levels.        
• Light spaces using proprietary lighting tools developed just for you.        
• Finish out environments with detail objects, decals, dynamic lights, and animated objects. 

Desired Qualifications         

• You have strong communication skills.         
• You are comfortable working in a team environment.         
• You are familiar with the game development process.         
• You have a strong understanding of light, value, composition, color, staging and detail in environmental design.         
• Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program that provides an education in the fundamentals of art.         
• Knowledge of Photoshop, Maya, Max and other 2D/3D applications.         
• One or more years experience working as an artist on a shipped title.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie is seeking a User Interface Art Lead to manage and support a team of UI artists as they create the next brilliant interfaces to our future game titles.

Essential Functions:

As a Lead you will manage as well as contribute to the vision and art direction for the game’s offline and online user interface, overseeing both the design functionality and the design visuals of our UI. You will be responsible for working with production to create the user interface design plans and maintain an ongoing relationship with the engineers and game designers,  serving as a point of contact between the teams. You will also be responsible for the day to day personnel management and long term growth of the UI team as well as schedule and staff planning for current and future projects.

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior experience and proven ability to lead and mentor a creative team
• Prior experience designing user interfaces for games and other products
• Ability to give design direction and critique with an eye towards usability
• Proven personal and professional organizational skills
• Experience in managing schedules and competing priorities
• Intense curiosity, creativity and the keen ability to stay abreast of positive trends in game design, software and industrial design  
• Extensive experience playing online games including Halo 2 and Halo 3
• Fearless and creative approach to solving challenging, complex problems
• Exceptional team player with strong cross-group communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Skilled in both After Effects and Flash
• Experience with third party UI software a plus 
• Submissions without portfolios of previous UI design work will not be considered

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Software company seeking Senior Production Artist to oversee the creation of compelling virtual environments and graphic elements for interactive software using theoretical and practical knowledge of Inverse Kinematics, 3D Studio Max, Character Studio and Photoshop. Req: BA & 2 years of work exp. Jobsite: Kirkland, WA. Work Authentication required if hired. Please reference KB1101 in subject line when applying. No third party vendors please.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie Studios is looking for an experienced Project Art Manager to help manage the growing art needs. The Art Manager will be able to lead and motivate a talented group of artists to do their best work. The Art Manager will work closely with the project’s producer, art director, engineer lead, and design lead to help them fully realize their vision for their game. 

Essential Functions

• Provide the production team with all necessary input to plan, schedule, assign, and track the detailed tasks of the various art disciplines across the team.
• Manage the review and approval process for the art assets as they come online.
• Act as the liaison with out-sourcing companies for asset creation.
• Responsible for managing project art team, including hiring, goal setting, performance reviews, and finding contract artists to suit project needs
• Supervise workflow of internal and external artists, and provide guidance, inspiration and mentoring as needed
• Assist the Studio Art Manager in enforcing work policies and standards.
• Assist the Art Director to implement his/her vision for the project.
• Step in and plug any holes to help out the project whenever possible.

Desired Qualifications

• Exemplary communication and organization skills
• Experience managing a large-sized (15 or more) group of artists on a shipped game title.
• Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program that provides an education in the fundamentals of art.  
• Thorough knowledge of Photoshop, Maya, Max and other 2D/3D applications.
• Three or more years experience working as a Lead artist on a shipped AAA game title
• Passion for the game creation process and problem solving

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie Studios is looking for an experienced 3d Art Lead to help take our 3D art to the next level. We’re looking for someone to help define and implement new processes and pipelines for our 3D art incorporating all the latest technologies and techniques. The ideal candidate has extensive experience modeling and texturing a diverse visual range of characters and creatures at a senior or lead level. 

Essential Functions

• Define the vision for all 3D Art in the game with direction from the Art Director.
• Define and help implement all processes for creating 3D Art content.
• Assist the Art Manager (project) in planning, scheduling, assigning, and tracking the detailed tasks that are 3D-art related.         
• Collaborate with the Creative Director and Design Leads to make sure all 3D Art is satisfying all game design needs.         
• Provide input regarding 3D artists to Art Manager (project) for performance reviews.         
• Set an example for all 3D team members by regularly demonstrating strong work ethics, exemplary quality of work, teamwork, motivation, and solid leadership.        
  
• Mentor 3D artists in becoming stronger artists and contributors.  

