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Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic.
BALANCE DESIGN INTERNWhat You'll Do
We are looking for a Balance Designer Intern to join us on Fortnite Battle Royale. As part of the team you will be given a gameplay item (likely a weapon) to own and help us manage the live product. Digging into data, helping shape future content, and working with several disciplines to help bring ambitious and crazy ideas to life.
In this role, you will
- Use data to inform design decisions and measure outcomes. Identify practical solutions to problems and help drive empathetic design to improve player experience.
- Adjust live balance in real time. Adjusting numbers, loot, and all knobs available to come up with the optimal solutions. Helping preemptively set features to be balanced/adjusted post launch.
- Work closely with Design to iterate and provide feedback and polish to the design process.
- Rapidly iterate on designs in order to find the best possible outcome in the least amount of time.
- Create and own at least one weapon for Fortnite Battle Royale from the ground up. Working with all relevant departments from ideation to shipping and be responsible for how it ships and any post launch adjustments..
What we're looking for
- First and foremost we are looking for an individual who is passionate about multiplayer balance and game health in Fortnite. No prior game development experience is required.
- Autonomy and the ability to find and fix issues with a passion for learning.
- Ability to communicate your ideas and collaborate with others (written or verbal).
- We consider it beneficial if you have systems design knowledge (including data tables, tuning & balance), and/or prior experience with analytics tools/languages/processes (SQL, tableau, databricks, grafana, etc).
- It's a plus if you have some prior visual scripting experience.
This internship has a flexible start date in 2025. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic’s Early Career Program, visit epicgames.com/earlycareers. This is going to be Epic!
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
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Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and Epic has over 600 million accounts with over 5 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.
