Keywords Studios
Software Testing & QA · Translation Services
79open roles
$16kmedian advertised pay
Scaling fasthiring pace, 80 of 100
Atruth index, 85 of 100
Overview
Keywords Studios is an Irish company founded in 1998 that provides the outsourced services video game publishers need but rarely want to staff themselves, and it has grown into the largest such provider through more than sixty acquisitions. Its work covers game art and animation, co-development, functional and localisation testing, translation into dozens of languages, audio recording, player support and marketing services, delivered from studios across more than twenty countries. Headquartered in Dublin and taken private by EQT in 2024, it depends on the games industry's willingness to outsource, which makes publisher cost-cutting both an opportunity and a threat.
How Keywords Studios hires
Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
41 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
60%
Reposted roles
2%
Keywords Studios scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 107 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 60% have gone stale and 2% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 41 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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Remote (Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore) · Singapore
Unity
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In office · Bachelor's Degree · Pune
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Hadoop
DevOps
Terraform
Puppet
Ansible
GCP
Heroku
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Ubuntu
IAM
Unix
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Hybrid · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Pune
Python
Java
SQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Apache Kafka
Amazon Redshift
AI/ML
Spark
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
LLM
Anomaly Detection
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Amazon Kinesis
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
Metabase
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Remote (Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam) · Contractor
Python
C#
Unity
Unreal Engine
Houdini
Substance 3D Designer
HLSL
GLSL
Design
Adobe Photoshop
3ds Max
Substance 3D Painter
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Remote (Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam) · Contractor · Bachelor's Degree
Unity
Unreal Engine
Spine
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
Adobe After Effects
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≈ $24k – $62k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Pune
Python
Go
JavaScript
Java
TypeScript
Node JS
Clojure
Weaviate
Milvus
Pinecone
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Copilot
LoRA
Fine-tuning
Embeddings
Scikit-learn
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
PEFT
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
RAG
LLMOps
SFT
LLM Guardrails
Frontend
Vue.js
Angular
React.js
DevOps
GCP
Azure
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$16k
Typical range
$16k – $148k
Open positions
6
1
Jobs
Staff
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 1 | $148k | $148k |
Highest paying role
Business Development Manager - Audio Development
$148k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Keywords Studios
By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
A-rated
Sponsor licence
Skilled Worker
Visa route
5
Open roles in United Kingdom
In the register as Keywords Studios Limited, London
Other sponsors in the same field
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USSpeaking 
Roblox Corporation 
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
80/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
159
47 opened / 40 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
43 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
11/10/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+3975%
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
29% ▼
Games
12% ▲
Management
10% ▲
QA
6% ▲
Operations
6%
Communications
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Marketing (+18 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: São Paulo
Nov 2026
Added Metabase to stack
Nov 2026
New location: Düsseldorf
Oct 2026
New location: Frankfurt am Main
Oct 2026
New location: Munich
Oct 2026
Added Make.com to stack
Oct 2026
Added CAPA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Vue.js to stack
Oct 2026
Added SFT to stack
Oct 2026
Added Scikit-learn to stack
Oct 2026
Added Milvus to stack
Oct 2026
Added Copilot to stack
Oct 2026
Financials
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2011 | — | Details |
Products
Player Support
Outsourced customer support and community management for live games. Live service games need round-the-clock support in many languages, which is impractical for all but the largest publishers to run alone.
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Audio Services
Voice recording, casting and audio production across many languages. It requires studios, engineers and actor relationships in every market, which is precisely the kind of fixed cost publishers prefer to avoid.
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Localisation and Testing
Translation into dozens of languages plus functional and compatibility testing. Both are essential to launching a game globally and neither justifies a permanent internal team at all but the largest studios.
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Game Development Services
Co-development and full development work carried out alongside a publisher's own studios. It gives publishers capacity without permanent headcount, which matters in an industry with severe boom and bust cycles.
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Art and Animation
Character, environment and animation production for game developers. Art is the largest and most labour-intensive cost in modern game production, which makes it the first thing a publisher looks to outsource.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Keywords Studios over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
216
Postings analysed
122
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python30%
C#11%
JavaScript10%
C++8%
Frameworks & libraries
Unity25%
Unreal Engine21%
Nanite4%
Lumen3%
Databases
ElasticSearch9%
PostgreSQL5%
Redis4%
YugabyteDB3%
Cloud & platforms
AWS14%
Azure11%
GCP11%
Apache Kafka7%
AI & ML
LLM7%
Claude2%
Gemini2%
LoRA2%
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216 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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|---|---|---|---|
| Same legal entity runs both sites | Pro plan | legal page | Sep 16, 2026 |
| Same legal entity named on both sites | Pro plan | legal page | Sep 16, 2026 |
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
29
Hiring now
28
Countries
16
Busiest office
Pune
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Dublin
Ireland
HQ
3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
Pune
India
Regional office
31 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 55% engineering 3% remote 1000-5000 est. staff
hires for DevOps, AI/ML, Support
Pasig
Philippines
Regional office
27 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 19% engineering 7% remote 1000-5000 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Games, HR
Katowice
Poland
Engineering / R&D
22 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 500-1000 est. staff
hires for QA
Suginami
Japan
Sales office
20 open roles 23 posted in 90 days 500-1000 est. staff $17k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Management, Customer Success
Singapore
Singapore
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 43% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Games, Backend
Montreal
Canada
Regional office
6 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 17% remote 500-1000 est. staff
hires for QA, Games, Finance
Mexico City
Mexico
Regional office
4 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff
hires for Early Careers, Management, Industrial Engineering
Gurgaon
India
Regional office
3 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Games, Support, Management
Bacolod
Philippines
Sales office
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Operations, Customer Success
Beijing
China
Regional office
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Games, Sales, Industrial Engineering
Shanghai
China
Regional office
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Games, Sales
Cinisello Balsamo
Italy
2 open roles 50-200 est. staff
hires for Finance, Early Careers
Los Angeles
United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations, Early Careers
Gateshead
United Kingdom
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Games
Quebec
Canada
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Games
Indianapolis
United States
1 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Administrative
Bengaluru
India
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Games
Berlin
Germany
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations
Barcelona
Spain
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations
Chengdu
China
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
New York
United States
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
Ottawa
Canada
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for HR
Shenzhen
China
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
Munich
Germany
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
Frankfurt am Main
Germany
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
Düsseldorf
Germany
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
São Paulo
Brazil
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games
Earlier presence
London, United Kingdom
Registered seat
Brighton, United Kingdom
Manila, Philippines