QA Internship Opportunity

Blue Isle Studios offers internships to help aspiring developers gain video game industry experience at a veteran studio. The ideal candidate will be working closely with our QA team to provide feedback and analysis that is meaningful in shipping a quality multiplayer title. They must be able to also communicate professionally and effectively with programmers, designers, artists, team leads and other testers.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop test cases and estimate execution time

2. Execute tests, capture test results and report issues in JIRA

3. Help manage the JIRA bug database and raise concerns with team leads

4. Ensure test documentation and results are maintained

Requirements:

1. Critical eye for gameplay feedback loops and fun factor

2. Excellent communication skills

3. Expert organizational skills

Pluses:

1. Experience working with Unreal 4 or Unity

2. Experience working with JIRA issue tracking, Slack and Trello

3. Experience working with open world multiplayer games

4. Computer science or related degree

5. Junior level proficiency in game development field such as art, design and programming

Please submit your application with a resume and portfolio to jobs@blueislestudios.com

Hiring VFX Artist

Blue Isle Studios is looking for a candidate with extensive experience in art workflows from shipping one or more successful AAA console or PC game titles. Our ideal candidate is someone passionate about bridging the gap between two very different disciplines and seeing it all brought together into one cohesive end-product. 

This is a full-time contract, remote position (minimum 3 months).

Responsibilities:

1. Creation of handcrafted visual effects to be used in real-time game assets

2. Technical setup and integration of VFX in-engine

3. Technical setup and integration of animations and blendtrees in-engine

4. Work with programming staff to integrate code-heavy artistic assets such as player models, weapons and and abilities

Requirements:

1. Experience working with Unreal Engine 4

2. Shipped at least one title using any version of Unreal

3. Experience in 3DSMax, Maya and integration of assets in Unreal 4

4. Strong experience with Cascade, Niagara and Persona

5. Experience with Blueprints in Unreal Engine

6. Strong communication skills with both artists and programmers

7. Minimum 3 years working in game development

Pluses:

1. C++ coding experience

2. Experience working on multiplayer games

3. Computer science or related degree

Please contact us at jobs@blueislestudios.com with samples of your work, cover letter and resume. We look forward to hearing from you!