Bungie Studios is looking for an exceptional concept artist who will work closely with the Art Director and Art Leads to establish a style and feel for the environments, characters and objects for exciting new Bungie 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.

Essential Functions

• Lead and manage a team of concept artists.
• Work collaboratively with the Art Director and other Art Leads to help shape and communicate the vision of our game.
• Inspire and motivate the team by creating high-quality concepts that clearly illustrate the characters and their environments.
• Develop concepts, style guides and documentation throughout the course of the project.
• Serve as a mentor to colleagues, providing guidance, constructive feedback, and coaching to enhance their efforts.

Desired Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Concept Artist.
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Professional attitude and an ability to take constructive criticism.
• Excellent concept art skills in both character and environmental area with an eye for perspective, color, lighting, and atmosphere.
• 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.
• AA/BFA preferred, or at least demonstrates through portfolio an industry standard level of art.
• Experience working with offsite team members/outsourcing 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 dream about creating worlds imbued with real value and consequence? Can you find the fine line between a reward that encourages players to have fun and an incentive that enslaves them? Can you devise a way for a player to grow while preserving the delicate balance of an action game? If you answered yes to these questions (and you are a passionate work-a-holic game-o-phile) you might want to polish up your resume and apply to be Bungie’s next Player Investment Designer.

A Player Investment Designer develops a robust and rewarding investment path, supported by consistent, rich and secure incentives that drives player behavior toward having fun and investing in their characters, and then validates those systems through intense simulation, testing and iteration.

Responsibilities

• Designing mechanics which drive in-game player reward and incentives.
• Give players long-term goals to invest them in the world and their character.
• Prevent by design griefing or exploiting any of the above systems.
• Run simulations of these mechanics based on expected player behavior.
• Test these simulated results against actual player behavior and tuning the live system.

Qualifications

• Experience with many modes of online play .
• Experience with online incentives (achievements, rewards, economic, etc) and a passion for understanding what drives player behavior within them.
• Solid math skills.
• A thirst for problems to solve.
• Command of Microsoft Excel.
• Outstanding organizational skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to work well under deadlines.
• Ability to work well 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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Are you a kick-ass writer? Have your stories occupied players' imaginations for days, weeks -- years on end? Can you inspire artists to create whole worlds and races of creatures with a few, quality keystrokes? Do you strive for emotional imperviousness to constructive editorial, and have a burning desire to build a team of writers made of similar stuff? Then read on...

Responsibilities

• Histories and legends, combat dialog, weapon descriptions &c. Your words will help define Bungie's next game universe
• Work for and collaborate with a Design Director responsible for all aspects of storytelling
• Mentor and manage a team of internal and external writers

Requirements

• Exceptional creative writing skills, especially in service of vivid, complex, memorable characters
• Minimum 5 years game industry experience or two, shipped AAA games; branching or non-linear narrative experience a plus
• Solid track record of team leadership
• Excellent design and artistic sensibilities; straight-up mission or character design experience a plus
• High level of comfort in a collaborative writing process; solitary scribes need not apply
• Zero desire to parlay your game writing experience into a film, TV show, novel &c.

Still interested? Then we're interested in you. Please email us your resume along with a writing sample totaling no more than 1,500 words. Writing samples should show the breadth of your ability, and, as such, can be comprised of as many different kinds of writing as you like e.g., cinematic scenes, dialog spreadsheets, two line item descriptions &c.

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 run through the seven stages of interaction every time you start your car? When you buy a new gadget, do you think aloud as you use it for the first time? Do you have nightmares about the peanut butter theory of user interface design? Do you have the guts to argue that the user interface is the most important feature of a game? Do you love Clippy jokes? If so, you just might be the ideal candidate to become Bungie's next User Interface Design Lead.

As Bungie's User Interface Design Lead, your goal will be to design a consistent, rich, and logical architecture for our UI across all platforms and portals, and then realize that goal as you drive it through production. You will communicate your designs through documentation, flow designs, and functional prototypes. You will collaborate with our graphic artists to design and deliver a rich and interesting experience, and with our designers to ensure intuitive integration with the in-game experience. You will work closely with all departments as you drive your design through all phases of production. You will collaborate with User Research to test that our UI is ultimately accessible and user friendly. You will work with the Test and Localization teams so that our UI designs are localization friendly and platform compliant. Thus, taking us all one step further toward world domination, and a useful paperclip.

Responsibilities

• Lead our UI team of designers and artists.
• Establish a consistent visual and logical UI across all platforms and portals.
• Create user flow diagrams, example screens, rough animatics and other simple prototypes.
• Design a functional and attractive in-game interface (HUD).
• Specify and implement an intuitive and easily navigable game shell UI.
• Create a suite of components for all other game-related UI.

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.
• 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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Do you count mouse clicks and key gestures, searching for just the right way to improve productivity by 10%? If you think of user interfaces, game loops, databases, web services, serialization and content pipelines as natural partners just waiting to be chained together, then you belong on our tools team.

