{"id":1165640,"url":"https://alion.io/job/culmen-international-gaming-designer","title":"Gaming Designer","company":{"id":449741,"name":"Culmen International","domain":"culmen.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/culmen-international","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Games","role_family":"Games","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T02:47:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T05:48:25Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About the Role\nCulmen International is seeking a Gaming Designer.\nThis position involves designing and developing serious games, simulation-supported activities, and interactive exercise experiences for public health and medical preparedness, response, recovery, and continuity missions. The position transforms exercise objectives, operational plans, threat information, and subject-matter expertise into realistic game mechanics, scenarios, participant decisions, and multimedia products that enable readiness and improve performance.\nWhat You’ll Do in Your New Role\nDesign, develop, test, facilitate, and refine serious games and simulation-supported activities for federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, regional, and interagency audiences.\nTranslate exercise objectives, plans, policies, capabilities, corrective actions, and operational challenges into game concepts, rules, roles, decision points, scenario modules, and measurable outcomes.\nDevelop realistic scenarios, storylines, injects, timelines, participant materials, facilitation questions, control-cell products, and Master Scenario Events Lists.\nApply HSEEP doctrine and sound instructional, experiential-learning, and game-design principles to seminars, workshops, tabletop exercises, games, drills, functional exercises, and full-scale exercises.\nIncorporate computer simulation, model outputs, visual interfaces, video vignettes, video injects, and virtual-delivery capabilities into exercise programs when appropriate.\nCollaborate with modeling and simulation specialists, systems designers, planners, facilitators, evaluators, analysts, multimedia personnel, and subject matter experts to produce integrated exercise experiences.\nSupport concept and objectives meetings, initial and midterm planning meetings, in-progress reviews, MSEL development and synchronization meetings, final planning meetings, exercise execution, hotwashes, and after-action meetings.\nPrototype and playtest game mechanics and supporting materials; collect participant and stakeholder feedback and revise products to improve realism, usability, accessibility, and alignment with objectives.\nDevelop evaluation criteria and data-collection opportunities that allow exercise teams to assess decisions, actions, coordination, plans, policies, and corrective-action implementation.\nReview technical and analytical products and interpret modeling or simulation results for incorporation into exercise design and real-time participant play.\nPrepare and deliver briefings, demonstrations, facilitator guidance, participant instructions, technical documentation, and decision-support materials.\nMaintain awareness of current industry standards, emerging technologies, virtual environments, and best practices in serious gaming, simulation, and exercise design.\nComplete recurring and short-turn assignments within established deadlines and maintain accessible, organized project files and deliverables.\nTravel as authorized to support planning conferences, exercise delivery, evaluation, training, real-world response activities, or stakeholder meetings.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in game design, simulation, instructional design, emergency management, public health, computer science, digital media, or a related field.\nRelevant experience designing games, simulations, or interactive exercises for the U.S. Government or another complex operational organization.\nExperience developing scenarios, game mechanics, injects, participant materials, facilitation content, and exercise-support products.\nExperience incorporating technical data, model results, or simulation capabilities into realistic decision-based activities.\nAbility to interpret operational requirements and convert complex subject matter into clear, engaging, and objective-driven participant experiences.\nAbility to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.\nProficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and the ability to learn and use Government-provided exercise, collaboration, multimedia, and virtual-delivery tools.\nAbility to manage multiple concurrent priorities and respond effectively to short-notice or surge requirements.\nDesired Qualifications\nKnowledge of HSEEP doctrine and experience supporting the full exercise planning, conduct, evaluation, and improvement-planning cycle.\nExperience supporting public health preparedness, emergency management, incident response, continuity, consequence modeling, or interagency operations.\nExperience creating visual interfaces, video vignettes, video injects, digital game assets, or virtual simulation environments.\nExperience facilitating games or exercises for senior leaders, government personnel, emergency responders, healthcare partners, or interagency audiences.\nFamiliarity with the National Response Framework, National Incident Management System, Emergency Support Function #8, and federal preparedness and response doctrine.\nExperience developing accessible digital and multimedia products consistent with Section 508 requirements.\nAbout the Company\nCulmen International is committed to enhancing international safety and security, strengthening homeland defense, advancing humanitarian missions, and optimizing government operations. With experience in over 150 countries, Culmen supports our clients to accomplish critical missions in challenging environments.\nExceptional Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance, premiums for employees are 100% paid by Culmen, and dependent coverage is available at a nominal rate (including same or opposite sex domestic partners)\n\n401k - Vested immediately and 4% match\nLife insurance and disability paid by the company\nSupplemental Insurance Available\nOpportunities for Training and Continuing Education\n12 Paid Holidays\nTo learn more about Culmen International, please visit www.culmen.com\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6217,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Life insurance","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Data & Analytics","Information Technology"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T02:47:49Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":9,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/culmen-international-gaming-designer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/culmen-international-gaming-designer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T15:29:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}