Desired Qualifications

• Strong communication skills.         
• An exceptional understanding of human and creature anatomy and a keen eye toward form, shape, structure, and silhouette in regard to modeling         
• Superior eye for light, shade, color, and detail in creating texture maps           Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program that provides an education in the fundamentals of art.         
• Thorough knowledge of Photoshop, Maya, Max, Mudbox, Zbrush and other 2D/3D applications.         
• Three or more years experience working as a (senior) 3D artist on a shipped AAA game title.         
• Strong collaboration skills.         
• Passion for game content creation.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you play all the way through games the same night you get them? Do you spend way too much time thinking about what a great multiplayer arena the loop between your living room, dining room, and kitchen would make? Do you replay games to discover new secrets and repeat great experiences? If so we have the job for you! Bungie Studios, the creator of Halo, is looking for a passionate, creative and hard working Mission Designer for our next project.

Essential Functions

As a Designer at Bungie, you will work with the Design Lead and Engineers to develop game systems and AI features relevant to your missions.  You will work closely with the Environmental Art Team to construct game environments, and script missions and/or multiplayer spaces with our proprietary scripting language.  You will evaluate gameplay pacing, flow, and difficulty curves to polish game encounters for an optimum player experience. You will construct spaces and AI setups to create a detailed structure for your encounters. You will document the design of and changes to your portions of the game to ensure smooth communication with other disciplines on the team.

Desired Qualifications

• The desire to achieve personal excellence as part of an outstanding team.
• Prior experience designing levels and scripting encounters for action games.
• A creative and innovative approach to traditional design problems.
• A willingness to take design direction when it is offered and collaborate with team members from different disciplines.
• The focus and motivation to work independently when needed.
• Ability to drive a gameplay space from concept to final polishing stage.
• Functional understanding of 3D Studio Max a plus.
• Associate level degree or higher a plus.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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When you enter a building do you instinctively scan for cover and exits? Do you spend way too much time thinking about what a great multiplayer arena the loop between your living room, dining room, and kitchen would make? Do you play single player games primarily to hone your multiplayer reflexes? If so we have the job for you!

Essential Functions

Bungie is seeking a dedicated multiplayer designer. As a multiplayer designer you will be an integral member of a small but powerful team of multiplayer ninjas. You will help develop and document the multiplayer game engine and will be responsible for designing engaging multiplayer levels. You will work directly with environment artists and other game designers, and will contribute to the vision for the multiplayer game. You will work with the engineers to design and develop multiplayer tools. You will partner with user testing to evaluate ideas and validate implementations. You will ultimately be responsible for setup and fine tuning of multiplayer maps, including everything from weapon placement to player spawning and everything in between.  

Desired Qualifications

• Prior experience designing multiplayer levels or mods for action games
  
• Strong problem solving ability and methodology with a focus on creative, innovative solutions
  
• Proven abilities solving challenging, complex and difficult problems
  
• Extensive experience playing multiplayer action games in both LAN and online settings
  
• Exceptional team player with strong communication skills
  
• Willingness to take design direction when offered, and the ability and motivation to work independently when it isn’t
  
• Ability to communicate ideas for 3D spaces in 2D
  
• An all-consuming desire to help Bungie create the best games in the known universe

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie is seeking a User Interface Designer to help us design our future game titles. As a UI designer you will contribute to the vision for the game’s offline and online user interface. You will be responsible for documenting the user interface design plans, with special attention paid to writing detailed specifications and flows that the rest of the team can base their plans on. You will maintain an ongoing relationship with the engineers, artists and game designers, working directly with the game designers and UI artists to ensure that the game play vision is easily understood by the player.

Essential Functions:

You will be responsible for ensuring that our UI is ultimately accessible, and towards this end you will solicit ongoing feedback from the team and will manage the relationship with User Research. You will also work with the Test and Localization teams to manage day to day issues and you will be responsible for ensuring our UI designs are localization friendly and platform compliant. You will assist with and write all text in the UI, be involved in functional prototyping and assist with UI assembly as needed. Finally, you will be a point of contact for the Xbox Live team, understanding everything Xbox Live does that affects the UI and staying on top of changes, and partnering with the Xbox Live team to ensure that their services support every aspect of Bungie’s online UI implementation.

