Hybrid Game Designer

at FunPlus

• Job title: Game Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Unreal Engine
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Lisbon, Portugal

About the role

• Systems Game Designer at Studio Ellipsis focusing on gameplay systems and systemic design in a hybrid work setup. Involved in developing an action title's systemic backbone located in Lisbon, Portugal.

Responsibilities

• Design, tune, and balance core gameplay systems that drive progression, resource flow, and dynamic world behaviors.
• Translate high-level design goals into clear, scalable systems that connect mechanics, player motivation, and content.
• Model dependencies and feedback loops between AI, combat, economy, and world systems to ensure long-term balance and emergent variety.
• Work closely with engineering and data teams to implement tunable, data-driven frameworks that can scale efficiently.
• Analyze telemetry and playtest data to validate assumptions, identify edge cases, and optimize player experience.
• Establish clear system documentation and parameter hierarchies, ensuring other designers can build within your frameworks.
• Collaborate cross-discipline (Combat, AI, Content, Technical Design) to maintain systemic coherence and design consistency.
• Champion systemic thinking within the team, promoting elegant solutions, simulation-minded design, and measurable outcomes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in systems or economy design on at least one shipped title.
• Proven ability to design and balance interconnected systems with multiple inputs, dependencies, and player variables.
• Strong understanding of data-driven design workflows parameter tuning within Unreal.
• Analytical mindset: translate qualitative goals into quantitative balance models.
• Clear communication skills, able to convey complex system logic visually & persuasively.
• A genuine fascination for how systems behave, in games, and real-world dynamics.
• Experience designing and implementing gameplay systems in Unreal Engine.
• Shipped at least one game using Unreal Engine.
• Bonus: Experience with procedural content generation or systemic encounter frameworks.
• Bonus: Familiarity with combat-driven or extraction-style PvEvP ecosystems.
• Bonus: Understanding of AI behavior dependencies, rarity systems, and scaling logic.
• Bonus: Background in mathematics, data analysis, or systems architecture.
• Bonus: Familiarity with the Gameplay Ability System (GAS) and its application to multiplayer.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements