Lediga jobb Embark Studios i Stockholm

As a Creative Tools Software engineer at Embark, you will be a part of our small R&D team, exploring technology that bridges the gap between creative intent and execution - how do we enable millions to create vast beautiful interactive worlds and express their ideas in a quick and autotelic way?

You help implementing ideas, from research to a usable tool, and you do not shy from experimenting, geting user feedback and connecting existing solutions to a bigger picture.

You may be coming from software engineering, game programming, or tool programming backgrounds. You are comfortable on projects with a long term vision and lots of detail to figure out along the way.

You are not afraid of arriving at wrong answers if they further the understanding of questions at hand.

Example of responsibilities

- Build creative tools used in creative workflows
- Read, understand, and implement methods published in academic literature
- Take a tool from a prototype to a user facing product
- Collaborate with content creators, designers, and software engineers

We would love if you have

- Advocacy for user creativity, desire to see what others do with the tools you build
- Experience with procedural content creation and/or machine learning
- Experience with modern programming languages (Rust, C++, Python, etc)
- Experience with building interactive tools for creative purposes
- Solid understanding of 3D computer graphics
- Professional English communication skills Visa mindre

You will be responsible for detailed design work on a project, turning concepts into play. Working with the team to understand goals and ideas, you are comfortable exploring and refining those ideas into practical buildable systems. Your role involves bringing your own ideas and hearing everyone else’s, and shepherding them from early prototypes to well tuned shipping gameplay.

You have played lots of games… across genres, platforms, and playstyles. You can articulate differences and similarities, and identify learnings and lessons. That knowledge helps you know when a new idea is paying off and when it should be discarded and a refinement of past approaches would be more effective. You can map a desired player feeling into systems to produce it. You are thoughtful about how all elements of a game work together to create the experience, and enjoy working with everyone on the game team to make it happen.

You are especially effective at communicating and collaborating with peers, making sure everyone feels like they can contribute to the design. Seeing it all come together for the player makes you happy.

Examples of responsibilities

- Constant interaction with rest of team, always be curious and look for new ideas
- Living, evocative, visual documentation suitable for detailed analysis with other designers or broad stroke understanding across the entire team
- Guiding a small team of developers where you prototype, build and test features

It would be awesome if you have

- Passion for and experience with high quality hands-on game building
- Experience from AAA live service games and/or F2P
- Advocacy for the player's experience and their creative involvement
- Enjoyment of creative collaboration - eager to design and share with others
- Familiarity with coding practice, art pipelines, or sophisticated systems design
- 7+ years of design work across multiple types of games
- Professional English communication skills. Visa mindre

As a machine learning engineer at Embark you will be a game maker, using machine learning to create new ways to enhance experiences in interactive entertainment.

Your passion is to surprise players with well-tuned built experiences and you know that the best way of reaching this is to be creative and interactive.

You will be spending a lot of time creating natural language interfaces, procedural generation tools, and artificial intelligence for games.

As a machine learning engineer at Embark you will of course collaborate closely with the rest of the game team and studio; together we will make sure to build that enhanced game experience that we today only can imagine.

Example of responsibilities

- Implement working applications from ML methods described in the literature
- Create ML-based tools to simplify and amplify game development
- Stay current with new research and share that knowledge with the rest of the team
- Read, understand, and improve upon methods published in the scientific literature
- If you come up with something novel, publish it!
- Collaborate with designers, content creators and gameplay software engineers

It would be awesome if you have

- A creative and curious mind passionate about machine learning
- Experience from implementing machine learning methods including neural networks and/or reinforcement learning
- Experience from generative models and from working with ML-based NLP systems
- Solid experience with Python or similar languages, and common ML frameworks
- Professional English communication skills.
- An understanding of large scale ML training systems
- The ability to be a great team player with great communication skills Visa mindre

As a Continuous Delivery Engineer at Embark you will be an enabler and force multiplier, focusing on enabling both the games themselves as well as our technical platforms.

At Embark we believe that experts in all fields should be in control of the tools they use. We also know, from experience, that high iteration speed and continuous improvements are key to achieving the high quality, polished experiences we want to provide our players. Our Continuous Delivery team is instrumental in this process.

You’ll be part of a small and passionate team with an end-to-end mission that is easy to describe, but harder to achieve: Maintain and improve our time-to-market. You’ll collaborate closely with the rest of the game team and studio to understand and eliminate friction in the creative processes.

Improving time-to-market is a very open-ended challenge, but it’s likely to include responsibilities below.

