# Senior Combat Designer

Abstraction is a Dutch game co-development studio aiming to deliver cutting-edge game experiences. Specializing in technically demanding projects, we have collaborated on renowned IPs like Halo, Dune, Mass Effect, and Baldur’s Gate. Our portfolio contains over 60 titles, reflecting our commitment to quality and technical prowess. We're not just partners with industry giants such as BioWare/EA, 343/Microsoft, Funcom, Sega, and others; we're innovators in our field. As aSenior Combat Designer, you will focus on the design and implementation of player combat and prototypes, with a particular emphasis on enemy creation. You will take enemies from concept through to fully playable, polished opponents, working closely with the animation team to deliver grounded, realistic combat. Your expertise in combat design, animation, and AI will ensure every encounter is readable, responsive, and satisfying, enhancing both gameplay and player experience. This is a fixed 3-month contract starting ASAP. The contract may be extended beyond the initial 3 months. Responsibilities Design, build and implement enemies end-to-end in Unreal Engine 5, from initial behaviour concept to a polished, shippable ch

- **Id**: 3817765
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/abstraction-senior-combat-designer>
- **Role**: Design
- **Role family**: Design
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Eindhoven, Netherlands
- **Countries**: NL
- **Hiring countries**: DE, GB, NL
- **Hiring countries total**: 3
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T13:55:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T02:30:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3298
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Game Development

## Company

- **Id**: 4417638
- **Name**: Abstraction
- **Domain**: abstraction.games
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/abstraction-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **Unreal Engine** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country
- **Netherlands** — Iso: NL; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T16:43:32Z

## Visa

- Country: NL; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Recognised sponsor of the Dutch immigration service (IND); Route: Highly skilled migrants and regular labour

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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