Jr. Serious Games Designer - Military veterans preferred

Description

SAIC is looking for a new Jr. Serious Games Designer to support the Orlando office. 

Responsibilites:

•    Use the Unity engine to design and implement well-engineered, reliable, maintainable, and bug-free code
•    Collaborate with team members to design and develop various gameplay or other systems
•    Design and test systems as directed
•    Follow best practices, development processes, and standards
•    Document and peer review  designs with other designers
•    Work with QA, providing information needed to fully test developed systems
•    Keep up to date on state-of-the-art methods, practices, and technologies
•    Communicate with other team members and internal customers
•    Work well together with other team members in a cooperative, cross- disciplinary team environment
•    Identify technical and developmental risks/obstacles and generate solutions to overcome identified risks
•    Demonstrated ability to self-manage and effectively work remotely from customers and with other team members
•    Possess and develop areas of design expertise

Qualifications

Education:
    •    Bachelor and 5 years or more experience; experience in lieu of degree is acceptable

Requirements:

    •    Experience with Unity and/or Unreal game engine
    •    Strong design skills relating to immersive interactive virtual experiences 
    •    A passion for making and playing games, particularly Serious Games
    •    Work well in a cooperative environment
    •    Can take verbal direction to design and document game features and systems
    •    Strong organizational and communicational skills
    •    Agile development experience

Desired:
    •    Serious Games development experience
    •    Mobile platform experience
    •    Unity UI and/or Bolt experience
    •    Experience using the Atlassian suite (Confluence and Jira)
    •    Strong logical and problem-solving skills