Principal Systems Designer

What You'll Do

• Design and build core systems, including progression, combat scaling, economy, and rewards, from initial definition through shippable implementation
• Partner with gameplay designers to ensure combat abilities, RPG progression, and scaling reinforce one another across the live-service lifecycle
• Build and maintain models, simulations, and tuning tools that define loot tables, costs, XP curves, and stat scaling as the game evolves
• Implement, tune, and iterate on systems directly in Unity and supporting design tools
• Create clear design documentation that enables designers, engineers, and producers to execute effectively
• Collaborate with engineering to define tools and pipelines that enable efficient systems authoring, tuning, and balancing
• Use playtest results and analytics to evaluate system performance, identify opportunities, and iterate based on evidence
• Evaluate system proposals constructively, identifying design risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities for improvement while supporting systems that can evolve with future content

What You'll Bring

• Ideally 8+ years of experience owning complex progression, economy, combat-adjacent, or related systems through development and launch or live operations
• Strong technical capability, including experience building/maintaining spreadsheets and implementing systems in Unity, Unreal, a proprietary engine, or a scripting/tools environment
• Deep understanding of RPG progression and scaling, including power curves, stat growth, gear or ability scaling, and their relationship with combat and content difficulty
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including sound judgment about the strengths and limitations of data
• Experience taking systems from initial definition through implementation, tuning, and a shippable state
• Ability to translate ambiguous design problems into clear documentation that engineering, production, and other design partners can act on
• Experience collaborating with combat, gameplay, or content designers to align progression systems with moment-to-moment gameplay
• Evidence of learning from feedback, collaborating constructively across disciplines, and staying closely involved in implementation and iteration

Bonus Points

• Experience designing systems for F2P collector games
• Experience with multiplayer action RPGs
• Experience working with licensed IP