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Skydance · 1 day ago

Technical Director, R & D

Santa Monica, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$230K/yr - $250K/yr

Skydance Games is a division of Paramount creating the future of interactive entertainment. They are seeking a technical leader to drive game-related research and development, focusing on new technologies for immersive storytelling in games.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Drive game related research and development, with a focus on developing new tech that enables the next generation of immersive storytelling in games

Work with technical leadership across multiple games to build a roadmap of feature exploration

Grow a team of engineers to deliver new technologies

Qualification

Unreal EngineGame development processTechnical leadershipBuilding engineering teamsDeveloping game technologies

Required

Strong technical leadership skills, able to architect plans and solutions to drive technology development

Extensive collaboration and communication skills, both with engineers and cross-discipline. Able to articulate complex technical challenges to non-technical colleagues

Deep understanding of the game development process, encompassing both current technical challenges face by developers, and having ideas for future development features / pipelines

Shipped multiple titles using Unreal Engine

Several years of experience building and managing engineering teams

Experience developing new game related technologies, both to support development and to provide new features for games

Company

Skydance

Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences.

Founded in 2010

Santa Monica, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://skydance.com

H1B Sponsorship

Skydance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (48)

2024 (39)

2023 (33)

2022 (53)

2021 (44)

2020 (53)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$1.68B

Key Investors

JP MorganKohlberg Kravis RobertsRedBird Capital Partners

2025-08-07IPO

2023-07-11Debt Financing· $1B

2022-10-13Private Equity· $400M

Leadership Team

Brian Green

Character Supervisor

Jon Weinbach

President, Skydance Sports

Recent News

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San Bernardino Sun

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2025-11-20

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