Full-Time Expert Combat Designer

CD PROJEKT RED is hiring a remote Full-Time Expert Combat Designer. The career level for this job opening is Expert and is accepting Boston, MA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.

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CD PROJEKT RED

Job Title

Expert Combat Designer

Posted

Career Level

Full-Time

Career Level

Expert

Locations Accepted

Boston, MA

Job Details

CD PROJEKT RED is looking for an Expert Combat Designer to help drive the vision and implementation of the combat experience for Project Sirius. You will take on everything from pitching enemy and weapon types to placing I-Frames and damage volumes, tweaking damage-scales, etc. You will work across disciplines to make our game’s combat fun, satisfying and scalable.
Responsibilities:
  • Work on key systems such as: targeting, combat metric, input queuing, player abilities and progression, aggro management, enemy behavior tree, enemy ambient behavior, and balancing.
  • Develop and refine our approach to combat and foundational combat systems.
  • Pitch, prototype, implement, balance and ship a wide variety of enemy types, including core enemies and bosses.
  • Tune the combat experience at the micro level: animation lengths, i-frames, damage volumes, etc.
  • Implement each character type’s combat behavior using techniques such as behavior trees, animation graphs and blueprint.
  • Work with character art, animation, VFX and audio to ship characters with state-of-the-art levels of polish.
  • Help balance combat-related systems such as player leveling and experience, weapons, and damage.
  • Produce documentation to communicate your proposals and designs.
Requirements:
  • 7+ years of professional experience in the game industry.
  • Prior experience shipping a core game as a combat designer.
  • Experience in developing third person action games.
  • Curiosity, kindness, and a positive and professional can-do attitude.
Nice to Haves:
  • Scripting experience (Blueprint, Python, Lua, or C#)
  • Unreal Engine 5 experience
  • Experience working with motion capture

FAQs

What is the last date for applying to the job?

The deadline to apply for Full-Time Expert Combat Designer at CD PROJEKT RED is 14th of September 2025 . We consider jobs older than one month to have expired.

Which countries are accepted for this remote job?

This job accepts [ Boston, MA ] applicants. .

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