Senior Sandbox Designer

Job title: Senior Sandbox Designer

About the Role Join a cross-disciplinary team to design, craft, and implement a robust AI system for a new multiplayer action game. You will contribute to NPC AI enemies, player objectives, and core systems like navigation, perception, behavior, and combat prioritization, helping shape a future PlayStation franchise.

What You'll Do

• Act as an active member of a cross-discipline small team building new AI enemies, player objectives, and core systems enabling future AI (navigation, perception, behavior, combat prioritization).
• Create and balance a suite of active and passive player items to extend and amplify player base kits and act as meaningful inter-match upgrades.
• Review content created by multiple disciplines, providing feedback to ensure readable, best-in-class game feel, and compelling fantasies.
• Create and maintain endearing characters that uphold IP quality, consistency, and sandbox design principles.
• Work with audio, effects, 3D and animation to make in-game gameplay affordances clear to players.

What We're Looking For

• Intuitive understanding of how second-to-second action games work and why people play them.
• Fluency for collaboration with designers, artists, programmers, audio professionals, QA and producers to achieve a common goal, with adaptability for a flexible work environment.
• Broad T-shaped rapid prototyping skills, with strong technical scripting ability and enough multi-disciplinary knowledge to quickly stub out gameplay ideas to evaluate their potential.
• Strong understanding of combat animation; experienced in discussing anticipation, follow through, character and timing, and their impact on game readability and balance.
• Proven ability to build alignment and productively own feature direction without sacrificing empathy and collaboration with team contributors.
• Ability to operate autonomously and handle ambiguity, including giving and receiving feedback despite that ambiguity.
• Understanding of PvP game design and balance, getting the challenge level right for a wide variety of situations.
• Understanding of how systemically consistent, combinatoric game design can create player surprise and laughter.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.