Epic Games is hiring a
Balance Design Intern

Summary

Join Epic Games as a Balance Designer Intern and contribute to the success of Fortnite Battle Royale. As part of the team, you will be given a gameplay item to own and help manage the live product. You will use data to inform design decisions, adjust live balance in real-time, and work closely with Design to iterate and provide feedback.

Requirements

• First and foremost we are looking for an individual who is passionate about multiplayer balance and game health in Fortnite
• Autonomy and the ability to find and fix issues with a passion for learning
• Ability to communicate your ideas and collaborate with others (written or verbal)

Responsibilities

• Use data to inform design decisions and measure outcomes
• Adjust live balance in real time. Adjusting numbers, loot, and all knobs available to come up with the optimal solutions
• Work closely with Design to iterate and provide feedback and polish to the design process
• Rapidly iterate on designs in order to find the best possible outcome in the least amount of time
• Create and own at least one weapon for Fortnite Battle Royale from the ground up. Working with all relevant departments from ideation to shipping and be responsible for how it ships and any post launch adjustments

Preferred Qualifications

• Systems design knowledge (including data tables, tuning & balance), and/or prior experience with analytics tools/languages/processes (SQL, tableau, databricks, grafana, etc)
• Prior visual scripting experience