Careers

As a Principal Graphics Engineer, you will be responsible for day to day task management, task and feature estimations, contributing your advice on the architecture for new features, and code reviews for your team. You will also be responsible for leading the effort to profile and optimize the game to reach our target frame rates on multiple platforms and resolutions with assistance from your team. You will also document the features you create so that others can use them and understand them. This is both a lead and hands on position. This role reports to the studio’s Director of Technology.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

You Should:

• • • Have 8+ years in the game industry
    • Have shipped at least one game title
    • Have experience leading a small team of engineers, including task management, prioritization of tasks and goals, architecture and API advice, and code reviews
    • Have excellent knowledge on ways to profile and optimize code and content for the CPU and GPU in a multithreaded game engine
    • Have strong knowledge of 3D mathematics and rendering pipelines
    • Have excellent knowledge of C++
    • Have excellent coding design skills
    • Be self-motivated and self-directed
    • Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Have strongly cultivated soft skills

Nice to Have:

• • • B.S. in computer science or computer engineering
    • Experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5
    • Solid debugging skills
    • Experience working with a console
    • An artistic eye for what makes good visuals

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities:

• • • Develop the technical framework, widget library, and standards for this RPG’s user interface across multiple platforms
    • Work closely with UI artists and designers to realize the game’s UI
    • Work with other engineers to help them implement UI features
    • Document UI systems so that others can use them and understand them
    • Write maintainable and performant code
    • Offer UI improvements/solutions for internal tools
    • Assist with bug fixing and polish

Requirements:

• • • Passion for good UI/UX
    • 6+ years in the game industry
    • Contributed significantly to the UI/UX for a game title that shipped
    • Excellent knowledge of C++
    • Excellent coding design skills
    • Solid debugging skills
    • Self-motivated and self-directed
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to Have:

• • • B.S. in computer science or computer engineering
    • Experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5, UMG, and Blueprints
    • Experience working with PC and consoles

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities:

• • • Manage the design team, including hiring, one-on-ones, mentorship, and reviews
    • Responsible for the growth and well-being of the design team
    • Work closely with the Creative Director to drive and design systems and content that follow the vision of the game
    • Communicate the big picture of design through documentation and presentations to a variety of audiences
    • Work with the production team to scope and plan the execution and design of features of the game
    • Advocate for the design team
    • Help nurture a culture that values authenticity, collaboration, respect, responsibility, growth, and diversity

You should bring:

• • • Experience working in product leadership on a PC/console AAA title
    • Experience playing D&D
    • An ability to maintain the big picture of the product, balanced across all disciplines
    • A proven track record of managing complex design content pipelines
    • Broad knowledge of game design with a focus on the user experience
    • Strong collaborator that is able to help rally the design team and drive features to completion
    • Knowledge about current games and industry trends
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to communicate your ideas in a concise way to set direction for a team

Nice to Have:

• • • Experience working on a recently shipped PC/console AAA RPG title
    • Experience with Unreal
    • Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Perforce

You will be collaborating with artists, designers, and programmers to architect and develop character customization standards, customization, pipelines, and processes. You will leverage UE5, MetaHuman, and MetaHuman standards to help develop the infrastructure that will be used to create a wide variety of customizable characters for both players and NPCs.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities:

• • • Architect and champion the character customization framework, pipelines, and processes
    • Work with designers, engineers, and artists to establish best practices, standards, and framework for a character creation pipeline
    • Develop layering and/or RBF techniques that enable the sharing, mix, matching, and customization of clothing and armor
    • Develop best practices and standards for facial and hair customization
    • Develop best practices and standards for body customization
    • Develop best practices and standards for outsourcing partners
    • Develop the framework for an NPC creation system for creating a wide variety of NPCs
    • Collaborate with external partners in the creation of NPC assets
    • Collaborate on performance and optimization for character assets

You should bring:

• • • Shipped at least one AAA title as a in a Technical Character Artist role
    • Familiar with rigging best practices
    • Familiar with UE5 blueprint creation or equivalent scripting experience
    • Familiar with character pipelines
    • Ability to edit/adapt materials and shaders for specific purposes
    • Comfortable with Maya
    • Comfortable with Substance Designer

Nice to Have:

• • • Marvelous Designer Experience
    • Familiarity with Zbrush and Mudbox
    • Programming experience
    • Previous RPG experience

