About the role
Role Overview
Telescope Games is hiring a Senior Game Engineer to join a fully remote team of game developers. This is a broad engine and systems role on a Unity project, focusing on core technology, the networking and simulation framework, tooling, and systems integration.
The game runs on a deterministic, tick-based ECS simulation in C# beneath Unity, utilizing fixed-point math, fixed-timestep logic, and efficient, allocation-free code.
Compensation and Location
- Compensation: $100,000 - $135,000 USD
- Location: Fully remote; hiring across time zones from PST to EST.
Responsibilities
- Build, extend, and maintain core engine and game systems, from the simulation layer up through the Unity presentation layer.
- Implement features within the deterministic simulation framework and support networked play, including input handling, session flow, reconnection, and replays.
- Work on the Unity side as needed: asset and build pipelines, platform support, and editor tooling.
- Diagnose and resolve complex technical problems including desyncs, hitches, crashes, and performance regressions.
- Profile and optimize across all target platforms to keep the game within CPU and memory budgets.
- Partner with gameplay, design, and production teams to scope technical work and unblock the team.
- Contribute to architecture decisions, code review, documentation, and mentoring.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of game development experience in an engine, core technology, or systems capacity.
- At least one shipped title.
- Strong C# fundamentals, including performance-sensitive code. (A strong C++ background with willingness to work in C# is welcome).
- Experience with Unity beyond gameplay scripting, specifically: editor tooling, asset and build pipelines, and profiling.
- Comfort in a deterministic, fixed-timestep, data-oriented codebase, or the fundamentals to get there quickly.
- Genuine breadth: a track record of picking up unfamiliar systems and becoming productive in them.
- Rigorous debugging and profiling habits, and patience for problems that do not reproduce on demand.
- Clear communicator capable of explaining technical tradeoffs to engineers and non-engineers alike.
- Experience shipping on console or mobile, including certification and low-end device performance.
Nice to Have
- Prior work with a deterministic simulation or predict/rollback networking framework.
- Unmanaged or pointer-based C#, custom allocators, ECS architecture, or fixed-point math.
- Experience with networked multiplayer and a solid grasp of authoritative simulation, client prediction, and latency.
- Deterministic physics, pathfinding, character controller, or animation systems.
- Backend or server-side work for real-time multiplayer, such as matchmaking, validation, or anti-cheat.
- Bot and AI infrastructure such as state machines, behavior trees, or utility systems.
- CI for games: automated multi-client testing, regression suites, or performance dashboards.
- Background working with distributed, fully remote teams.
Company Information
Telescope Games is an independent studio based in Manchester, NH, currently operating in stealth mode. The studio works on world-class IP for mobile and PC platforms.
- Mission: Create games that unite great IP with players, spark competition, and celebrate play.
- Values:
- Opportunity to contribute at any level of the organization.
- Hire for can-do attitude, excellent communication, and strong technical fundamentals; focus on kind and helpful team members.
- Employees are a culture add, not a culture fit. Diversity is strength.
Benefits
- Fully remote work.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents.
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, and term life insurance.
- 401k with matching.
- 4 weeks paid time off, sick leave, and holiday policies.
- Paid professional development time.
- Strong work-life balance and anti-crunch policies.
Note: Not all benefits are available to part-time employees and/or applicants outside of the U.S.
Additional Terms
- Equal Employment Opportunity based on capabilities and qualifications without discrimination.
- Reasonable accommodations provided for individuals with disabilities during the application and interview process.
- No visa sponsorship offered at this time.
- E-Verify employer for U.S. applicants.
- Candidates from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.