Location: Offices in Los Angeles, CA or Boulder, CO – Remote candidates welcome
Job Type: Full-Time
About Us
Operative Games is pioneering a new frontier in narrative gaming—where stories are shaped in real-time by powerful AI systems and player choices. We’re building an authoring pipeline that empowers writers and designers to create rich, branching, and agile story worlds. To support that vision, we’re looking for a Systems Engineer to architect and implement the core systems that drive narrative authoring and in-game story logic.
The Role
As a Systems Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing and building the technical foundations for our story logic, authoring tools, and narrative content systems. You’ll work closely with our writers, designers, and AI engineers to define how story events are authored, triggered, and tracked in-game. You’ll also help build a robust database layer and a modular event system that gives our narrative team the tools to tell expressive, reactive stories.
This is a hybrid role for a technical builder who’s also excited by the design side of interactive storytelling.
Key Responsibilities
Event System Design: Architect a flexible, data-driven event system that can trigger narrative content, track player state, and support branching logic.
Tool & Template Creation: Build simple, scalable authoring tools and templates that empower writers and designers to work directly in the system with minimal engineering support.
Data Layer Architecture: Design and implement the backend/database layer to manage narrative state, player progression, and authored content.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with narrative designers, AI developers, and gameplay engineers to ensure seamless integration between authored content and runtime systems.
Authoring UX: Advocate for usability and iteration speed in authoring pipelines, helping non-technical team members work effectively.
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