Jobs at Side

Tests localized video games for English language errors, missing or incorrect content, console guideline compliance, and gameplay issues. Documents bugs, provides feedback and suggestions, performs occasional translations, and collaborates with the team. The role requires native-level English, basic French, Canadian and American cultural knowledge, computer literacy, Excel skills, attention to detail, and availability for up to 40 hours weekly in Montreal.

Creates high-quality, game-ready textures, materials, and trim sheets for real-time environments. Collaborates with environment artists, technical artists, and developers to meet artistic and performance goals, establish texturing standards, and optimize assets for modern game engines and PBR workflows. The role requires advanced Substance Painter and Substance Designer expertise, strong 3D art pipeline knowledge, and experience supporting realistic and stylized game projects.

Create high-quality, game-ready 3D assets for real-time environments using detailed polygonal modeling. Optimize assets for performance through LOD creation and UV unwrapping, integrate them into Unreal Engine, and collaborate with artists, designers, and technical teams while following artistic direction and style guides.

In-office Polish localization QA tester: proofread Polish text, identify language/cultural errors, verify console guidelines, report bugs, suggest improvements, find missing/incorrect content, and perform ad-hoc translations.

Lead business development for player support, QA, and co-development services across the Bay Area and North America. Build relationships, create tailored proposals, expand accounts into art, audio, localization, and IT services, manage revenue targets and CRM pipeline, and collaborate with internal teams to deliver integrated client solutions and go-to-market strategies.

Design and process character-driven voice assets using creative FX chains, plugins, automation and routing. Produce creature, robotic, masked, radio and layered voice treatments; ensure clarity, consistency, technical compliance and organized deliverables. Collaborate with audio teams, troubleshoot sessions, and create reusable presets, documentation and batch-ready workflows to meet project deadlines and delivery specifications.

Optimize large-scale open-world game environments for visual quality, performance, and memory budgets. Develop and refine LOD, HLOD, materials, textures, shaders, asset streaming, tools, workflows, and engine solutions. Profile CPU, GPU, and memory usage to identify bottlenecks, then collaborate with artists, rendering engineers, and content teams to resolve them and improve scalable content production.

Test localized Hindi game builds: proofread and identify Hindi language errors, ensure console guideline compliance, report bugs, suggest improvements, check missing/incorrect content, and perform ad-hoc translations. On-call contract requires full-time availability Monday–Friday.

Manage full-cycle, high-volume hiring for a Montreal studio: source, screen, and pipeline candidates; coordinate interviews; maintain ATS records; track recruiting metrics; partner with hiring managers; support employer branding and continuous improvement.

Design, build, and deploy Python-based microservice APIs that call LLMs and generative models to automate business processes and support game services. Translate business requirements into API specs, integrate services across systems, collaborate with DevOps for cloud deployments, optimize AI model performance, write and debug core AI code, and communicate with cross-functional stakeholders.

Test localized Indonesian game builds in-office: proofread and find language errors, verify console guideline compliance, report bugs, suggest improvements, identify missing/incorrect content, and perform occasional short translations.

Test localized video games in Traditional Chinese: proofread text, identify language and content errors, ensure compliance with console guidelines, file bug reports, suggest improvements, and perform occasional short translations.

The role involves QA testing for localization in gaming, ensuring linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness across various platforms. Responsibilities include identifying language errors, following console guidelines, and writing reports on findings.

In-office Brazilian Portuguese localization QA tester for video games. Proofread and identify language errors, verify console guidelines, report bugs, suggest improvements, check missing/incorrect content, and perform occasional short translations.

The role involves proofreading, ensuring compliance with console guidelines, bug reporting, offering feedback, and conducting occasional translations for video games in German.

As a Localization QA Tester, you'll proofread Italian content, ensure guideline compliance, report bugs, provide feedback, and perform translations.

Lead Side's global Datasets business strategy and operations, expanding beyond speech into image, video, multimodal and crowdsourced data. Drive solution design, scalable delivery methodologies, pricing and commercial strategy, client partnerships, team leadership, QA and metadata standards, and industry thought leadership to grow large-scale, multilingual AI training data programs.