Cloud Imperium Games
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How Cloud Imperium Games hires
Truth index
B 70/100
Median time to fill
60 days
Ghost roles
42%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Cloud Imperium Games scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 33 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 42% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 60 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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Overview
Cloud Imperium Games is an independent video game developer building Star Citizen, a crowdfunded multiplayer space simulation with a persistent universe, and Squadron 42, a story-driven single-player game set in the same universe. Founded in 2012 in Austin, Texas by Chris Roberts, it has passed one billion dollars in community funding and employs more than 1,000 people across studios including Manchester in the UK and Montreal, where its Turbulent studio merged into the company in 2023. It hires gameplay, AI, graphics, tools, animation and UI programmers, level and mission designers, DevOps engineers, and brand, campaign and social media managers.
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Cloud Imperium Financials for 2021
CIG's Chief Financial Officer Presents Our Accounting for the 2021 Financial Year
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Squadron 42: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners
Now that we've wrapped up the Anniversary Event, I wanted to give you all a couple updates.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cloud Imperium Games over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
44
Postings analysed
23
Stack modernity
71/100AI adopter
Languages
C++30%
Python22%
C#4%
PowerShell4%
Frameworks & libraries
CryEngine4%
Qt4%
Unity4%
Unreal Engine4%
Cloud & platforms
Windows13%
AWS9%
Azure9%
GCP9%
AI & ML
Claude9%
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44 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
People
Erin David Roberts
Directors
Christopher Roberts
Directors
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
37/100
Slowing
Open positions
33
2 opened / 7 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
47 days
faster than 28% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~2 days
10/26/2026
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
27% ▲
Games
23% ▲
QA
8% ▲
Design
8% ▼
Industrial Engineering
8% ▲
AI/ML
4% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Blender to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Added OSPF to stack
Sep 2026
Added BGP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
+6 jobs in a week
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
4
Busiest office
Manchester
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Manchester
United Kingdom
Regional office
Manchester
24 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Games, Marketing, Industrial Engineering
Montreal
Canada
Engineering / R&D
Montreal
9 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 78% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Games, DevOps
Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Regional office
Frankfurt
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Communications
Austin
United States
Austin
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing
Jobs
≈ $87k – $155k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Manchester
C++
Qt
AI/ML
llama.cpp
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Machine Learning
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≈ $53k – $108k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Montreal
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ZBrush
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≈ $53k – $134k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Montreal
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≈ $50k – $110k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Montreal
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≈ $57k – $143k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Manchester
C++
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≈ $67k – $120k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Montreal
Python
C++
Windows
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≈ $53k – $133k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Manchester
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Design
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≈ $44k – $125k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Manchester
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Design
3ds Max
Adobe After Effects
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≈ $92k – $163k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Manchester
C++
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≈ $57k – $143k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Manchester
C++
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