Level Designer (4-month contract)

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    {
      "text": "Responsibilities",
      "content": "<div>\n\n<li>\n<p>Collaborate with art, engineering, and production to support and implement the established creative vision, raising questions or inconsistencies as they arise during development</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Work within production schedules and constraints, implementing level content in a timely and iterative manner while communicating risks or dependencies to appropriate team members</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Design and build levels end-to-end, including layout, combat encounters, traversal, pacing, player flow, and objectives</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Create and implement tactical combat spaces that support flanking, cover usage, squad coordination, sightlines, and multiple approaches to objectives</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Script and set up gameplay events, encounters, AI behaviors, triggers, and environmental interactions to support mission functionality and player experience</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Test, debug, and iterate on levels regularly, identifying and resolving issues related to navigation, combat balance, progression blockers, readability, and edge cases</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Respond constructively to feedback, refining layouts, encounters, pacing, and mission flow to improve clarity, challenge, and overall player experience</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Maintain an understanding of core gameplay systems and AI behaviors, adjusting layouts and encounters to support tactical gameplay and multiple player approaches</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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      "text": "Requirements",
      "content": "<div>\n\n<li>\n<p>A minimum of 5 years of experience contributing to game development, with a strong focus on level design within action, shooter, or combat-focused games</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Experience shipping at least one title, ideally within the shooter space, with an understanding of the full content lifecycle from implementation through polish</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Comfort working independently on assigned content, with the ability to manage tasks, iterate on feedback, and solve implementation problems in a dynamic production environment</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to work closely with other designers, artists, engineers, and audio partners to deliver cohesive gameplay experiences</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Familiarity with level editing and gameplay scripting in Unreal, with confidence building, debugging, and maintaining gameplay spaces directly in-engine</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Strong understanding of combat space design, player navigation, encounter pacing, and environmental readability</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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      "text": "Pluses",
      "content": "<div>\n\n<li>\n<p>A passion for military fiction, tactical shooters, and squad-based gameplay</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Appreciation for systemic gameplay and how level design supports multiple tactical approaches and emergent combat scenarios</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>An interest in cinematic mission design, including staging, composition, scripted moments, and environmental storytelling</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Care about polish, clarity, and player comprehension, and enjoy iterating on spaces to improve navigation, combat readability, and overall gameplay experience</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Curiosity about how level design, AI, and systems intersect to create cohesive, replayable combat experiences rather than isolated encounters</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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