Essential Functions

Bungie needs a tools programmer to build software for its artists, designers, testers and engineers to use to make awesome games. You will work with just about everyone in the studio to make their lives better and streamline their workflow. From building level editors to wrangling data formats, this position involves a breadth of technology and feature areas almost unheard of elsewhere in software development.

Essential Qualifications

• Familiar with C#/.NET.
• Experience developing in & maintaining large codebases.
• At least 1 year experience with C++.
• Strong cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration skills.
• Enthusiastic about working with designers and artists.
• Strong personal time-management skills, capable of working in an open environment with regular interruptions for customer service needs.
• Passion for tool development.
• Interest in user interface development.

Other Qualifications

• Development experience with 3DStudio Max and/or Maya.
• Previous game development experience.
• 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 an experienced developer of server-side software to create and maintain scalable services to communicate with our games and our internal development tools. The Developer will generally use C# and SQL Server, authoring new tools and services and maintaining and expanding existing ones. Existing databases in this toolset have reached 50 billion rows, and 89,000 transactions/sec, so a firm understanding of performance and scalability is essential.

Essential Functions

• Design scalable, reusable software pipelines for processing and exposing large quantities of data with the flexibility to adapt to changing interfaces as the game code evolves at the same time as the toolset.
• Write clean, well-designed C# code to implement these original designs as well as to fit in to existing tools that need to grow over time.
• Design and implement databases that scale without predetermined limit.
• Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where future projects can benefit from its use.
• Work with the Operations team to ensure stable performance of user-facing server features in the datacenter.

Desired Qualifications

• 3+ years experience with C# and SQL Server.
• Experience with .Net Web Services or WCF.
• Experience writing and shipping production server code preferred.
• Solid understanding of database performance and tuning.
• Strong familiarity with Windows server platforms.
• Ability to do self-directed work as well as work alongside a team of other developers.
• Working knowledge of C++.
• Passion for making great games.
• Bachelors Degree in CS or related field.

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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Plan, deploy, and maintain complex environments as Bungie’s Senior IT Engineer. We’re looking for candidates who can solve bizarre problems and tackle unusual technology related requests by employing the deadly art of Datacenter-fu.

Key Functions

• Support, design and build out technology to support the development and production environments for Bungie’s games.
• Work with team members to troubleshoot complex issues and work with lower tier support on escalations.
• Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where our projects and environments can benefit from its use.

At least 5 years experience in supporting the following:

• Experience managing mid to large projects over weeks/months including scheduling, budget, and resource coordination.
• Knowledge of datacenter and live production best practices and experience working in live high availability customer facing production environments.
• Experience working multiple vendors to select and test new technology, including sourcing demo and trybuy gear.
• Active Directory in a multi-domain environment. Administrator experience with group policies, replication, group membership, backup and restores, scripting AD objects, building new domains.
• Network maintenance and support. Experienced on Cisco IOS with VLANs, spanning-tree, and dynamic routing protocols. Setting up syslog alerts, SLB, VRRP, ACLs. Able to quickly learn new vendor OS's.
• Firewalls and proxies. Able to configure ISA, Juniper, and Cisco firewalls.
• Backup infrastructure. In-depth experience with backup technologies. Experienced with 3rd party backup vendors such as BackupExec or CommVault.
• Microsoft Windows troubleshooting. Experienced resolving issues related to hardware or application faults. Able to use built-in and 3rd party tools to identify bottlenecks and faults.
• Storage experience, SAN/NAS configuration and implementation.

Essential Qualifications

• SQL
• Exchange
• Active Directory
• Cisco routers and switches
• IIS
• Server monitoring
• VPN and Firewall setup
• Backup and recoveries

Other Required Qualifications

• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Experience in speccing and implementing wan and alternate backhaul technologies (fiber, microwave, satellite).
• Electronic security system deployment and configuration (cardkey, smartcard auth)
• VOIP technology experience, including teleconferencing.

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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Create, champion, and control some of the most load-intensive server-side game features the world has ever witnessed by taking on the role of a Senior Server Programmer at Bungie. Previous experience might include platform-wide Matchmaking services that successfully dispatched hundreds of thousands of concurrent combatants or massive back-ends that cut a brutal swath through a merciless horde of high-load multiplayer features. If you accept our challenge, you WILL be responsible for design and implementation of multiple large, awesomely innovative features. Proven ability to work in code and databases of your own design is essential. Godspeed.

Essential Functions

• Work across disciplines to determine the desired behavior of server-side game features.
• Design highly scalable systems with the flexibility to adapt to evolving game design.
• Write clean C# code to implement these original designs.
• Design and implement databases that scale without predetermined limit.
• Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where our projects can benefit from its use.
• Work with the Operations team to ensure stable performance of your features in the datacenter.

Desired Qualifications

• 6+ years game development experience.
• 4+ years experience with C# and SQL Server.
• Experience with .Net Web Services or WCF.
• Experience writing and shipping production server code for a large-scale online game or platform.
• Solid understanding of database performance and tuning.
• Strong familiarity with Windows server platforms.
• Ability to do self-directed work as well as work alongside a team of other developers.
• Working knowledge of C++.
• Passion for making great games.
• Bachelors Degree in CS or related field.

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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