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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:

• Own the entirety of a feature, including the user interface
• Help design and implement the architecture for interconnected core gameplay systems
• Create tools and visualizers to help tune, maintain, and test newly created systems
• Document features so that others can use them and understand them
• Assist with bug fixing and polish

Requirements:

• 6+ years in the game industry
• Shipped at least one game title
• Excellent knowledge of C++
• Excellent coding design skills
• Solid debugging skills
• Self-motivated and self-directed
• Enjoy problem solving and iterating
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to Have:

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

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:

• Lead a team of gameplay programmers
• Work closely with other discipline leads to guide development of gameplay systems and features, and communicate with other lead programmers when features span multiple areas
• Scope, prioritize, and delegate tasks
• Be able to represent your team and communicate the state of their tasks to the production team
• Contribute by prototyping and creating gameplay features
• Create and maintain technical design documents
• Be a resource to others for information about gameplay systems
• Assist with bug fixing and polish

Requirements:

• 6+ years in the game industry with at least one shipped title
• Led a team of programmers on at least one shipped title
• Passion for games and ability to think critically about gameplay
• Excellent knowledge of C++
• Excellent coding design skills
• Excellent debugging skills
• Self-motivated and self-directed
• Enjoy problem solving and iterating
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate across disciplines, explaining options and trade-offs

Nice to Have:

• B.S. in computer science or computer engineering
• (Strongly Preferred) Experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5 and blueprints
• Experience with Unreal Engine’s Gameplay Ability System
• Good working knowledge of linear algebra and algorithms
• Experience working with a console
• Interest in RPGs and/or action games

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 new graphics features and systems, and extend existing graphics technologies
    • Develop tools to help the art team achieve their AAA visual goals
    • Investigate and fix rendering defects and performance issues
    • Provide mentorship for other graphics programmers through code reviews and advice

Requirements:

• • • 6+ years in the game industry
    • Shipped at least one game title
    • Strong knowledge of current graphics APIs and shader languages
    • Strong knowledge on ways to profile and optimize code and content for the CPU and GPU in a multithreaded game engine
    • Strong knowledge of 3D mathematics
    • Strong knowledge of current rendering pipelines and techniques
    • Excellent knowledge of C++
    • Excellent debugging skills, and experience debugging crashes on the CPU and GPU
    • Self-motivated and self-directed
    • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate across disciplines

Nice to Have:

• • • B.S. in computer science or computer engineering
    • Experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5
    • Shipped a title on a console (Playstation or Xbox)

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:

• • • Lead a team of programmers
    • Develop features specific to the console platforms
    • Maintain and improve the game on the console platforms
    • Handle certification tasks for the console platforms
    • Work closely with other discipline leads to guide development of the project’s technologies, and communicate with other lead programmers when features span multiple areas
    • Scope, prioritize, and delegate tasks
    • Be able to represent your team and communicate the state of their tasks to the production team
    • Oversee the build system and internal tools, looking for ways to improve productivity
    • Assist with bug fixing and polish

Requirements:

• • • 8+ years in the game industry with at least one shipped console title
    • Led a team of programmers on at least one shipped title
    • Familiar with console platform APIs (Playstation or Xbox)
    • Excellent knowledge of C++
    • Excellent coding design and architecture skills
    • Excellent debugging skills
    • Self-motivated and self-directed
    • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate across disciplines, explaining options and trade-offs

Nice to Have:

• • • B.S. in computer science or computer engineering
    • (Strongly Preferred) Experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5 and blueprints

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

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

You should be comfortable with leading and managing teams, have a strong understanding of animation pipelines, be experienced with planning animation content, and experienced directing animation to meet the defined vision. The Animation Director will establish strategic direction and best practices to ensure capabilities align to business and development objectives. With broad experience in visual communications, you will serve as a trusted advisor for peers, partners, stakeholders and team members.

The Animation Director will work closely with a cross disciplinary team including, producers, designers, artist, animators, technical artists, art directors and other project stakeholders.

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 a passionate & compassionate leader who thrives in a collaborative environment
    • Have at least 5 years of professional AAA game development experience in a leadership role for animation teams
    • Have shipped at least 2 projects in a leadership role
    • Have experience with outsourced animation pipelines
    • Demonstrate outstanding management and communication capabilities
    • Demonstrate ability to define and manage the animation direction and roadmap for large-scale projects
    • Have experience with task creation, tracking and scheduling using a project management tools like JIRA

Responsibilities:

• • • Work with the animation team to develop vision for animation and come up with a production plan that is capable of realizing the potential of the game
    • Work closely with the Creative Director to define animation intentions, roadmaps and plans that facilitate targets for gameplay and player fantasy
    • Be the animation evangelist for the studio, representing the project and team to both internal and external agents
    • Define and maintain cohesive and inspiring animation targets and workflows that represents the right balance between visual beauty and fluid gameplay
    • Collaborate with all directors and leads to solve problems from a multi-disciplinary point of view
    • Participate in the hiring of the animation discipline
    • Mentor and facilitate growth for the animation team members
    • Conduct 1-1s with the animation team members
    • Conduct performance reviews for the animation team members

Nice to Have:

• • • shipped an RPG
    • UE4/5 experience
    • Mocap direction experience

This is a role with a lot of coordination and collaboration work. Good communication skills and a proactive mindset are very important. This is also a generalist role where you may be asked to help fill in on other areas of design, so curiosity and an eagerness to consume new ideas and learn new systems is mandatory.

The ideal candidate will have prior experience working on progression systems for an open-world RPG. You will have the ability to work with broad cross-discipline leadership in a collaborative way, manage the design and implementation of systems, and work with the production team to make high level plans for the 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.