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior experience designing user interfaces, preferably for console games
• Intense curiosity, creativity and the keen ability to stay abreast of positive trends in game design, software and industrial design  
• Extensive experience playing online games including Halo 2 and Halo 3
• Fearless and creative approach to solving challenging, complex problems
• Burning desire to break the mold to take game interfaces to uncharted waters
• Proven ability to thoroughly document complex and detailed design plans
• Exceptional team player with strong cross-group communication skills
• Willingness to take design direction when offered, and the ability to work independently when it isn’t
• Prior experience working with engineers and artists
• Submissions without portfolios of previous UI design work will not be considered

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Have you ever gotten in a fistfight over the relative merits of motion capture versus keyframed animation?  Have you ever found yourself blaming a loss in Street Fighter on an unfair frame count?  Have you ever experimented in Maya to see just how flexible a dead body ought to be when flying through the air?  If so we have the job for you!  Bungie Studios is looking for a passionate, creative and hard-working Technical Designer specializing in Animation for our next project.  

Essential Functions

As a Technical Designer at Bungie, you will work with the Animation Lead and our Programmers to develop a cutting edge Animation system.  Then you will work with the Design Lead and the Animators on the style, quality and implementation of all the animation in the game.  You will be responsible for setting animation standards, carrying through the design vision into the animations, blending the numerous individual animations into a smooth gameplay experience and polishing and bug-fixing at the end of the project.  

Desired Qualifications

• The desire to achieve personal excellence as part of an outstanding team
• A deep understanding of animations, from how they are authored to the variety of animation systems used by games
• An eye for criticizing and improving the aesthetic quality of animations
• Good design instincts and an understanding of how animation effects game design
• A willingness to take design direction when it is offered and collaborate with team members from different disciplines
• The focus and motivation to work independently when needed
• Prior experience authoring animations for games
• Functional understanding of authoring animations in Maya a plus

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you love the challenge of game design?  Are you an experienced game designer looking to work on AAA games with talented and passionate people in a team environment?  If so, Bungie Studios, the creator of Halo, is looking for you! 

Essential Functions:

As a game designer, you work under direction of the Design Lead to craft and design high-level game systems. You will collaborate with team members from other disciplines to drive the gameplay experience and create design documentation in relation to the various game elements assigned to you. You will also contribute to design processes and communication that will ensure the games you work on are the very best they can possibly be.

 

Desired Qualifications

• Two years of professional game design experience minimum.
• Intuition and understanding of how to create exceptionally fun game play systems and how they can interact.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with designers, artists, programmers, musicians, testers and producers.
• Dedication to contributing to a positive work environment.
• Passion for playing and making games.
• Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative.
• Thorough understanding of game engines, technology and the game development process.
• Bachelor’s level degree or equivalent experience a plus.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Job Duties:

Perform general software design, planning and implementation of innovative console games.  Design and provide ongoing management to company's online player services ranging from user support to enforcement of conduct policies.  Oversee the assorted content creation and production tasks.  Anticipate potential problems and provide analysis to drive the best solutions using custom design tools created by the engineering team. Use practical knowledge to troubleshoot basic issues and provide broadband support during testing of new game versions. Oversee the junior designers who assist in creating content for the missions.  Analyze the parameters of the visual environment and rendering of the motions, geometry, lighting, and other complex graphical elements.  

Position Requirements:

Requires four years of experience in a job offered or as Level Designer.

Principals only. Work Authorization required if hired. Please reference KB1102 when applying.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you play all the way through games the same night you get them? Do you spend way too much time thinking about what a great multiplayer arena the loop between your living room, dining room, and kitchen would make? Do you replay games to discover new secrets and repeat great experiences? If so we have the job for you! Bungie Studios, the creators of Halo, is looking for a passionate, creative and hard working Designer for our next project.

 

Essential Functions:

As a Level Designer at Bungie, you will work closely with a Mission Designer and Environmental Artist to construct game environments, and script missions and/or multiplayer spaces with our proprietary scripting language.  You will evaluate gameplay pacing, flow, and difficulty curves to polish game encounters for an optimum player experience.  You will document the design of and changes to your portions of the game to ensure smooth communication with other disciplines on the team, and serve as a link between the Mission Designer and Environmental Artist to ensure gameplay and art converge to make the best game levels ever made.

