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Role Description

Bad Robot Games is seeking an Engineering Manager who leads and supports a high caliber team of talented engineers in the development and delivery of a 4 player co-op game. In this role, you will be responsible for assigning engineers to cross-functional pods and aligning them to focus on key areas of the game.

As an Engineering Manager, you will provide technical leadership, coaching, and career development, while fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture. You will raise the bar across engineering and empower teams to ship reliable, scalable systems and deliver a polished player experience that meets both creative and technical goals.

• Manage a team of 4 leads and 6 individual contributors across experience levels, providing coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Foster a collaborative, challenging, and satisfying environment for your development team members. Find and surface issues, risks, and opportunities, and address them head-on. Celebrate wins.
• Partner with production, pod owners, and studio leadership to deliver sprints and milestones on time and at the expected quality bar.
• Allocate engineering resources across pods to best match skills, knowledge, and project needs.
• Empower engineers with the tools, context, and cross-studio support required to execute effectively.
• Represent the engineering organization by surfacing concerns, proposing solutions, and maintaining alignment while protecting technical integrity.
• Advise leadership on engineering systems, technology, and infrastructure, identifying and mitigating technical risks.
• Contribute hands-on as needed to gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5 (Blueprints and C++).
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and communicate regularly with pod leaders on delivery, resourcing, and performance.
• Support critical milestones with urgency, including playtests, in-person events, and occasional travel.
• All of our roles require up to 10% air travel. Examples include Studio/Team Offsites, Team/Studio Events, etc.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of game development experience, including 5+ years in people management, with at least one shipped title in an engineering leadership role.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams while delivering results.
• Deep expertise in at least one core engineering discipline (gameplay, systems, graphics, etc) and Unreal Engine implementation.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills across disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to delegate effectively, manage competing priorities, and mitigate risk.
• Solid understanding of end-to-end game development pipelines and how engineering disciplines come together to ship a product.
• Experience working with outsourced engineering partners.

Benefits

• Annual Salary Range: $200,000 - $210,000
• Our ranges are based on California market rate regardless of work location in the US.