Game Play Engineer, Battle Road

About the role

Shaping gameplay behavior inside a simulation platform ensures features align with design intent and operational constraints. You guarantee that systems remain technically feasible, performant, and maintainable for critical planning workflows. This work directly supports modeling and simulation environments where responsiveness and correctness determine outcomes.

Software engineers turn product ideas into working code. Engineers work in small teams, review each other's work, and ship in small batches. Most teams follow agile practices such as sprints and daily standups. Engineers also write tests, fix bugs, and improve performance. The field values clear communication as much as technical skill. Engineers spend part of every week on planning, code review, and debugging, not just writing new code. The ability to explain a technical decision in plain words separates strong engineers from the rest.

Key facts

What you'll do

Translate specifications into implementations by building new gameplay systems and player-facing capabilities inside AtomEngine with Godot, GDScript, and C++. Sustain high performance and responsiveness across diverse scenarios and scales through profiling, analysis, and optimization. Structure logic by clarifying where client and server processing occurs, how state replicates, and how latency and scale affect player behavior.

Requirements

Ship and support live service games for 3+ years while operating in game engine or gameplay engineering roles. Demonstrate familiarity with engines such as Godot, Unity, or Unreal through shipped projects and operational experience. Optimize system performance with evidence of profiling, measurement, and improvement work. Maintain a player-centric mindset that accounts for scale and mass-user interactions. Meet federal contract requirements by holding U.S. Citizenship for this position.

Practical notes

Team members work remotely and in operational environments worldwide, with some collaboration occurring alongside customers. Certain settings may require U.S. citizenship and adherence to specific clearance or travel conditions. Typical interview steps

Hiring for engineering roles usually starts with a recruiter screen, followed by one or two technical rounds. Candidates often solve a coding problem, discuss past projects, and answer system design questions. Some loops include a take-home task. Final rounds typically cover team fit and give candidates a chance to ask questions. Interviewers look for how you break down an unfamiliar problem, not just whether you reach the answer. Practicing a few problems aloud and reviewing your own past projects are the best preparation.

Good to know

Real-time interactive systems demand responsiveness under load and tight schedules. Toolchains often rely on engines like Godot and C++ for performance and control. Balancing correctness, scalability, and delivery schedules is common in simulation and modeling fields.

Questions to ask

Worth asking in any interview: how the team measures success, who the role works with daily, what the onboarding looks like, and what the company is trying to achieve this year. Asking what past hires did well is a strong final question. Keep the list short and pick the questions that matter most to you.

Career growth

Engineering careers usually progress from individual contributor to senior, staff, and principal levels. Some engineers move into management and lead teams of five to twenty people. Others stay on the technical track. Growth follows demonstrated impact, not tenure alone. A typical engineering ladder has clear levels with defined expectations for scope, quality, and mentorship. Moving up usually requires owning outcomes end to end rather than completing assigned tickets.

About the company

Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. By transforming this work, Onebrief makes the staff as a whole superhuman - meaning faster, smarter, and more efficient. We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team.