 

 

Desired Qualifications

• Two years of professional game design experience.
• The desire to achieve personal excellence as part of an outstanding team.
• Prior experience designing levels and scripting encounters for action games.
• A creative and innovative approach to traditional design problems.
• A willingness to take design direction when it is offered and collaborate with team members from different disciplines.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with designers, artists, programmers, musicians, testers and producers.
• The focus and motivation to work independently when needed.
• Ability to drive a gameplay space from concept to final polishing stage.
• A solid Art background that allows you to understand how art and design can work together
• Thorough understanding of 3D Studio Max.
• Thorough understanding of game engines, technology and the game development process.
• Bachelor’s level degree or equivalent experience a plus

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Press A to learn that Bungie is seeking a UI engineer with an excellent understanding of what makes a game interface tick. We need a talented thinker who can help Bungie create, improve and advance the science of user interaction. Press A to read more.

Essential Functions:

• Embrace and extend our in-game user interface engine and related designer tools
• Work with the designers to refine and cost their desires
• Turn the designers’ plans into fearsome reality

 
Desired Qualifications:

• Real passion for users’ experience and the way they interface with software
• Good communication skills
• Solid working knowledge of C/C++
• Passion for playing and developing exceptional console games
• A BA in computer science or math, or equivalent experience

 
Plusses:

• Previous console experience
• Professional C/C++ coding experience
• Experience developing user interfaces and interface systems for console games
• Experience working in a team environment

Please email resumes (along with demos, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to: jobs@bungie.com

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie requires the skills and services of a ruthlessly competent Network Engineer to help us build on our already dizzying heights of Netcode excellence. We need a genius who understands every aspect of networking and matchmaking to power our human-fueled engine of social gaming.

Essential Functions:

• Own vast sections of our multiplayer game engine, matchmaking and party system
• Work with designers to specify and cost multiplayer features

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to write solid, maintainable C/C++ code
• Good communication skills
• Passion for playing and developing exceptional console games
• A BA in computer science or math, or equivalent experience

Plusses:

• Professional C/C++ coding and design experience
• Previous console experience
• Knowledge of networking protocols and infrastructure
• Experience working in a team environment

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Job Duties:

Design, implement and test interactive multimedia video games software and online platforms with other software engineers and developers in the Bungie Development Team. Implement the latest gaming technology to create and design enhancements to the company’s existing game products. Implement technology for rendering dynamic objects moving in real-time for optimal graphic realism. Analyze software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Formulate and design new software systems using formulated methods of research to measure outcome and consequences of design. Develop and direct software system  testing, programming and documentation procedures

Position Requirements:

Requires Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Foreign equivalent is acceptable. Principals only. Work Authorizations required if hired.

Please reference KB1105 when applying.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Job Duties:

Lead the Artificial Intelligence and Animation teams, providing both technical and management leadership. Work with company's Game Design and Art teams to improve technical tools and increase efficiency. Oversee all aspects of design, implementation and maintenance of Artificial Intelligence components and Animation Engine. Perform engineering work for Artificial Intelligence and Animation engines.

Position requirements: 

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related, foreign equivalent is acceptable, and five years of experience in a job offered or as a Lead Programmer. Principals only.  Work Authorization required if hired. Please reference KB1104 when applying.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Job Duties:

This employee will design and develop graphics rendering and generation technologies including water surface rendering and light map systems;  Research and develop memory optimization algorithms and physics engine technologies;  Refine and improve game systems, including graphics rendering and generation systems.

Position Requirements:

Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, plus five years of experience in a job offered or as Associate Researcher.

Principals only.  Work Authorization required if hired. Please reference KB1103.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie Studios is looking for skilled programmers, be they unblooded innocents or grizzled heroes, to join our quest for world domination. Come march under our black banner and share our inevitable domination.

As an engineer on our team, you will tackle myriad technical challenges that stand in our path. You will work closely with our talented artists and designers, devising creative solutions to overcome these obstacles. You will help others realize their vision at the same time as you leave your mark on our engine. Most importantly you will be a part of an inspiring and relentless team devoted to creating the best and most technically impressive games in the world.

