Ramen VR
Senior Gameplay Engineer
Ramen VR, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
We’re looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer with a 6th sense for good game feel to help us explore brave new frontiers in VR interaction and gameplay. You must be an incredibly passionate game engineer with a penchant for nailing game feel and aesthetic.Your design sensibilities for what feels good in VR gaming must be S-tier, and you must be able to show demonstrable success shipping successful products while being super fast at prototyping.We encourage people with non-traditional backgrounds in modding and game development to apply. Some of our best engineers have come from the modding community. Maybe you’ve been modding Minecraft since you were in grade school – or making Roblox games / tinkering with Steam workshops.Requirements
Shipped successful projects, either solo or on a team, where you owned a major systemExperience working with advanced animation frameworks, especially systems that use a combination of different FK and IK solutions to produce AAA level animations.Good taste and intuition on aesthetic and game-feel, validated by shipping successful titles.Demonstrable experience creating and then owning core gameplay systems and with minimal supervision.Experience building tactile gaming experiences in VR.Pluses
Building in multiple game enginesExperience building and prototyping systems using LLMs and generative AIMaterials and shadersAbout Ramen VRMeaningful games can change lives, and every game starts with its developers. We believe that game devs can change the world.We're a team of devs working on solving the hardest problems in game development. We previously built the #1 VR game Zenith: The Last City on Steam and Quest.We've raised $40m+ to date and have been working in stealth on our next game as well as tools that will shape the future of game development.We're funded by some of the best investors and gaming entrepreneurs in the world including YCombinator, The Makers Fund, Twitch COO Kevin Lin, and Kabam Cofounder Holly Liu and also the most
successful VR Gaming Kickstarter of all time .Why Work At Ramen VR?Create the next realityEvery startup claims they are changing the world. How often do you find one that's building an entirely new reality? Also, we're such a small team, that you'll be working from and learning directly from the founders every day.We Love GamesHave a favorite game coming out? Take a day off on launch day. We'll even buy you the deluxe version of the game. Play the game, and just do a short write-up to teach us what you learned. Join weekly game lunches where we bond and play games together as a team.Company RetreatsTravel somewhere in the world with us, and live in a big house together for a week, all expenses paid. Spend time working, playing games, exploring a new country, and growing together.BenefitsFor full-time employees, we offer unlimited PTO, full coverage health insurance (for you and dependents) if you're based in the US, an annual health & wellness stipend for non-US based folks, annual tech stipends to use towards VR or equipment and more.
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Shipped successful projects, either solo or on a team, where you owned a major systemExperience working with advanced animation frameworks, especially systems that use a combination of different FK and IK solutions to produce AAA level animations.Good taste and intuition on aesthetic and game-feel, validated by shipping successful titles.Demonstrable experience creating and then owning core gameplay systems and with minimal supervision.Experience building tactile gaming experiences in VR.Pluses
Building in multiple game enginesExperience building and prototyping systems using LLMs and generative AIMaterials and shadersAbout Ramen VRMeaningful games can change lives, and every game starts with its developers. We believe that game devs can change the world.We're a team of devs working on solving the hardest problems in game development. We previously built the #1 VR game Zenith: The Last City on Steam and Quest.We've raised $40m+ to date and have been working in stealth on our next game as well as tools that will shape the future of game development.We're funded by some of the best investors and gaming entrepreneurs in the world including YCombinator, The Makers Fund, Twitch COO Kevin Lin, and Kabam Cofounder Holly Liu and also the most
successful VR Gaming Kickstarter of all time .Why Work At Ramen VR?Create the next realityEvery startup claims they are changing the world. How often do you find one that's building an entirely new reality? Also, we're such a small team, that you'll be working from and learning directly from the founders every day.We Love GamesHave a favorite game coming out? Take a day off on launch day. We'll even buy you the deluxe version of the game. Play the game, and just do a short write-up to teach us what you learned. Join weekly game lunches where we bond and play games together as a team.Company RetreatsTravel somewhere in the world with us, and live in a big house together for a week, all expenses paid. Spend time working, playing games, exploring a new country, and growing together.BenefitsFor full-time employees, we offer unlimited PTO, full coverage health insurance (for you and dependents) if you're based in the US, an annual health & wellness stipend for non-US based folks, annual tech stipends to use towards VR or equipment and more.
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