Our ideal candidate has excellent scripting skills, experience scripting or designing gameplay content on a shipped title, and experience with Blueprints in Unreal 4/5. They should also be familiar with open-world and RPG genres and the variety of gameplay experiences they offer.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities:

• • • Design and implement gameplay scenarios using Blueprints in Unreal 5
    • Create gameplay content that’s flexible and reusable for open-world development
    • Empower different player strategies to succeed and feel awesome when completing encounters
    • Keep Blueprints and gameplay content organized and well formatted
    • Work with level design to make sure gameplay content is well-paced thematically and mechanically
    • Work with narrative design to implement quest and story content that is emotionally and mechanically satisfying

Requirements:

• • • Demonstrable scripting ability and knowledge
    • Able to implement a variety of gameplay scenarios from combat to puzzles to navigation
    • Experience as a scripter or content designer on a shipped title
    • Familiarity with Unreal 4/5
    • Familiarity with open-world and RPG genres

Nice to Have:

• • • Open-world design experience
    • Programming experience
    • Level design experience

The ideal candidate must have a strong understanding of modern game development, and a passion for problem solving and optimizing workflows and processes. A strong eye towards artistic excellence and real-time performance are a huge plus. This is an opportunity to get in on the early stages of development and set the foundation for this and future projects.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

You Should:

• • • Have 5 years in the game industry as a technical artist, or similar
    • Have shipped at least one game title
    • Have game development experience using a modern game engine such as Unreal Engine 4, or similar
    • Have a strong understanding or art creation tools and techniques, including modeling, texturing and shading, and Physically Based Rendering
    • Have a strong understanding of real-time performance and optimization for games
    • Have a strong and developed artistic eye, geared towards games and digital entertainment
    • Have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to translate between technical and artistic disciplines
    • Be self-motivated, and the ability to be self-directed

Nice to Have:

• • • Have experience with shading languages such as HLSL, GLSL, etc
    • Experience with Houdini
    • Experience with environment and character art pipelines
    • Experience with Python, C#, or C++

You’ll collaborate with animation, lighting, VFX, audio, and other related disciplines to establish a scalable workflow for real-time cinematic content creation, both linear and systemic. Define and document the desired functionality of a systemic toolchain capable of generating baseline sequencer content for a large volume of narrative content. You will establish and document cinematics best practices and studio conventions, and participate in identifying external technology needs. This role reports to the Director of Cinematics.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

You Should:

• • • Be passionate about innovating in the area of branching narrative systemic cinematics
    • Have experience supporting cinematics teams across multiple art disciplines including animation, lighting, camera, VFX, and audio
    • Have experience designing and supporting cinematics pipelines for games on multiple console & PC platforms, with at least 1 published AAA game
    • Have experience using Unreal Engine sequencer (or equivalent) on a shipped project
    • Possess technical art skills in cinematics (linear and or systemic) and related disciplines
    • Be self-motivated and self-directed
    • Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Positive attitude and a collaborative creative spirit
    • Have strongly cultivated soft skills
    • Passion for great games, with an awareness of current titles, industry trends, and understanding of the limitations of real-time cinematics

Nice to Have:

• • • Understanding of modern and classical cinematic fundamentals with an application towards establishing mood, tone, and emotion
    • Understanding of cinematic storytelling, pacing, and character development
    • Familiarity with cinematography, staging, and camerawork
    • Familiarity with Metahuman / Unreal character pipeline
    • Ability to quickly learn new tools and pipelines
    • Experience in specialized areas such as procedural cinematics and branching cinematics
    • Passion for RPGs and/or action games

The ideal candidate is passionate at creating PBR compliant materials with expert knowledge in tiling and layered material workflows, procedural texturing, and node-based material editors. This role will specialize in defining efficient processes and workflows for material use. Excellent communication skills and the ability to iterate on feedback professionally and creatively are one of your many strengths. Extra points for being comfortable with 3D asset creation using industry standard tools.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities:

• • • Create high quality, realistic textures for environment art assets using tools such as Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and Photoshop
    • Build, iterate, and maintain the studio’s PBR Substance Library to be used among the environment and outsourcing teams
    • Create Substance Smart Materials, Templates, and Material Presets to help fellow artists achieve a consistent style among assets
    • Authoring imperative texel density standards across textures, assets and UVs
    • Maintaining Substance graphs and keeping files organized and following naming conventions
    • Collaborate with Tech Art to help develop and advance our Materials and Shaders
    • Efficient at improving texture and material pipelines and sharing best practices
    • Maintain artistic style quality consistent with the visual style of the game
    • Work with Art Lead and Producers to deliver time estimates and maintain Jira management

