Jobs at 2K

• Own and lead the development of narrative systems for the game, including runtime technology, authoring workflows, tool integrations, and long-term technical direction.
• Architect, develop, and maintain cinematic and narrative systems in Unreal Engine 5 that support high-quality story moments, scripted events, branching content, and interactive presentation.

• Leverage a deep understanding of how our titles’ game features & mechanics work and our business priorities to deliver actionable, business-impacting insights
• Support business narratives and develop business cases with effective data storytelling. Focus on using data and hypothesis-driven decision-making to drive future growth and customer lifetime value

• Provide technical leadership and management for the Partner Success organization's TAM and Solution Engineering teams, setting standards for how technical delivery is scoped, staffed, and executed.
• Own technical strategy for partner engagements — from architecture evaluation and SDK implementation through configuration and ongoing support — ensuring consistency and quality across the partner base.

• Design, architect, and implement defensive security controls for Amazon AWS, Microsoft Windows and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
• Serve as the go-to resource on our public cloud environments, with a focus on Cloud IAM, Network Security, Network Policy, and orchestration technologies.

• Develop combat behavior: target prioritization, hero-appropriate weapon and ability use, movement, and disengagement
• Develop humanization: tunable aim, reaction time, and error models across difficulty levels

• Lead Technology engagement with selected 2K studios to Facilitate adoption of Technology shared services and platforms
• Advocate on behalf of studios for new features and capabilities

• AI Strategy & Execution: Own the strategic roadmap and oversee the architectural delivery of our developer portal, utilizing AI and LLM-backed agentic workflows to automate complex environment bootstrapping, context-aware troubleshooting, and intent-driven infrastructure provisioning.
• Technical Leadership: Accountable for driving the technical strategic roadmap within Platform ...

• Collaborate closely with gameplay engineers / designers to identify and develop new gameplay features
• Feature owner of key animation-driven gameplay mechanics, including complex locomotion, physical duels, and intricate foot-to-object interactions

• Drive technical decisions across the SDK portfolio set by the Director and through collaboration with the team. Defend the architectural direction for how our SDKs are designed, layered, versioned, and evolved across Unreal, Unity, native C++, Go, JavaScript, and other targets.
• Ensure architectural consistency across language and engine variants so every studio gets a pre...

• Design, implement, optimize, and maintain real-time rendering systems and features in Unreal Engine.
• Own features from R&D and prototyping through production, balancing visual quality, workflow, performance, memory, and maintainability.

• Infrastructure Optimization: Maintain, monitor, and optimize Perforce Helix Core infrastructure to ensure high availability, peak performance, and enterprise-grade security.
• System Administration: Oversee complex server configurations, triggers, permissions, and multi-tool integrations to support global development workflows.

• Design, build, and operate scalable multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure using Terraform, Pulumi, and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Own Kubernetes platforms (EKS, GKE) end-to-end cluster lifecycle, multi-tenancy, networking (Istio, Cilium), and autoscaling.

• Create gameplay, AI, and scripted animation that matches the visual style of the game, using both keyframe and augmented mocap techniques.
• Work closely with programmers and designers to support a multitude of features.

Who We Are

Founded in 2023, 2K Sports Lab is the newest stand alone studio at 2K looking to push game development boundaries to bring 2K's next groundbreaking sports franchise to life. We're building a world-class team at our new Vancouver, BC location where our goal is to deliver an exceptional...

2K Sports LabWho We Are
Founded in 2023, 2K Sports Lab is the newest stand alone studio at 2K looking to push game development boundaries to bring 2K's next groundbreaking sports franchise to life. We're building a world-class team at our new Vancouver, BC location where our goal is to deliver an...

• Work in the backend architecture and services that support NBA 2K’s online features
• Design and optimize distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance

• Execute creative technical solutions based on concept art and art direction.
• Translate Art direction into rendering code, shaders and systems.

2K Sports Lab
Who We Are

Founded in 2023, 2K Sports Lab is the newest stand alone studio at 2K looking to push game development boundaries to bring 2K's next groundbreaking sports franchise to life. We're building a world-class team at our new Vancouver, BC location where our goal is to deliver ...