Jobs at Playdead

The Creature AI Programmer will design AI systems for creature interaction, collaborate with animators, and develop tools for animation support.

The Technical Director will lead game development, manage teams, ensure high technical quality, and facilitate collaboration across teams to meet creative goals.

Playdead is seeking speculative applications for creative professionals with at least two years of experience, relevant degrees, and a portfolio, for game development.

The VFX Artist will create and maintain visual effects for a third-person game, collaborating with animators and programmers while fulfilling the artistic vision.

Design and block out 3D environments for a third-person open-world game, iterating on spatial designs and collaborating with the team.

The Porting Programmer will maintain and optimize Playdead titles across platforms, develop porting tools, and ensure high quality of releases.

As a Senior Systems Programmer, you'll build core technologies for high-performance games, optimize game systems, and create development tools at Playdead.

The Graphics Programmer will develop graphics technology, enhance aesthetic quality, optimize code, and collaborate closely with artists on projects.

Support the art team by developing technical art tools and environmental simulations for an open-world game using Unreal Engine 5. Create shader graphs, blueprint tooling, and collaborate with animators, programmers, sound designers and artists. Contribute to the art pipeline, solve technical art challenges, and help realize a stylized-realism visual style. Full-time onsite role in Copenhagen with relocation support.

Responsible for scripting gameplay mechanics, prototyping and implementing interactions, and collaborating on level designs for a new game.

The Technical Gameplay Designer will prototype and implement gameplay interactions in a 3D adventure game, collaborating with various departments and participating in testing and feedback.