# Senior Expert Gameplay Engineer

Job Title: Senior Expert Gameplay EngineerRequisition ID: R028132Job Description: Your Mission The Senior Expert Gameplay Engineer will work closely with Gameplay Design, Systems Design, Technical Art, Animation, and other disciplines to translate creative concepts into responsive, scalable, and maintainable gameplay systems. This role will take ownership of complex gameplay features from technical design and prototyping through implementation, iteration, optimization, and polish. This role is expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, provide technical guidance to other engineers, and help establish engineering practices and patterns that improve the quality and efficiency of the broader team. At the Senior Expert level, this role will also influence technical direction and resolve ambiguous, cross-system problems across major gameplay initiatives. Responsibilities Priorities can change in a fast-paced environment, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain complex gameplay systems and features using modern game development practices. Own significant gameplay initiatives from technical discovery and protot

- **Id**: 4159279
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/xbox-senior-expert-gameplay-engineer>
- **Role**: Games
- **Role family**: Games
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T11:42:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8651
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave, Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Console Games, Gaming Consoles, Cloud Gaming, Game Development

## Company

- **Id**: 7426
- **Name**: Xbox
- **Domain**: xbox.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/xbox>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 54
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 149100
- **Max**: 275876
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 275876

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T11:42:21Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 54
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T13:47:36Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 275876
- **Is top pay**: yes

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