Systems Designer

Overview

Come join Bethesda Game Studios , the award-winning development team behind Starfield , The Elder Scrolls and Fallout . Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America's best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games around, we'd love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations : Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As Systems Designer, you will…

• Design and maintain our gameplay and world simulation systems, including combat balance numbers, enemy encounter statistics, player and item abilities, in-game economy values, gameplay mechanics tuning, and systemic content scripting
• Use proprietary toolset to implement data and script gameplay and content logic
• Work closely with senior systems designers and leadership to ensure consistency, scope, and quality of content
• Work closely with all departments (Art, Code, Design, Production) to ensure systems meet established goals
• Take on moderately challenging content and features and complete it with occasional supervision
• Own features or small content package as an Individual Contributor, including providing accurate scope, estimates, evaluating risks as well as the requirements needed
• Take full responsibility and test your own content thoroughly and ensure testing by other disciplines is done accurately as well
• Regularly play game content and provide constructive feedback to fellow designers to help improve the product
• Mentor junior designers with guidance and feedback
• Maintain existing content and make required bug fixes

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

You must provide a portfolio featuring examples of your work

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills

Salary Range

Systems Designer - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $55,000 - $140,000 per year.

ZeniMax has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role; the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate's primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties / requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At ZeniMax certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, such as merit increases and discretionary bonuses. These awards are allocated based on individual performance and are not guaranteed. Benefits / perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with ZeniMax and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.

This position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.

You will receive an automated email confirming we have received your resume.

Due to the high volume of applications received, it's not possible for us to respond directly to each candidate.

Don't see your desired position listed? Apply under "General Application" instead!

If you are selected, you will be contacted by our team for an initial phone screen to chat about your previous experience.

You may go through one or two phone interviews, and possibly a follow-up Skype call.

If your qualifications do not match the criteria of a current position, your resume will be kept on file.

Site Visit

The next step will be an invitation to come out and meet the team at the studio for onsite interviews.

In the event that we choose not to move forward at any point in the recruiting process, we will let you know.

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