Associate Systems Designer

Bethesda Game Studios
Rockville, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 1/6/2024 CLOSED ON 1/26/2024

Job Posting for Associate Systems Designer at Bethesda Game Studios

Overview

Join Constellation!

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 in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As an Associate Systems Designer, you will…

  • Assist the design and maintenance of 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 to ensure consistency, scope, and quality of content
  • Work closely with all departments (Art, Code, Design, Production) to ensure systems meet established goals
  • Regularly play game content and provide constructive feedback to fellow designers to help improve the product
  • Maintain existing content and make required bug fixes

Qualifications

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

  • You have excellent data management skills and can make sense of how that data interacts with how the game plays and feels
  • You are comfortable with programming and/or scripting languages and can make sense of other people’s code/scripts
  • You possess excellent communication and documentation skills
  • You have strong familiarity with a variety of open world games
  • You are self-driven, with a strong focus and attention to detail
  • You have experience with The Elder Scrolls Construction Set or GECK

You must provide a portfolio featuring examples of your work.

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills

  • You have professional Systems Design experience
  • You have professional programming or scripting experience
  • You have strong familiarity with BGS games

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.

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