Technical designer

DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment), the award-winning studio based in Stockholm, Sweden, is best known for creating the phenomenally successful Battlefield franchise, the Star Wars: Battlefront franchise, and the very creative game Mirror's Edge.

We work through our 4 guiding values: Passion with Purpose, Creative Innovation, Everything Quality, and One Community. Our people are the backbone and driving force to our creative products. As such, we are dedicated to providing everyone the chance to express themselves and be their very best with a common cause.

What you will do

Support the team by developing systems that helps the designers with practical implementation and understanding the Technical Design Direction and the Creative Direction. Help the wider design team with technical solutions in the engine, workflows and tools.

You will report to the project Technical Design lead and work towards a mastery of Frostbite, learning how everything works and won't shy away from deep diving into new or undocumented systems.

Needed experience

• Experience in design processes, content creation, engines, tools and pipelines
• Visual scripting-languages experience
• Experienced in Unity or Unreal. Frostbite experience would be good
• Experience with code languages formatting, no programming experience needed
• Experience in cross disciplinary collaboration and bridging between creatives and engineers
• Well versed in modern game design trends and how they function

Responsibilities

• Must speak up and communicate any concerns regarding a potential mismatch between goals and practical reality. Can this be done? How hard is it?
• Manage the implementation and/or designing of systems, solutions or workflows that can be used by other designers
• Set best practices and guidelines for content implementation in the project with quality, performance and stability in mind
• Review and evaluate performance and memory budgets across the board
• Provide technical feedback to the designers
• Coach both new and experienced designers to the engine and the scripting standards

Typical Tasks:

• You will identify problems and find solutions
• You will support and guide other team members, first point of escalation for designers and programmers
• You will lead the development/researching of new workflows and setting up example data for other technical designers/designers
• You will maintain and own systems or solutions during production
• You will review design, content and the game to ensure consistency, quality and compliance with performance goals, memory budgets and standards
• You will review incoming bugs within the technical designer team to stay on top of any issues
• You will manage one or more specific areas, UI, game modes, AI, soldiers, weapons, or vehicles
• You will often implement scripting or game design work when needed during parts of production