Jobs at Rebellion

Owns the full-cycle in-house recruitment process across multiple departments, partnering with hiring managers and HR to develop sourcing strategies, build candidate pipelines, conduct screenings, coordinate interviews, manage ATS records, track recruitment metrics, and support employer branding. The role also represents Rebellion at recruitment events and helps deliver an excellent candidate experience. It is based onsite at the Oxford headquarters and requires travel to recruitment events.

Adapt, optimize, debug, and integrate existing game codebases for Apple hardware and platforms. Work with senior engineers on low-level systems, performance optimization, cross-platform development, and maintaining clean, efficient, stable, well-documented code.

Open application for senior, lead, and director-level game programmers across AI, animation, audio, automation, backend, DevOps, gameplay, networking, rendering, and tools. Responsibilities may include gameplay systems, engine development, tools, optimization, and platform integration. Candidates should bring strong technical abilities, substantial professional games-industry experience, communication and teamwork skills, and passion for video game development.

Design, implement and maintain character animation systems and tools in the in-house Asura engine. Collaborate with animators and engineers, write and test complex C++ code, diagnose and fix bugs, and produce technical documentation.

Create high-quality, optimized realistic character models and related assets for a AAA third-person tactical shooter. Work with concept art, produce high- and low-poly models, UVs, textures, real-time hair, and integrate/touch-up assets in-engine. Provide feedback to outsource teams, support technical animators, and mentor junior artists.

Lead and mentor a team of UI artists and UX designers to define and deliver high-quality UI/UX for a new game. Build UX strategy, own UI documentation and style, collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage team performance, and ensure artistic vision aligns with technical constraints and player experience.

Speculative/open application for artists across multiple game-art disciplines. Submit a strong portfolio demonstrating relevant 3D/visual art skills (Blender preferred), teamwork, communication, and industry passion; team may contact candidates when suitable vacancies open.

Implement and maintain real-time animation systems in the proprietary Asura engine. Develop runtime systems and content tools, design animation control (FSMs), debug complex issues, collaborate with animators and engineers, and produce technical documentation.

Lead a new Game Security team to design, build and operate anti-cheat and DRM defenses. Research and reverse-engineer cheats, define security lifecycle processes, embed secure practices with engineering teams, and support QA to validate defensive software releases.

Lead the real-time VFX team to define creative and technical direction, mentor artists, establish pipelines and workflows, and deliver high-quality, performance-optimized VFX for an unannounced game using Rebellion's Asura engine. Collaborate with art, design, and engineering to align VFX with gameplay and narrative while managing delivery at scale and ensuring documentation and source control practices.

Lead creation and implementation of high-quality real-time visual effects in Rebellion's proprietary Asura engine. Own complex effects from concept to performant implementation, collaborate with design, art, and code, mentor junior artists, and contribute to pipelines, documentation, and effect libraries.

Senior backend developer responsible for designing, building, deploying and maintaining performant web APIs and internal tools for game engine teams. Work includes integrations with third-party services, database design, serverless functions, deployments, and cross-team bug resolution. Role emphasizes Node.js/JavaScript/TypeScript, cloud environments, and supporting production systems from requirements through maintenance.