Jobs at NBCUniversal

Leads lighting execution for a large-scale interactive project, creating mood, realism, readability, and visual storytelling across environments, gameplay, and cinematics. Manages and mentors lighting artists, collaborates with art, design, VFX, and technical teams, and ensures lighting meets artistic, technical, and performance requirements across high-end and mobile platforms. Supports production planning, quality validation, workflow efficiency, and risk visibility.

Leads production delivery for a large-scale AAA game pillar. Translates priorities into sprint plans, facilitates Scrum ceremonies, manages backlogs, risks, dependencies, milestones, and delivery visibility, and removes blockers across multiple multidisciplinary pods. Partners with Product Owners, pod leads, and craft directors to improve workflows, team health, communication, and accountability. Requires extensive game production experience, agile facilitation, and cross-team coordination.

Develop reinforcement learning systems for autonomous agents by designing high-fidelity 2D/3D simulation environments, reward functions, and policy architectures. Implement and optimize algorithms such as PPO, SAC, and Offline RL for high-dimensional observations. Develop sim-to-real strategies using domain randomization and adaptation, collaborate with ML, annotation, and program management teams, and ensure reliable agent performance and environment parity.

Owns gameplay features from concept through polish, designing and implementing scalable systems, mechanics, and interactive features in Unreal Engine 5 using Blueprint. Prototypes rapidly, optimizes performance, develops systemic and open-world gameplay, and collaborates across engineering, art, animation, UX, and production. Uses playtesting, telemetry, and player feedback to iterate. Mentors designers, documents technical workflows, identifies risks, and promotes maintainable implementations.

Leads prop art production for an interactive AAA entertainment project, overseeing asset creation, quality, scalability, pipelines, and integration across city dressing, interiors, vehicles, and UGC. Manages and mentors prop artists, collaborates with environment, lighting, technical art, and production teams, and coordinates with external development partners. Ensures assets meet artistic direction, technical constraints, milestone requirements, and platform needs from high-end to mobile.

Leads vegetation art for an interactive entertainment experience, defining quality standards and scalable systems for trees, plants, ground cover, and ecosystems. Collaborates with environment, procedural, technical art, Houdini, lighting, and production teams to develop pipelines, tools, workflows, and world-building strategies. Ensures vegetation meets artistic, technical, scalability, and performance requirements across high-end and mobile platforms, while guiding biome direction, reviewing content, and addressing production risks.

Defines facial art standards and solves complex character-art challenges for an interactive entertainment project. Develops and advances facial pipelines, scanning workflows, blendshape systems, real-time character performance, and production tools. Collaborates with character art, animation, technical art, and external teams to integrate facial rigs, establish quality benchmarks, validate content, and improve expressive realism, scalability, and efficiency.

Leads the character and wardrobe materials team for an AAA open-world interactive experience. Defines material pipelines, workflows, shaders, libraries, and production standards for skin, fabric, and wardrobe assets. Ensures visual quality, technical integration, scalability, and consistency across hero characters and crowds, from high-end platforms to mobile. Collaborates with character, technical art, lighting, and rendering teams while improving production efficiency and managing artists.

Leads the creation of world and prop materials for an open-world interactive experience. Manages material artists, translates art direction into scalable surface systems, develops tiling and modular shader workflows, and maintains material libraries across high-end and mobile platforms. Collaborates with environment, technical art, lighting, rendering, and pipeline teams to ensure visual consistency, technical integration, and performance.

Leads a team creating procedural environment assets, including vegetation, organic assets, and architectural facade kits, for a large-scale interactive urban project. Translates artistic direction into scalable pipelines, collaborates with Houdini and Tech Art teams, mentors artists, optimizes workflows across high-end and mobile platforms, and supports production planning, quality tracking, and milestone readiness.

Leads video game quality assurance strategy, teams, testing coverage, and processes. Assigns workloads, oversees test plans and risk assessments, reviews bug reports, supports integration and smoke testing, investigates technical issues using debugging tools and logs, and collaborates with developers, designers, producers, and stakeholders to maintain build stability and improve QA workflows, tools, dashboards, and quality standards.

Design and implement software architecture integrating machine learning models with real-time rendering systems. Evaluate customer requirements, determine build-versus-buy approaches, and route specialized needs to deep learning or reinforcement learning teams. Develop language-agnostic wrappers, APIs, and microservices while coordinating technical requirements among customers, leadership, and engineering. Translate product visions into modular, scalable, maintainable software components.

Create high-quality 3D character gameplay animations for navigation, interactions, conversations, traversal, and other gameplay systems. Export, implement, and test animations in the game engine; troubleshoot animation issues; collaborate with animators, designers, and gameplay programmers; participate in reviews; and mentor junior animators. The role requires strong knowledge of body mechanics, biped locomotion, motion capture, keyframe animation, gameplay systems, and animation workflows, with experience shipping an AAA game.

Serve as the primary HR partner for a Canadian (Quebec-focused) workforce: advise leaders on employee and labor relations, workforce planning, hiring strategies, immigration support, compliance with Quebec and federal employment and privacy laws, administer leaves and health & safety programs, manage employee relations and change management, and align HR processes with US teams while ensuring bilingual (EN/FR) communications.

Lead technical vision and execution for technical art across PC, console, and mobile. Build and mentor the technical art team, define pipelines, tooling, performance budgets, profiling and optimization workflows, and partner with engineering to deliver scalable, maintainable content and automation for Unreal Engine 5 projects.

Lead visual direction for characters, world, concepts, lighting and VFX on a large interactive entertainment project. Establish visual standards, workflows, and scalable pipelines; mentor artists and partners; review deliverables for quality and technical feasibility; drive cross-discipline collaboration and ensure timely delivery of high-quality, scalable content.

Design, implement, and optimize Unreal Engine rendering systems for mobile (shaders, materials, lighting, post-processing) in C++. Profile and debug GPU performance on iOS/Android, collaborate with Art/Tech Art/Engine teams, mentor junior engineers, and ensure scalable, stable visuals across diverse mobile hardware.

Design, implement, and maintain Unreal Engine rendering systems and shaders. Optimize performance and memory across platforms, debug GPU and lighting issues, participate in profiling, support UE upgrades, collaborate with Art/Tech Art, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to rendering architecture and technical decisions.

Design, implement, and optimize Unreal Engine engine-level systems for mobile (iOS/Android). Focus on performance, memory, power, platform integrations, profiling and debugging on real devices. Collaborate with rendering and gameplay teams, maintain engine code, support mobile features (asset streaming, memory budgeting), mentor junior engineers, and follow team standards for clean Unreal C++ code and version control.

Design, implement, and optimize real-time multiplayer network systems (replication, synchronization, communication). Integrate with engine and backend, profile and debug networking issues, mentor junior engineers, and improve networking architecture for AAA-scale games.