Jobs at Larian Studios

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.

Lead and mentor the graphics team, recruit graphics programmers, manage code reviews and documentation, maintain and extend the proprietary engine across platforms, debug and optimize for performance, and ensure high-quality, timely delivery while protecting company assets.

Lead and mentor the engine programming team, manage coding practices, optimize performance, and collaborate closely with other leads to enhance proprietary engine quality.

The DevOps Full Stack Developer will design tools, improve development processes, maintain libraries, automate pipelines, and support team members during critical development stages.

The RPG Designer will craft narratives and gameplay content, ensuring logical flow and quality, while collaborating with teams and reviewing progress.

Develop and maintain the game engine: write performant, robust C++ code; debug, profile and optimize CPU/GPU performance; participate in design, code review, testing and documentation; mentor team members and support engine production.

Join Larian Studios as a Junior Gameplay Programmer, collaborating on gameplay, UI, audio, and more. Write maintainable code and engage with the creative team.

Design and implement player-progression systems, items and loot; tune numeric systems; analyze playtest data; fix bugs; collaborate with other departments to deliver high-quality RPG features.

Design, maintain, and improve ML systems for the game engine and development pipelines; explore ML applications to enhance player experience; educate and mentor studio developers; build a research and knowledge base on ML techniques.

The Engine Programmer will focus on engine development, writing and optimizing code, helping mentor team members, and collaborating on high-quality game projects.

Assist with quality assurance for web development, including executing tests, maintaining automation scripts, and collaborating with teams to ensure high-quality delivery.

Manage storytelling projects, collaborate with narrative designers, writers, and developers, provide narrative guidance and creative support, coordinate with lore team, and ensure narrative consistency across projects.

Lead the Tools team: mentor engineers, plan and deliver internal tools and editor features, collaborate with Engine and Gameplay teams, design UIs, improve content pipelines and workflows, maintain legacy tools, drive feature development, and communicate with stakeholders to boost developer productivity and support modding workflows.

The Senior Tools Programmer develops and maintains development tools, implements user interfaces, improves workflows, and collaborates with multi-disciplinary teams while mentoring others.

The Writer will create engaging dialogues and characters for role-playing games, collaborating with teams to enhance storytelling and ensuring player agency in game narratives.

The Gameplay Programmer will work on game systems, collaborate with teams, write maintainable code, and participate in game design and production.

The Junior Engine Programmer will work on engine development, write and optimize code, and contribute to code reviews and documentation.

The Engine Programmer will develop and optimize engine code, mentor team members, participate in design, and improve processes for game development.