Concepteur(trice) Technique Senior | Senior Technical Designer

Senior Technical Designer

NBCUniversal is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Designer to help drive the development of cutting-edge gameplay and open-world systems using Unreal Engine 5+. In this role, you'll architect scalable gameplay frameworks, collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, and lay the technical foundation for a growing tech-design team. Your work will directly shape player experience and systemic depth in a highly dynamic and ambitious project.

Responsibilities:

• Design, prototype, and maintain core gameplay systems with a strong emphasis on scalability and modularity.
• Develop open-world mechanics that support emergent gameplay and robust player interaction.
• Implement and optimize State Tree-based logic for systemic world content.
• Collaborate with programmers, designers, and artists to integrate gameplay features across disciplines.
• Build and document reusable frameworks to accelerate future tech-design work.
• Prepare a clean, extensible foundation for onboarding and enabling additional technical designers.
• Contribute to long-term technical planning and system architecture decisions.
• Support performance and network-aware design practices from the outset.

Basic Qualifications:

• Design, prototype, and maintain core gameplay systems with a strong emphasis on scalability and modularity.
• Develop open-world mechanics that support emergent gameplay and robust player interaction.
• Implement and optimize State Tree-based logic for systemic world content.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and artists to integrate gameplay features across disciplines.
• Build and document reusable frameworks to accelerate future tech-design work.
• Prepare a clean, extensible foundation for onboarding and enabling additional technical designers.
• Contribute to long-term technical planning and system architecture decisions.
• Support performance and network-aware design practices from the outset.

Desired Characteristics:

• Understanding of performance optimization techniques on large-scale open worlds.
• Exposure to cross-platform development and live game pipelines.
• Experience mentoring or onboarding technical design staff.
• Experience with programming gameplay systems and building designer tools, using Blueprint, C++, Python.
• Understanding of user experience and product design.
• Familiarity with data-driven and procedural content workflows.

Additional Requirements:

• Hybrid position (minimum 3 days per week in office).
• Located in or willing to relocate to Montreal, Canada.