Design Engineer at Rockstar Games | New York, United States | Rezi

Design Engineer at Rockstar Games

Design Engineer

Rockstar Games · New York, United States

3 weeks ago

Design Engineer

Rockstar Games · New York, United States

a month ago
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About the Role

Rockstar Games is seeking a Design Engineer to join our Product Design Team. This person will collaborate with other engineers, designers, and producers across departments, and enjoy working in a fast-paced work environment with attention to detail and innovative thinking.

Responsibilities

  • Bridge the gap between Design and Engineering teams to implement, refine, and optimize interactions, details, and animations for digital products.
  • Partner with Designers to translate ideas to code, providing feedback, solutions, and creative ideas.
  • Prototype with code as a design tool to build interactive prototypes that validate ideas and accelerate decision-making.
  • Work alongside Engineers to translate design concepts into performant product features, balancing ambition with scale.
  • Contribute reusable interaction patterns, motion systems, and frontend components.
  • Champion frontend craft, advocating for best practices in interaction design, animation, accessibility, and performance.
  • Explore emerging technologies, tools, and techniques to push the boundaries of digital marketing and product experiences.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a Frontend Engineer, Creative Developer, Design Technologist, or similar role.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and a demonstrated passion for craft, polish, and creating best-in-class digital experiences.
  • Advanced working knowledge of CSS, including animations, responsive design, rendering performance, browser capabilities, and modern best practices.
  • Proven experience crafting sophisticated UI animations and interactive experiences using GSAP or comparable animation libraries.
  • Strong proficiency with modern design tools, including Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
  • Proficiency in React and Typescript.
  • Demonstrated ability to prototype and communicate ideas through code.
  • Experience collaborating closely with both designers and engineers throughout the product development lifecycle.
  • Portfolio required for consideration.

Skills

  • CSS
  • GSAP
  • Figma
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • React
  • Typescript
  • three.js
  • Blender
  • Cinema 4D
  • WebGL
  • shaders
  • motion graphics

Location

  • NYC headquarters in Downtown Manhattan

Work Type

  • full-time
  • in-office

Experience Level

  • 5+ years

Salary/Compensations

  • $121,000—$161,000 USD

Benefits

  • bonus
  • equity awards
  • medical benefits
  • financial benefits
  • other benefits

About the Company

  • At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences.
  • Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.
  • The Rockstar Games Product Design Team creates experiences that help fuel the reach and impact of our brand and deepen players’ relationships and engagement with our innovative products.
  • Our team leads a range of projects that includes (but is not limited to) websites, apps, social, and other digital marketing and engagement experiences.
  • We grow and evolve the tools, features, and solutions relied upon by teams across the company to achieve business objectives on digital channels.
  • Our Product Designers work iteratively and collaboratively to create best-in-class digital experiences and product features for a large-scale global audience.

Equal Opportunity

  • Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect.
  • Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process.
  • We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.