Jobs at Naughty Dog

• Analyze gameplay telemetry, player feedback, and research findings to identify trends, friction points, and opportunities across systems and features.
• Translate complex datasets into clear insights and recommendations that inform design, prioritization, and development strategy.

• Lead, mentor, and manage the performance of the IT Support team, including contract support personnel, ensuring consistent service quality and operational excellence.
• Ensure timely, effective, and customer-focused support for local and remote users.

• Tackling complex problems: Design, develop, and support technology in our production pipeline from DCC tools, throughout our asset management and conditioning pipeline, down to the supporting runtime game systems
• Work with and enable artists and designers to create incredible assets throughout all stages of...

• Create high quality animation content in Maya and implement them correctly in our Naughty Dog engine
• Conceptualize, collaborate, and prototype ideas through mood boards and investigative animations

• Work with artists, technical artists, and engineers to design, implement and maintain new workflows that will help streamline and enhance our tools, shaders, and processes
• Use provided concept art and references to create highly detailed character and creature models

• Track, manage, and organize all IT hardware and software assets, ensuring accurate lifecycle visibility
• Coordinate the shipping, receiving, tagging, and inventory updates of new and returning equipment

• Coordinating and implementing dialogue for the following:

Gameplay/Story dialogue scenarios
In-game cinematics
NPC AI driven dialogue systems
Non-verbal vocal exertion tagging on animations

• Gameplay/Story dialogue scenarios

• Develop the team’s shader tech. Implement high-level features (examples: skin, cloth, wetness, and mud packages). Maintain low-level shader code organization and optimization
• Develop high-level lighting and post-processing features (examples: film grain, health effects, underwater rendering)