Example of responsibilities

- Collaborating with the rest of the game team to make sure we iterate on tools and processes for automated testing and automated builds
- Building and maintaining software for the management of tens of thousands of game servers
- Improving the speed with which we can deliver software to our players, both internally and externally
- Creating custom tooling and frameworks for Windows and Linux to improve workflows

It would be awesome if you have

- A creative and curious mind
- Experience from implementing Continuous Delivery
- A passion for interactive experiences, games and new technologies
- An eye for end-to-end workflow and a passion for polishing them
- Professional English communication skills.
- The ability to be a great team player with good communication skills
- Experience from working with game engines, e.g. Unreal or Unity is a plus! Visa mindre

As a Senior game software engineer at Embark you will be a dedicated game maker, working both on the games themselves as well as our technical platform.

You’ll be a driving force in how we create, manage and extend our game systems with responsibility covering multiple levels of the software stack.

Your passion is to build beautiful experiences, both for your fellow colleagues and all the gamers out there. You have analyzed how players explore and experience games, and you want to use those insights to build a future where players can be part of creating their own unique experiences.

Example of responsibilities

- Design and implement software at multiple levels of the software stack
- Create and extend game systems, Implement engaging game mechanics and game AI systems
- Help building tools and frameworks for game development
- Collaborate and mentor fellow software engineers and technical designers
- Build networking systems for multiplayer games
- Build tools and frameworks for game development
- Collaborate with designers and content creators.

It would be awesome if you have

- A creative and curious mind
- Extended experience from game development
- Extended experience from working with game engines, e.g. Unreal or Unity
- Solid experience in C++
- Professional English communication skills.
- A good grasp of performance, optimization and data structures
- The ability to be a great team player with good communication skills
- Experience from other languages such as Python, Rust, Go is a major bonus! Visa mindre

As a Back-end Engineer at Embark you will be a game maker, building a sustainable foundation for the games we produce.

You’ll be an integral part of a highly creative game team and together you’ll create and improve the high-quality, polished experiences we want to provide our players. Your role is to provide experience and solutions in the back-end and infrastructure space. As our game is distributed between game client, game server and in the cloud, you’ll work together with your team to figure out which parts of the problem to solve in which location.

At Embark we believe in creating smaller teams of well-aligned experts that can be trusted to create games and keep them running.

Example of responsibilities

- Collaborate and work closely with fellow software engineers and technical directors
- Build and improve services, features and tools for game development
- Continuously improve our engineering practises
- Make sure your code adds a great amount of value to your comrades

It would be awesome if you have

- A passion for interactive experiences, games and new technologies
- A solid understanding about distributed systems and experience building them
- A solid understanding about Site Reliability Engineering practices and what it takes to keep services running smoothly around the clock
- The ability to be a great team player with good communication skills
- A good grasp of performance, optimization and data structures
- Professional English communication skills. Visa mindre

As a Production Director at Embark you will be a dedicated game maker, executing on the games roadmap and goals.

You’ll be part of a cross-functional game team where you will set and communicate goals, create and improve structure and processes and facilitate the day to day work to ensure team productivity.

You have a passion for removing obstacles, solving problems and making sure things get done!

You know that experimenting is a gamble. But you have a knack for choosing the smartest route, and you know when it’s time to declare success or failure. You make sure to balance meaningful innovation with executing best practices.

Example of responsibilities

- Establish and execute on the product roadmap and goals
- Process: Facilitation of day-to-day, establish and improve way of working
- Ensure team productivity and focus
- Providing transparency on project status and risks to stakeholders
- Publisher communications
- Resource plans and hiring
- Project budget

It would be awesome if you have

- Extensive experience from Producer/Project Manager roles and some of that experience in the games industry
- Extensive experience from agile development methods in a cross-functional team environment, preferably from a variation of settings
- Project management skills including budget, schedule, resource planning and risk management
- Experience from successfully completing and shipping customer-facing products
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- An organised, detail oriented and self-motivated personality
- A pragmatic mindset and ability to motivate individuals and teams
- F2P and/or AAA games knowledge Visa mindre

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our passionate team here at Embark. As a Recruiter at Embark you’ll work closely with our Hiring Managers, but also have several other points of contact in the company. You will mainly be responsible for technical recruitments.

We’re working in an industry that’s growing and constantly evolving, and we need your help to stay on-top of the game by finding and attracting some of the best talent out there. By being the first point of contact for our candidates, you will be an Embark ambassador who is always keen on building and maintaining a network within the industry.

Our people are our strongest and most important asset, meaning that we take great pride in perfecting our recruitment process and carefully assessing our candidates. We applaud new, innovative ideas and want you to join our journey in building and growing this company. In this function you’ll report to the Head of Talent Acquisition.

