Blackbird Interactive

Join Blackbird Interactive as a Technical Designer and help develop the gameplay for an exciting new co-operative, horror-based exploration game. Prototype, implement, and iterate on gameplay content, collaborate with artists and designers, and improve design workflows. Work with producers and team leadership to assess requirements and provide effort estimates.

Drive the design and implementation of moment-to-moment systems that define the player experience as a senior gameplay engineer. Partner closely with design, art, and production to shape gameplay architecture, solve cross-disciplinary challenges, and mentor engineers while pushing the boundaries of what's possible in Unreal Engine 5. This role is remote-friendly in Canada (Pacific-time overlap required).

You’ll optimize performance and memory usage, wrangle platform SDKs and TRCs, and collaborate with teams to ensure stability, compliance, and smooth builds across platforms—especially consoles. The role is remote-friendly in Canada and requires Pacific-time overlap.

Blackbird Interactive is seeking an experienced Game Designer to help develop and execute gameplay on a co-operative, horror-based exploration game. This role involves leading a team in building compelling game worlds and gameplay systems and working with talented developers to create new and exciting gameplay experiences.

Looking for an associate gameplay engineer with strong technical foundations and a passion for moment-to-moment play to contribute to systems like movement, combat, and progression, while learning Unreal Engine 5’s architecture and workflows, making a direct impact on the player experience.

We're looking for an Animator to help drive the modernization of a high-profile real-time strategy game. Joining a small, fast-moving team working on a beloved RTS IP, the focus will be on character and building animations, and contributing towards a clean and scalable animation/content pipeline. We support remote, in-studio (Vancouver, BC), and hybrid working arrangements across Canada.

You’ll set technical direction for a high-profile remaster of a beloved RTS. Lead modernization and polish across core gameplay and systems, champion quality-of-life improvements, and raise the technical bar across a large-scale RTS codebase. Own pillars end-to-end and partner closely with design and art.