Jobs at 2K

Conduct player-centered UX research for video games through lab and remote playtests, research planning, study design, survey and qualitative data analysis, competitive analysis, and research reporting. Collaborate with research, data science, community, QA, development, and publishing teams. Maintain research repositories and dashboards, build partner relationships, and provide insights that inform game development.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance C/C++ graphics code and HLSL shaders for NBA 2K. Implement rendering technologies, optimize GPU performance, improve VFX, lighting, and post-processing, collaborate with art and design teams, and support system-wide rendering technology upgrades.

Designs, maintains, and optimizes body and facial character rigs for gameplay and cinematics. Builds skinning, asset-binding, facial, mocap-processing, and animation database pipelines, while developing rigging tools and integrating character assets into Unreal Engine. Collaborates with animation, art, and engineering teams to ensure high-quality, usable, and runtime-efficient character systems.

Designs, balances, and implements gameplay systems including progression, economies, rewards, stats, and game modes. Tunes systems using feedback, metrics, and playtests; analyzes systemic outcomes; documents design logic and balancing guidelines; and collaborates with engineering, art, production, and design teams. The role supports player agency, emergent storytelling, meaningful trade-offs, and long-term engagement in a large-scale sports game.

Design and implement user experiences for video game UI systems, ensuring players can understand and navigate menus, HUDs, controls, tutorials, and gameplay feedback. Collaborate with UX, UI art, UI code, and game design teams; establish UX, accessibility, typography, layout, and control standards; document designs; support UI testing; address usability issues; and prototype UI elements in the game engine. The role supports AAA game development, particularly Unreal Engine and first-person shooter titles.

Designs and implements user experiences for video game UI systems, including menus, HUDs, controls, tutorials, feedback, accessibility, and player flows. Collaborates with UX, UI art, UI code, and game design teams; creates documentation and prototypes; supports playtesting; and helps maintain cohesive standards across projects. The role requires experience shipping AAA games, preferably using Unreal Engine, with potential mentoring responsibilities.

Expert technical artist responsible for character body and facial rigging for NBA 2K. Duties include improving deformation, building math node networks, implementing blendshapes and corrective shapes, creating skinweight maps, writing Python automation, debugging rigging issues, collaborating with engineers and art teams, and improving documentation and pipelines.

Design and implement AI systems for a AAA sports game using Unreal Engine 5 and C++. Build team-based decision-making, play selection, formations, tactics, positional awareness, and realistic player behavior. Optimize performance in multithreaded environments, collaborate with designers and animators, write tested code, conduct reviews, and mentor engineers.

Designs and maintains automated data quality checks for game telemetry, player events, and backend systems. Monitors pipelines, detects anomalies and schema changes, defines data quality standards and SLAs, investigates root causes, and builds dashboards and alerting. Collaborates with engineering, analytics, and product teams on event instrumentation, data lineage, privacy compliance, and reliable datasets for strategic decisions.

Manage and deliver a game area by partnering with design, engineering and art. Plan, prioritize, track progress, remove roadblocks, build Jira/Flow workflows, decompose long-term efforts into milestones, communicate roadmaps and risks, and maintain team structure and morale to meet quality and schedule goals.

Lead development of a global brand strategy for a new sports gaming franchise. Define identity, audience segmentation, market prioritization, campaign leadership, agency management, in-game brand integrations, cross-functional collaboration, team management (direct reports), brand governance, and budget oversight to deliver culturally resonant marketing and measurable brand growth.

Lead Polish localization strategy and quality across 2K titles. Own glossaries, style guides, cultural risk mitigation, LQA escalation, VO casting/production, and cross-functional alignment. Review and sign off on in-game text, UI, scripts, and marketing content while mentoring junior linguists and improving localization processes.

Own Arabic localization strategy and quality for 2K games. Lead linguistic direction, glossaries, style guides, VO production, LQA escalation, cross-functional collaboration, and mentor junior linguists to ensure culturally authentic, platform-compliant localized content.

Manage delivery of game features and content for AAA titles: create and track schedules, coordinate cross-functional teams, remove blockers, monitor resources, and ensure quality and communication across production.

Lead and grow a team of tools and automation engineers to build centralized dev tools, CI/CD and automated testing systems, and reusable pipeline products. Drive engineering standards, onboarding, career development, and cross-team alignment while maintaining technical contributions, code reviews, and technology exploration to accelerate game creation across studios.

Serve as principal architect and domain expert for internal tools and products. Design and architect engine, pipeline, DCC and web tools; perform technical due diligence and estimations; mentor leads; define engineering standards; evaluate new technologies/APIs and drive cross-studio adoption of shared tools and platforms.

Lead product and analytics for a new live-service game franchise: define product strategy, measurement and instrumentation, prioritize roadmap, embed research and analytics into decisions, align Studio and Publishing, and build and mentor a scalable product and analytics organization to support launch and long-term live operations.

Manage and mentor a distributed Engineering Services team (8+ engineers) supporting AAA game co-development, platform optimization, and technical initiatives. Align resources with studio timelines, establish engineering best practices (code review, documentation), build development plans, and contribute hands-on via non-critical coding, technical proofs of concept, and code reviews.

Own Russian localization strategy and quality across 2K titles: develop glossaries and style guides, review and edit in-game text/UI/VO, lead VO production, triage linguistic bugs, ensure compliance with regional age ratings, mentor junior linguists, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve localization processes.

The Technical Operations Center Analyst ensures high availability and performance of production systems, monitors incidents, resolves technical requests, and maintains operational documentation.