Requirements:

• • • 3+ years experience as an Environment Artist with emphasis on material and texture creation for AAA games
    • Have shipped at least one AAA game
    • Demonstrable proficiency with authoring shaders, materials, and textures
    • Portfolio of realistic and high quality materials and procedural textures for props and environments
    • Expertise in Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Photoshop and other texture creation software
    • Excellent material and texture creation skills with understanding of modern shader usage and technical requirements
    • Solid understanding of PBR rendering and lighting with respect to materials
    • Understanding of next-gen environment art pipelines, memory limitations and perf requirements
    • Proficient with 3D modeling tools such as zBrush and Maya
    • Proactive and self-directed; able to take ownership of responsibilities that can implement high-level direction
    • Ability to create 3D models with proper UV layouts and integrate into engine
    • Excellent time management, organization, communication and documentation skills
    • Willingness to share best practices and techniques to help grow the team

Nice to Have:

• • • Experience with Unreal 4 or 5
    • Experience creating open-world games
    • Experience with Photogrammetry processes
    • Passion for fantasy RPGs and videogames
    • Familiarity with the Dungeons and Dragons franchise

The ideal candidate must have a solid understanding of modern texture authoring and material shading pipelines and their usage in Unreal Engine. You will be using your artistic and technical skills to help drive the visual development of characters to their best potential.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

You Should:

• • • Have 3 years in the game industry as a character artist, or similar
    • Have shipped at least one game title and/or worked on feature film/high-end episodic VFX development
    • Have game development experience using a modern game engine such as Unreal Engine 4, or similar
    • Have thorough knowledge of PBR-compliant materials and texture development in Unreal Engine, Mari, Substance Painter and Designer, or similar
    • Have a strong understanding of performance and memory implications of layered materials, shader complexity, and texture sizes on target platforms
    • Have a strong and developed artistic eye, geared towards games and digital entertainment with an emphasis for detail and accuracy
    • Strong communication skills, and the ability to efficiently organize and priorities work across multiple areas
    • Be self-motivated, and the ability to be self-directed
    • Ability to take direction and feedback and apply this to assets or shots; be willing to show WIP and take feedback

Duties & Responsibilities:

• • • Help create and maintain the character surfacing pipeline for in-game and cinematic assets
    • Gather and break down references into key representative surfacing elements
    • Deliver physically-based texture stacks and material libraries, and ensure all internal and outsourced character assets are compliant
    • Collaborate with character and environment artists to build out complementary material libraries, and uphold consistent quality across both disciplines

Nice to Have:

• • • Hair and fur grooming experience in XGen or Yeti
    • Digital or traditional Sculpting background
    • Shader development in A node-based system

As Senior 3D Animator: Bipedal Combat and Navigation, you will be responsible for the creation and implementation of motion capture-based combat and navigation animation sets for a wide range of Dungeons & Dragons bipedal characters.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

Requirements:

• • • Demonstrate realistic 3D biped combat and navigation animation utilizing motion capture manipulation and key frame animation skills (shown on your reel)
    • Strong understanding of combat timing and animation quality for combat video games
    • Excellent understanding of animation principals – timing, weight and staging and how they affect navigation and combat in a 3rd person gameplay character
    • Excellent Maya knowledge
    • Comfortable using UE4/5
    • Able to take animation from concept to game engine implementation
    • Strong collaborator that is able to develop branching animation workflows with other disciplines including: Engineering, Design, Concept, Character Art, and Animation Tech
    • Experience testing animation content used in game (UE4/5)
    • Shipped at least one AAA title preferred
    • Minimum 2 years of experience in game animation

Nice to Have:

• • • Directed or involved in previous motion capture sessions
    • Deep understanding of fighting styles
    • Knowledge of state machines
    • Understanding of character face animation
    • Knowledge of working with physics and procedural systems
    • Knowledge of material/vfx animation
    • A familiarity of Dungeons and Dragons
    • Experience using JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office

As Lead Key Frame Animator: Creatures, you will be responsible for collaborating with and leading a small team of internal and external keyframe animators to plan and create in game navigation and combat animation sets for iconic Dungeons & Dragons creatures. This is your chance to bring these globally beloved monsters to life!

