Technical Designer-Vicarious Visions

Albany, New York

Technical Designer

Vicarious Visions, developer of numerous award winning games, including Skylanders Spyro Adventure, Guitar Hero: On Tour, Tony Hawk, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is seeking a passionate, motivated, and experienced Technical Designer to join our team of talented developers in creating next generation games for the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii platforms.

Role Description:


  • Participates with engineering and technical artists in setting requirements for content editing and event scripting tools, and providing feedback for their improvement.
  • Liaison between Design and other disciplines
  • Diagnose and resolve technical issues related to design tools and asset creation
  • Help designers optimize their workflow
  • Communicate technical problems to engineering
  • Help identify and design new design tools
  • Maintain technical design documentation for tools and pipelines
  • Maintain design tools and scripts
  • Help to define and maintain production pipeline, process, and workflow
  • Track down problems in current systems, predict problems in developing systems, produce test cases and implement fixes in systems and tools.
  • Technical / code Reviews, Naming Conventions
  • Resolve System Conflicts
  • Technical Writer
  • Cross training responsibility

Skills/Qualifications:

  • Minimum two years experience in a game design role is expected
  • Multiple programming languages: one of C/C++/C#/Java to a reasonable knowledge required
  • Multiple game systems and editors: variety of knowledge is considered more important that being a power user of one
  • Technical Degree(CS, IT, SE, CE, or equivalent work experience)
  • Multiple published projects across a variety of genres and platforms is expected
  • Understanding of work flow and time constraints
  • Proven ability to interface with Art and Engineering teams
  • Experience on game preproduction at least and R&D phase preferred
  • QA experience would be a big plus
  • Some ability and experience with technical writing will be needed as well
  • Problem solver, sociable, information sharer

 

Come work with us on our exciting new titles! We offer a modern work environment, an outstanding compensation and benefits package, a fun, team environment, impressively affordable living, and an exceptional quality of life! Please apply at

www.vvisions.com