Example of responsibilities

- The technical industry is competitive, so finding and attracting top talent will be a key component in this role
- Together with Hiring Managers, define and drive the recruitment strategy for your business areas
- Close collaboration with hiring managers
- Organizing and participating in employer branding activities; such as industry related events, career fairs, meet-ups, etc
- Interviewing candidates, checking references, presenting offers
- Identify, recommend and drive improvements
- Employer branding and university relations activities for your area
- Administrative tasks, scheduling meetings, keeping our ATS up-dated

It would be awesome if you have

- Bachelor's degree or similar preferred
- 3+ years previous experience as a Recruiter and/or Headhunter
- Experience with technical recruitment. I.e., technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements for technical roles
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and preferably Swedish. You are service minded with the ability to communicate with candidates and business leaders at all levels
- An interest in the gaming and tech industry
- A can-do attitude
- A skilled networker who enjoys meeting new people Visa mindre

At Embark we are building experiences from scratch.

As our Telemetry Software Developer you will be the one owning performance driven development.

You’ll be spending your time maintaining and running robust, high performance telemetry data pipelines for the game, and work hand in hand with the game developers, the designers and the Analytics team to exceed user expectations.

Example of responsibilities

- Build, implement and run our event-based telemetry system.
- Support game development teams in analysis and custom tooling, both real time and daily reports.
- Ensure coherent measurements for business KPI.
- Be in charge of telemetry metadata governance.
- Work in BigQuery, pubsub, go, C++/Rust, kubernetes.

It would be awesome if you have

- a creative and curious mind
- experience in working with event-based telemetry systems
- extensive experience working with “Big data” (Hadoop, BigQuery, etc) and “Real time” event processing (Pubsub / Kafka)
- worked with metadata governance
- written visualisation and management tools for custom analysis and KPIs.
- Professional English communication skills. Visa mindre

As a UX artist at Embark, your job is to enable amazing user experiences for our gamers, experiences that they will remember and talk about for decades. Here you will work closely together with other talents to create everything from 2D elements, branding material, HUD, to living and inviting scenes with 3D components.

If you like to spend time thinking about how players explore and experience games, and perhaps you also imagine a future where players can be part of creating their own unique experiences, then Embark might be your future home.

Example of responsibilities

- Collaborate with a wide range of talents at Embark to deliver a great user experience
- Create aesthetically delightful visuals that enhances the gameplay experience
- Evaluating different software, techniques, engines and pipelines and help us get better and change how we work in the future

We would love if you have

- A creative and curious mind
- Minimum 3 years of relevant professional art experience
- A strong passion for art, design and games
- Excellent visual skillset and deep artistic understanding and knowledge
- Experience of following directions and deliver to quality from a visual, game play and technical perspective
- Professional English communication skills Visa mindre

Creating experiences is magical... but everyone should be able to do it! We are trying to realize this dream by creating games, communities, and building empowering technologies. If you are passionate about our mission, bring your expertise, enthusiasm and ridiculous ideas.

Everyone at Embark contributes as game makers and culture creators. Your willingness to fail and learn with us, and enjoy it, is essential to our success.

Overview

Working with marketing at Embark you will establish a function that helps create living and dynamic game experiences along with marketing the same. We are a new studio and this is an opportunity for you to utilize your experience and entrepreneurship to establish and grow a function organically and through partnerships.

We expect you to be a visionary marketeer, but one of those that is interested in the hands-on aspects of marketing as much as building an organisation for the same. We think that for the first six, eight months or so you will be a hands-on contributor in this role and then start to build out the function organically.

Examples of responsibilities

- Develop and execute the Go-To-Market strategy for Embark’s games
- Champion the product brands for our games
- Champion our games to partners and platform holders
- User acquisition strategy and execution
- Own strategy across marketing channels in all international markets & execute campaigns across SEM, SEO, Social, YouTube, Display, and other channels
- Optimize campaigns as well as analyze results to help us determine how and where budget should be allocated
- Gain understanding of local interests and tastes in order to develop and execute region specific marketing initiatives
- Work closely with other teams to share learnings from marketing and apply learnings from other teams to campaigns within your channels
- Manage marketing creative requests by working closely with creative team

It would be awesome if you have some of these

- Free2play and/or digital entertainment experience
- Experience from publishing/self-publishing of Free2Play games
- Experience from collaborating with games creatives on storytelling and business models
- Analytical, results-driven, and detail-oriented and the ability to tell a story using campaign results
- Demonstrated ability to think globally (experience with international marketing and/or working with international teams to develop region specific marketing strategies)
- Experience managing multiple priorities and initiatives across various teams at different stages of growth
- Excited by a fast-paced environment and passionate about entertainment and/or the online video space
- Game maker mindset, a desire to create magical experiences and to explore the unknown
- And of course you like games as much as we do!

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, a generous profit sharing program and a journey into the unknown, to build more creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together. Visa mindre