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

Requirements:

• • • Shipped at least one AAA title preferred
    • Minimum 3-5 years of experience in game animation preferred
    • You are an exceptional key frame creature animator
    • Excellent understanding of keyframe animation principals – timing, weight and staging and how they affect navigation and combat in a 3rd person gameplay character
    • Strong communication and collaboration skills
    • Experience planning and scoping animation content
    • Experience leading a small team of internal animators
    • Experience working with outsourced animators and animation pipelines
    • Expert level Maya user
    • Comfortable working in UE4/5
    • Knowledge of state machines
    • Able to take animation from start to finish, concept to in game engine implementation
    • Strong collaborator with other disciplines including: Engineering, Design, Concept, Character Art, QA, Production and Animation Technology
    • Previous experience reviewing, testing, and providing feedback animation content used in game

Nice to Have:

• • • • Experience animating quadruped and winged game creatures shown on your reel
      • Understanding of creature face animation
      • Knowledge of working with physics and procedural systems
      • Knowledge of material/vfx animation
      • A familiarity of Dungeons and Dragons
      • Previous experience using Basecamp, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office

Gameplay strike teams are comprised of multi-disciplinary groups focused on creating gameplay features and content for a AAA, third-person, open-world fantasy RPG that will take place inside the Dungeons & Dragons franchise using Unreal Engine 5. You will be working closely with leads and team members focused on achieving the strike team’s goals.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities:

• • • Collaborate with team members in the creation and execution of production and milestone plans
    • Schedule and track team member’s effort for both features and content
    • Facilitate communication and collaboration across disciplines, strike teams, and stakeholders
    • Schedule and coordinate meetings; ensure action items are identified and completed
    • Iterate on production processes to continuously improve speed, collaboration, and team happiness

Requirements:

• • • Have a strong understanding of multi-disciplinary (art, audio, design, engineering, qa, etc.) software development processes and practices
    • Self-motivated, empathetic, clarity seeker who is able to organize people and processes
    • Exceptional communication skills and possess the ability to effectively communicate with art, audio, design, programming, and QA staff
    • Excellent organizational, prioritization skills, and attention to detail
    • Experience in a production role on one or more shipped titles with a team of 50 or greater
    • Able to write clear, succinct documentation
    • Experience with Microsoft Office, JIRA, Confluence, and other project tracking and bug database software
    • Passionate about games and creating entertainment software

Nice to Have:

• • • Experience with UE4/5
    • A game player who knows RPGs and understands trends and features
    • Experience working with outsourcing partners
    • Previous experience with Basecamp
    • Ability to effectively multi-task

As Technical Writer – Confluence Specialist, you will be working closely with a team that is developing a AAA, third-person, open-world fantasy RPG that will take place inside the Dungeons & Dragons franchise using Unreal Engine 5. You will work with a variety of users that create and use the documentation created for this project.

Hidden Path Entertainment is based in the Pacific Time Zone. Employees work a 40 hour week with daily overlapping hours of 10am to 4pm Pacific time.

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with artists, designers, engineers, and other disciplines from all walks of life who have a variety of different perspectives. Being able to navigate and thrive in this kind of environment will be key to your success. This is a full-time remote position. Post COVID, this position has the option to convert to an on-site role located in Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities:

• • • Collaborate with team members on the overall organization of both the document and image servers
    • Assist in the development of documentation standards and ensure the standards are followed
    • Continually improve documentation organization, consistency, presentation
    • Assist in the creation of documentation in collaboration with team members
    • Provide updates to team members on documentation that should be updated
    • Collaborate on the development of, champion, and maintain a user-friendly metadata tagging system that has a variety of users with different requirements
    • Audit and edit metadata tags with the goal of improving search results
    • Work with internal team members to upload, replace, and/or archive assets
    • Provide user support in the creation and location of documentation with the goal of ensuring standards are met
    • Assist with location of assets or documents upon request

Requirements:

• • • Experienced confluence user who has familiarity with most features including plugins and macro usage
    • Excellent organizational and grammar skills
    • 2 or more years working on a game development team of 50 or more
    • Self-motivated, empathetic and who approaches work with a collaborative, problem solving mindset
    • Proficiency with digital asset management systems and metadata standards
    • Strong communication skills and familiar working with admin, art, audio, design, programming, and QA staff
    • Passionate about organization and documentation
    • Passionate about games and creating entertainment software

Nice to Have:

• • • Experience with Filemaker pro tools
    • Familiarity with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, and JIRA
    • Ability to effectively multi-task