Requirements:

• • • Have an excellent knowledge of player motivations through rewards and game progression
    • Have an excellent knowledge of the fundamentals of economies, and what make good sources and sinks
    • Have an excellent knowledge of systems design with experience building progression systems from start to finish
    • Have an excellent knowledge of power curves and game balance
    • Be very self-motivated and self-directed
    • Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Have excellent collaboration and coordination skills

Nice to have:

• • • Experience in other areas of design (UI, quest design, level design)
    • Experience implementing interfaces in Unreal Engine 4/5
    • Passion for RPGs and/or action games
    • A familiarity of Dungeons & Dragons

Our ideal candidate has a solid grasp of level design theory, previous level design experience on shipped titles, is fluent with Unreal engine, and knows what drives players to immerse themselves in vast open-world experiences. Additionally, they have great communication skills and are able to see the big picture of the 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:

• • • Lead the level design team creating gameplay spaces that are inviting to explore
    • Work with level designers, encounter designers, narrative designers, and environment artists create spaces with well-paced gameplay
    • Help establish our themes, emotions, and visual story telling opportunities for our level layouts
    • Establish and maintain our level design process, standards, and guidelines
    • Regularly play levels in development and determine next steps with the team
    • Mentor and support other designers with their skillsets and careers
    • Work with production to schedule milestones, scope features, and generate tasks for the team

Requirements:

• • • Demonstrable ability to create immersive spaces with great gameplay
    • Solid understanding of level design theory
    • Great communication skills
    • Able to see the big picture
    • Experience as a senior or lead level designer on shipped titles
    • Familiarity with Unreal 4/5
    • Up-to-date with recent open-world and RPG titles

Nice to Have:

• • • Open-world level design experience
    • Environment art experience
    • Scripting experience
    • Leadership experience

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 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

You will be responsible for creating engaging terrain that not only excel artistically, but also work as a well-crafted gameplay space. You will work closely with Tech Art and Design teams to help drive the terrain development pipeline that can attain artistic standards set by Art direction.

As senior terrain artist will be working closely with the Design Team, Technical Art Team, Environment Art Team, Art Director and other project stakeholders.

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 of experience in the game industry as an Environment Artist with at least 1 shipped AAA title or equivalent work in a related field
    • A portfolio that demonstrates thorough understanding of modern terrain making tools, surfacing and asset distribution methods and a keen eye for terrain related art
    • Have experience in creating terrain for real-time applications in Unreal Engine or similar game engines
    • Have experience with procedural terrain tools. Eg: Houdini/Gaea/WorldMachine
    • Have a deep understanding of terrain pipelines that facilitate back and forth iteration cycles between Environment Art and Design Teams
    • Have an aesthetic eye and technical proficiency in creating realistic and plausible terrain
    • Have a deep love for applying lessons learnt in nature, into the development of terrain
    • Be passionate about your work and interested in pushing the boundaries of the discipline
    • Have a strong work ethic, self-direction, and constant drive to make the game better
    • Be able to maintain positive interpersonal relationships with others
    • Be organized and able to document your work such that others can understand it
    • Make timely deliverables

Duties & Responsibilities:

• • • Create AAA quality terrain environments, and biomes as established by project art and design direction
    • Create highly polished, efficient, and visually engaging models, textures, and materials for terrain environments
    • Collaborate with designers and artists to rapidly prototype levels and test out ideas
    • Work with technical artists and engineers to refine content pipelines, develop best practices, and identify technical needs to help keep terrain creation streamlined and efficient
    • Optimize terrain for performance and memory

Nice to Have:

• • • Experience with 3d Modelling and texturing
    • Experience with SpeedTree or similar procedural vegetation packages
    • Experience with Substance suite, Quixel suite, Megascans or similar texturing/asset packages
    • Familiarity with photogrammetry, procedural content creation and PBR workflows
    • Familiarity with Confluence / JIRA / Perforce

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

Hidden Path is an inclusive, collaborative environment. You will be working with video game professionals 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. The HR Generalist will work remotely initially, supported by Hidden Path. Post-COVID, this position will be hybrid on-site in Bellevue WA/work from home.

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.

People Operations:

• • • Own onboarding process from candidate acceptance through start date and beyond to effect a highly successful employment start that engages and excites our newest employees
    • Maintain employee-related information in HR information systems and auditing for accuracy and compliance
    • Complete off-boarding process
    • Act as conduit to finance team for payroll-related changes and maintenance
    • Answer general employee questions and requests, escalating issues when appropriate
    • Maintain compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance
    • Maintain knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law

Benefits Administration:

• • • Administer employee benefits and leave, including medical, dental, and vision plans; life insurance plans; short-term, temporary, and long-term leave; disability programs; and wellness programs
    • Serve as primary point of contact for employee benefits inquiries between employees, partners, and HR
    • Partner with an external broker and internal leadership to evaluate and compare existing company benefits for competitive purposes
    • Conduct employee meetings and oversee open enrollment responsibilities for all plans
    • Serve as the internal subject matter expert on all benefits-related documentation
    • Partner with the finance team to ensure alignment and accuracy across all payroll actions associated with benefits and leave administration

Special Projects:

• • • Support HR leadership with the development of strategic programs related to employee engagement, performance management, and wellness
    • Craft internal communications as necessary

To be considered, you should have:

• • • Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field required
    • 3+ years of relevant experience in a human resources/administrative setting
    • Demonstrated success staying organized while managing multiple projects with various deadlines
    • Demonstrated trustworthiness with confidential information and a passion for data accuracy
    • A self-starter personality who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced, team-based environment
    • Knowledge of human resources processes, employment law and best practices
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills
    • A service-minded approach to work activities and assignments
    • SHRM-CP a plus