Jobs at Cloud Imperium Games

Design, sculpt, model, texture, and integrate highly detailed sci-fi creatures for a AAA game. Translate 2D concepts into production-ready 3D assets, create anatomical and surface details, optimize low-poly models for real-time engines, and develop shaders and materials. Collaborate with art directors, concept artists, animators, riggers, and technical artists to ensure visual consistency, proper deformation, expressive movement, and engine performance.

Design, sculpt, model, texture, and integrate highly detailed sci-fi creatures for a real-time AAA game. Collaborate with art directors, concept artists, animators, and technical artists to translate concepts into production-ready assets, ensure proper deformation and rigging support, and maintain visual quality within engine performance budgets.

Supports backend operations for the RSI web store by creating and maintaining digital product SKUs, pricing, configurations, release data, promotions, and game entitlements. The role validates and publishes store content, coordinates with internal teams, supports launches and triage, maintains process documentation, and performs detailed data-entry work. Success requires accuracy, organization, adaptability, strong communication, and the ability to manage changing priorities independently.

Designs and integrates machine learning capabilities into game editors, engine tools, and game systems. Owns complex technical features, improves development pipelines and workflows, identifies technical risks, and delivers scalable, reliable solutions. The role also includes reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and collaborating across disciplines to advance AI-enabled game development.

Tests subtitles, captions, and in-game text for timing, accuracy, accessibility, and consistency. Logs reproducible bugs, tracks issues through closure, maintains test cases and coverage reports, and collaborates with Narrative, Audio, UI Tech, and QA teams. The role also reviews text against style guidelines, creates closed captions, investigates root causes, and recommends process or tooling improvements. Training is provided, making prior games QA experience unnecessary.

Own the global marketing strategy, team leadership, brand positioning, campaigns, community growth, player acquisition, commercial calendar, budget, performance reporting, and agency relationships for Star Citizen. The role partners with senior leadership, drives audience retention and revenue, oversees integrated marketing across brand, social, content, community, and creative functions, and uses market, competitor, and community insights to guide decisions.

Leads a props art team creating detailed, optimized hard-surface, soft furnishing, organic, and interactable assets for a AAA space simulation game. Establishes artistic and technical quality standards, reviews work, collaborates with art direction and production, plans workloads, allocates tasks, manages deliverables, and mentors artists. Requires expertise in modeling, materials, texture baking, asset optimization, technical pipelines, and team leadership.

Designs and owns missions, features, mechanics, systems, and in-game events for a persistent multiplayer space simulation. Collaborates with Narrative to create engaging stories, uses visual scripting tools to implement mission logic, and partners with AI, gameplay, mechanics, and tools teams. The role also involves cross-disciplinary collaboration, mentoring junior designers, feature ownership, and meeting frequent deadlines within an AAA game development environment.

Creates realistic, high-quality character assets for Star Citizen, including bodies, faces, clothing, hair, armor, creatures, and accessories. Responsibilities span concept interpretation, sculpting, modeling, texturing, optimization, LOD creation, and final game integration. The role maintains AAA visual standards, collaborates across art and technical teams, troubleshoots production issues, contributes to R&D and pipeline improvements, reviews artwork, and mentors less experienced artists.

Design and develop vehicles and gameplay systems for Squadron 42 and the Persistent Universe. Implement designs with in-house tools, collaborate with art/animation/audio/VFX, pitch and iterate concepts, ensure systems integrate cleanly, review features through implementation, and analyze data to inform design decisions.

Designs and implements creature AI behaviors, combat mechanics, encounter systems, and related gameplay features for open-world multiplayer games. Owns major creature design features, scripts and prototypes systems, guides pipeline improvements, and collaborates with animation, engineering, and design teams. Supports other team members, participates in design reviews, and helps deliver immersive, dynamic creature experiences from concept through release.

Senior Producer responsible for overseeing day-to-day project delivery across global videogame development teams. The role manages priorities, risks, changes, deadlines, production processes, and relationships with leadership. It also includes line management and mentorship of producers, conflict resolution, team building, process improvement, motivation, and support for hiring efforts.

Owns the design and implementation of sandbox and dungeon levels for multiplayer space-simulation games. Responsibilities include creating layouts, puzzles, traversal challenges, events, and modular content; collaborating with directors, designers, artists, and tools teams; mentoring junior level designers; and driving improvements to game editors, location tools, and procedural content workflows.

Lead gameplay programming for Star Citizen within the StarEngine. Responsibilities include understanding engine technology, collaborating with creative directors, documenting and reviewing technical designs, mentoring and managing software engineers, identifying project improvements, and supporting projects through release. The role requires a strong programming background, experience completing multiple large AAA titles across multiple platforms, technical decision-making ability, cross-disciplinary communication skills, and fluency in English.

Own global brand strategy and go-to-market execution for game content launches. Develop integrated marketing plans, manage cross-functional development and marketing teams, oversee creative assets and external partners, conduct competitive and market analysis, and steward brand positioning across target audiences. The role supports web, trailers, social media, promotions, events, and live game releases while ensuring consistent execution across Cloud Imperium Games’ brands.

Leads global brand strategy, positioning, go-to-market planning, and integrated marketing campaigns for major game content launches. Partners with product, creative, commercial, and marketing teams to align execution, manage vendors and launch partners, oversee campaign assets, analyze markets and consumers, and optimize performance. Acts as the senior advocate for assigned game brands and IPs, using deep knowledge of video games and their communities to shape global audience engagement.

Supports Senior Producers in delivering Core Technology Group projects across global teams. Manages day-to-day production, tracks and resolves risks and changes, drives deadlines, improves processes, supports team motivation and collaboration, resolves conflicts, builds distributed teams, and assists with hiring efforts.

Own end-to-end UX/UI design for high-volume e-commerce and platform experiences. Design checkout, cart, upsell and pledge flows focused on conversion and clarity. Work iteratively within the Orion Design System, collaborate with product, engineering, QA and marketing, contribute to design tokens and system evolution, and deliver high-fidelity production-ready designs.

Supports marketing leadership by coordinating web, creative, and promotional projects across international teams. Responsibilities include developing project plans and trackers, managing schedules and changes, coordinating delivery of creative assets, facilitating cross-team communication, identifying risks, resolving issues, maintaining documentation, and improving processes. The role serves as a liaison among marketing, web, creative, social, CRM, PR, community, and platform technology teams.

Design character concepts for Star Citizen from research to final images, creating humanoids, clothing, creatures, and hard-surface armor/machinery. Collaborate with Concept and Character teams, participate in feedback loops, and deliver visuals that meet team expectations.