Jobs at Larian Studios

Supports reception, deliveries, meeting-room preparation, office supplies, purchasing, maintenance and vendor follow-ups, internal events, health and safety tasks, employee inquiries, and general Studio Operations administration. The intern gains hands-on experience in office operations while supporting a collaborative game development studio.

Support and extend the proprietary game engine’s graphics stack, including lighting, particle simulation, materials, post-processing, culling, and streaming. Collaborate with art, VFX, and level design teams to implement high-quality visual effects. Write performant, tested, maintainable C++ code and contribute to game design and production while working full-time onsite in Barcelona.

Assist with maintaining and extending Larian Studios’ proprietary game engine, including memory management, networking, ECS, data structures, performance optimization, physics, and animation systems. Collaborate with game development departments to implement components, write robust and tested C++ code, and participate in creative and technical game production. This is a full-time, on-site internship in Barcelona.

Supports web project teams by organizing Jira boards and tickets, tracking action items, coordinating meetings and planning sessions, maintaining documentation, and facilitating communication across departments. The role requires strong organization, communication, attention to detail, advanced Jira experience, and familiarity with collaboration tools and Agile practices.

Perform manual and automated testing for game engine changes, tools, and production pipelines. Collaborate closely with programmers, maintain Python/Pytest and Lua tests, assess bug impact, follow QA priorities, and support production teams with technical issues. The role requires programming or scripting experience, familiarity with game engines and version control, strong English communication, methodical problem-solving, and a passion for video games.

Performs manual and automated testing for game engine changes, maintains Python/Pytest and Lua tests, validates production pipelines and tools, and supports programmers and production teams with technical issues. The role follows QA priorities, evaluates bug impact, and contributes to quality assurance for role-playing games.

Coordinates voice-over and motion-capture production scheduling across studios, including booking sessions, preparing scripts and materials, managing purchase orders, invoices, contracts, casting workflows, and actor onboarding. Builds relationships with agencies and freelancers, maintains casting records, supports directors and studio crews, and learns the technical VO asset pipeline to help resolve post-session issues.

Designs and maintains multi-platform build pipelines, CI systems, and build server infrastructure. The role monitors and improves automation, documents build and release processes, supports patch releases, and assists teammates. It requires Jenkins, CI/CD, scripting, shell automation, version control, software design, and problem-solving skills. Preferred experience includes Ansible, C/C++ build automation, full-stack development, and the games industry.

Lead the Dublin game studio’s daily operations, budgets, projects, people management, recruitment, onboarding, coaching, and team development. Serve as the studio’s representative with Larian leadership, external partners, colleges, local authorities, and government. Promote a positive studio culture, support internship programs, ensure legal compliance, advocate for the gaming sector, and help secure applicable tax credits.

Leads an infrastructure support team, coordinates ticket workloads, and oversees user onboarding, offboarding, equipment deployment, asset inventories, licensing, and endpoint management. Administers Active Directory, Google Workspace, and Intune while supporting monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, business continuity, change management, migrations, and IT security standards. Provides technical guidance, process improvements, and escalation management across international studio locations.

Authors real-time cinematics and interactive dialogue sequences in a proprietary engine. Provides artistic feedback and performance development for junior artists, establishes pipeline and tool standards, and designs workflow and technology features. The role requires visual storytelling expertise, strong camera and staging skills, interest in film, 3D authorship experience, and a commitment to developing as an artistic lead.

Maintain and extend proprietary game-engine VFX systems, including particle simulation, materials, post-processing, rendering, and lighting. Collaborate with art and VFX teams to build visual effects, debug and optimize performance, document features, and develop GPU algorithms using modern graphics APIs. The role requires strong C++, graphics programming, profiling, multithreading, shading, and problem-solving skills. C# and shipped game or console-title experience are preferred.

Create and implement gameplay sequences, narrative-driven content, gameplay features, and scripting mechanics using proprietary tools and internal scripting languages. Collaborate with worldbuilding, cinematics, and writing teams to deliver player-focused experiences. The role includes coordinating feature development, improving implementation processes, mentoring junior staff, managing priorities, and maintaining quality across game content.

Manage HR policies, employee records, employee relations, compensation and benefits, performance management, compliance, expatriate administration, training, and employee lifecycle processes across seven studio locations. The role supports leaders and employees, maintains HR metrics and systems, contributes to HR projects, and ensures consistent practices in a fast-growing, international creative organization.

As a Gameplay Programming Intern at Larian Studios, you will collaborate with developers on gameplay systems, write maintainable code, and integrate features into the game.

Maintain and update PC, Mac, iOS, and console builds for shipped role-playing games. Write robust, performant C++ code; debug, profile, and optimize systems; and contribute to reviews, testing, and documentation. The role requires platform-specific graphics and SDK experience, strong multithreading knowledge, hardware expertise, and collaboration across engine development efforts.

Develop and support RPG engine and gameplay systems, collaborating with programmers, UI designers, and other departments to implement game components. Write robust, maintainable C++ code, contribute to game design and production, and iterate on features in a creative, collaborative environment.

Design and own tactical, engaging combat encounters; coordinate asset requests across disciplines; use and improve internal tools; track changes to mechanics; advocate for player motivations; proactively identify and resolve combat experience issues.

Maintain and extend the studio's proprietary engine for VFX (particle simulation, materials, post-process, rendering/lighting). Collaborate with Art/VFX to implement high-quality visual effects, optimize and debug for performance, and document code features.

Lead and approve narrative development across projects, mentor a storytelling team, evaluate and refine pitches, characters, and scripts, maintain narrative quality across formats and genres, and foster a shared narrative culture.