Level Designer

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🕒 June 2

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $85k - $100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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Studio Wildcard

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🎮 Gaming

Gaming

Studio Wildcard is a gaming company known for developing ARK: Survival Evolved and its sequel, ARK II. The company creates immersive survival games that thrust players into a world of primitive survival against both beast and man. In ARK II, players encounter hyper-realistic dinosaurs, aggressive alien fauna, and exotic environments on an unearthly planet. The games continue a dramatic narrative of humankind's evolution, offering a next-generation sandbox survival experience.

📋 Description

• Design and build large-scale gameplay environments in Unreal Engine 5 • Create compelling survival gameplay areas including forests, caves, ruins, mountains, rivers, and hostile zones • Block out and iterate on world layouts, traversal paths, and encounter spaces • Design exploration-focused content with hidden locations, loot routes, and environmental storytelling • Build gameplay experiences supporting crafting, taming, PvP/PvE combat, and tribe progression • Implement gameplay logic and scripted interactions using Blueprints • Collaborate with environment art teams to bring worlds from graybox to polished production quality • Optimize large open-world environments for performance and gameplay readability • Participate in playtesting and gameplay iteration

🎯 Requirements

• Professional or indie experience designing levels in Unreal Engine 5 • Strong understanding of open-world survival gameplay design • Experience creating large environments with meaningful player flow • Proficiency with Unreal Engine Blueprints • Knowledge of terrain tools, foliage systems, lighting, and world composition • Understanding of encounter pacing, risk/reward gameplay, and exploration design • Strong communication and collaborative skills • Portfolio demonstrating open-world or survival-style level design work

🏖️ Benefits

• We pay 100% of all premiums for the employee and discounted rates for dependent premiums. • Our coverage includes Medical (3 different plans to choose from), Dental, Vision, Short Term and Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401(k) option, 100% covered Parental Leave, PTO, Paid Holidays, Unlimited Sick Time, and FSA/ HSA options