Essential Functions:

• Learn our game engine and expand upon its capabilities
• Work closely as part of a team to create games that are technically superior and fun to play
• Produce clean, high quality code that pushes the machine to its limit

Desired Qualifications:

• Smart, driven and adaptable
• Passionate about games and game programming
• Excited to tackle new and varied challenges
• High quality standard for personal code
• Basic understanding of algorithms, performance and optimization
• Good working knowledge of C/C++

Plusses:

• Previous console experience
• Professional C/C++ coding experience
• Expertise in a specialist area (such as mathematics, physics, networking, AI or graphics)
• Experience working in a team environment and good communication skills
• History of hobbyist game programming, mod or bot work
• A love of combat on the high seas

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie is seeking a skilled Animation Engineer to further its ongoing global conquest. We need a skilled engineer who can wield power with an iron fist -- in a velvet glove. Someone who can inspire fear, awe and wonder with the merest tap of a keyboard. Someone who can propel our animation team to greater heights with better tools, trinkets and techniques.

Essential Functions

• Work with animators, physics and AI to bring Bungie’s characters to life
• Raise the bar on fluidity of object motion in games
• Be responsible for large sections of the engine and tackle the resulting challenges and opportunities

Desired Qualifications

• Understanding of animation techniques          
• Solid foundation of animation related mathematics and physics          
• Ability to write robust, efficient and maintainable code          
• Familiarity with the workings of current animation and modeling packages  

Plusses

• Experience as an engineer on a large team          
• Previous published games          
• Console experience          
• A penchant for Piracy on the Briny Deep      

Education

• Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent experience  

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie is looking for a dangerously crafty Tools Programmer, with deadly skills in the art of Tool pipelinery to help us create, manage and implement new tools to better craft epic and terrifying monuments to the glory of gaming.

Essential Functions:

• Own the engine side of our tools pipeline to translate the artists’ and designers’ dreams into spectacular reality
• Envision and build new tools to improve the productivity of generating content

Desired Qualifications:

• Professional C/C++ coding and design experience
• Good communication and scheduling skills
• Worked on at least one console title from start to finish
• Great technical design and leadership skills
• Proven ability to design and maintain large systems
• Passion for playing and developing exceptional console games

Plusses:

• Solid math skills
• Experience with 3DS Max or Maya

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie is seeking a grizzled veteran, skilled in the arts of war and programming, to join our quest for world domination. Bring your strength to our cause, inspire awe in those around you, and make our games great. Help us conquer the beast called graphics and feast with us upon its black heart.  

Essential Functions

• Demonstrate technical excellence and lead by example while working with our team to code the fastest, cleanest graphics engine ever seen on this or any other planet.
• Be responsible for large sections of the engine and tackle the resulting challenges and opportunities
• Communicate and work well in a close-knit environment to create games that are both beautiful and fun to play
• Build a lasting foundation of flexible, maintainable code that will strike fear into generations to come

Desired Qualifications

• Professional experience programming in the game industry (3+ years), with a history of shipping quality games
• Professional experience programming in C and C++
• Experience working on console games
• Expertise in current graphics algorithms, hardware and mathematics
• Proven ability to independently design and maintain large software systems
• Solid understanding of all aspects of game programming, including physics, networking, and AI  

Plusses

• Experience as a senior engineer on a large team
• Previous published games
• Console experience
• A love of combat on the high seas  

Education

• Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent experience
  

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie Studios is now seeking an Executive Producer. Reporting directly to the Head of Production, the Executive Producer is the project champion, responsible for quality of the design realization, the delivery against milestones and adherence to budget.  The EP acts as the primary point of contact with the publisher, communicating within the team and back to Bungie leadership.  Balancing execution of the creative vision within the approved cost, resource and time budget is critical.  

Essential Functions: 

• Project champion within Bungie.
• Managing the overall production team and additional leads on the project.
• Carrying forward the vision of the Creative Director.
• Managing and approving regular milestones.
• Ensuring game is on time and within budget.
• Understanding and management of production schedule, critical path and related project risks and sensitivities.
• Manage project key risks and mitigation plans.
• Ensuring proper and timely communication of relevant issues to the project team, Bungie leadership and the publisher.          
• Responsible for adherence to and implementation of production processes.
• Producing the monthly project report.          
• Providing PR support as appropriate.         
• Awareness of publisher contract details and the impact on development.
• Responsible for the project’s overall social well-being, culture and morale.          
• Help identify the training and development of the project team.          
• Report to Head Of Production and Bungie Leadership.          
• Ensure studio compliance with company policies and procedures.  

Desired Qualifications:

An Executive Producer should have completed a minimum of two game cycles from start to finish including AAA titles, 8+ years relevant experience, leadership qualities, substantial management experience and experience working with external parties.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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