Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Montreal

Design and run playtests (lab and remote), create research plans and study designs, analyze qualitative player feedback and surveys, author research reports, maintain research repositories, collaborate with data science, QA and studios, and perform competitive and design analyses to inform game development.

Lead and grow a team of tools and automation engineers to build centralized dev tools, CI/CD and automated testing systems, and reusable pipeline products. Drive engineering standards, onboarding, career development, and cross-team alignment while maintaining technical contributions, code reviews, and technology exploration to accelerate game creation across studios.

Serve as principal architect and domain expert for internal tools and products. Design and architect engine, pipeline, DCC and web tools; perform technical due diligence and estimations; mentor leads; define engineering standards; evaluate new technologies/APIs and drive cross-studio adoption of shared tools and platforms.

Manage and mentor a distributed Engineering Services team (8+ engineers) supporting AAA game co-development, platform optimization, and technical initiatives. Align resources with studio timelines, establish engineering best practices (code review, documentation), build development plans, and contribute hands-on via non-critical coding, technical proofs of concept, and code reviews.

Design and implement player-centric gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5 using C/C++. Collaborate with design, art, animation, and audio teams, identify and mitigate technical risks, ensure code quality, and debug complex systems for current consoles to realize creative goals.

Leads a team of character artists, establishes visual quality standards and workflows, creates reference assets in Unreal Engine, coordinates with multidisciplinary development teams, manages outsourced character production, and contributes to material pipelines, tools, scheduling, and quality oversight for a AAA BioShock game.

Leads and mentors a gameplay animation team creating high-end player-character and AI animations for a AAA game. Responsibilities include setting animation vision, improving pipelines and tools, training team members, planning motion capture, producing hand-key and motion-capture animations, supporting milestones and hiring, and collaborating across disciplines. The role requires strong expertise in gameplay animation systems, rigging, facial animation, anatomy, and animation principles.

Design, build, and automate scalable ETL pipelines to centralize disparate studio data; standardize and model data for executive BI dashboards; partner with product and studio leaders to resolve data bottlenecks; implement automated data-validation frameworks to ensure reliable leadership reporting.

Lead and mentor a lighting team to create dynamic, optimized real-time lighting and cinematics in Unreal Engine 5. Establish pipelines, best practices, and cross-discipline collaboration with Tech and Production to deliver AAA-quality visual results.

Coordinate engineering, design, and animation teams to deliver AI systems. Create roadmaps, break goals into sprint tasks, remove blockers, manage dependencies, identify and mitigate risks, maintain backlog and production artifacts, and communicate status with stakeholders to ensure delivery against milestones.