Crystal Dynamics - Gameplay Engineer Intern [Spring 2027]

• Practical Project Involvement: Contribute to active game development efforts while learning production scope, workflows, and the advanced tools used across modern AAA pipelines. • Practical Project Involvement: • Professional Mentorship: Receive guidance from experienced professionals with deep industry knowledge. • Professional Mentorship: • Skill Development: Expand your skill set, establishing a solid foundation for your professional journey. • Skill Development: • Team Collaboration: Work alongside our dedicated onsite and remote teams including fellow interns, building valuable professional relationships within the gaming industry. • Team Collaboration: • Work with engineers and designers to implement gameplay features in Unreal Engine, using both C++ and visual scripting workflows to support production needs. • Participate in game development tasks including debugging, testing, implementation support, and code integration within Unreal Engine. • Build essential skills using industry-standard tools such as Unreal Engine, development environments, source control tools, and code review workflows. • Support engineers by assisting with coding, debugging, optimizing, and contributions to gameplay systems, tools, and supporting code. • Deepen your understanding of Unreal Engine development workflows and collaborative engineering practices in a production environment. • What Makes You Stand Out: • Experience with C++ game development, especially within Unreal Engine. • Familiarity with Unreal Engine Blueprints or visual scripting, with an interest in building reliable gameplay code. • Strong debugging, problem-solving, and linear algebra fundamentals. • Exposure to industry-standard development software, tools and engines. • Industry involvement outside classroom curriculum such as game jams, personal projects and/or contributions to group projects that show going above and beyond. • Willingness to tackle challenges, learn from feedback, and adapt to new tools or workflows. • Ability to communicate your ideas with eagerness to learn and turn feedback into action. • Compensation & Benefits:   Compensation for this internship is $22-25/hr. Compensation is location-based and will be aligned to the intern’s confirmed work location during the program. Interns are also eligible for a medical, dental, and vision benefits package. Your recruiter can provide more information about total compensation.   Check out our Crystal Dynamics Internship FAQ page for additional questions.  Thank you for your interest in an internship at Crystal Dynamics. We can't wait to see what you bring to our world of game development!