HoYoverse
Who Are We?
HoYoverse is committed to providing immersive virtual world experiences to players around the world. We have brought fans popular games including Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, and Zenless Zone Zero, as well as a wide range of entertainment content.
Community is at the heart of everything we do. We are devoted to engaging fans and fostering an enthusiastic and inclusive global community that provides access and encouragement for people to share their passion for ACG (Animation, Comics, and Games) through their own creativity and skills.
Pushing the boundaries of imagination, we consistently explore cutting-edge game development technologies, and have accumulated leading technical capabilities in cel shading, cloud gaming, and other fields.
In the future, we will continue to expand our content production, technology research, and publishing duties through operations in offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas.
When you apply to a position with HoYoverse, we will process your personal data. To learn more about how we process your data, we encourage you to review our comprehensive Global Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy. This policy provides detailed insights into how your information is collected, used, and protected throughout the application process.
Job Description:
We are seeking a skilled and dedicated Quest Designer to join our development team. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a cutting-edge open-world project focused on deep, player-driven storytelling and gameplay.
As a Quest Designer, you will be responsible for both quest and level design within an open-world framework, crafting non-linear quest structures that give players meaningful choices and lasting impact on the world around them. Working closely with writers, designers, artists, and programmers, you will build interconnected quest systems that serve the game's living world and narrative vision.
What You Will Do:
- Design, develop, and implement non-linear quests that support player agency and branch meaningfully based on player decisions
- Build quest structures that influence ongoing storylines and downstream content, rewarding exploration and player-driven choices
- Own both quest and level design within an open-world context, ensuring levels support organic discovery and multiple paths through content
- Collaborate with writers, worldbuilders, artists, and programmers to ensure quests integrate deeply with the game's world, lore, and systemic design
- Partner with dedicated level designers on combat spaces and exploration areas to achieve natural gameplay flow
- Use visual scripting tools to implement quest logic, branching event structures, and detailed mission flow documentation
- Playtest quests and levels, gather feedback, and iterate based on player experience and team insights
- Maintain high-quality standards, ensuring quests are polished, consistent, and free of design or logic issues
What We Are Looking For:
- At least 3 years of experience in quest or level design for video games, with a portfolio demonstrating open-world or non-linear quest design
- Hands-on experience designing branching quest structures, player choice systems, and world-reactive narratives
- Proven ability to build character relationships through quest design, with experience crafting suspense-driven narrative missions
- Proficiency in visual scripting tools such as Unreal Engine Blueprints; experience in other engines is a plus
- Experience integrating quest design with world-building and lore
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple disciplines
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities; comfortable iterating based on test feedback
- A meticulous approach to quality and design consistency
Benefits:
The base pay range for this position is $80,000 to $150,000 USD per year. Actual pay is based on location and may vary depending on relevant knowledge, skills, and experience from the candidate. Total compensation may include salary, company bonuses, sign-on bonuses, relocation package, and other benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds are key to bringing our concepts to life. If you're looking to play a key role in creating the best immersive virtual world experience for our users, we invite you to join our team.
Ready to apply?
Apply to HoYoverse
Who Are We?
HoYoverse is committed to providing immersive virtual world experiences to players around the world. We have brought fans popular games including Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, and Zenless Zone Zero, as well as a wide range of entertainment content.
Community is at the heart of everything we do. We are devoted to engaging fans and fostering an enthusiastic and inclusive global community that provides access and encouragement for people to share their passion for ACG (Animation, Comics, and Games) through their own creativity and skills.
Pushing the boundaries of imagination, we consistently explore cutting-edge game development technologies, and have accumulated leading technical capabilities in cel shading, cloud gaming, and other fields.
In the future, we will continue to expand our content production, technology research, and publishing duties through operations in offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas.
When you apply to a position with HoYoverse, we will process your personal data. To learn more about how we process your data, we encourage you to review our comprehensive Global Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy. This policy provides detailed insights into how your information is collected, used, and protected throughout the application process.
- Participate in the design and development of game AI systems for the Varsapura project, including NPC behavior, decision-making, pathfinding, and perception systems, contributing to a believable and immersive game world.
- Collaborate closely with designers, artists, and engineers to translate gameplay designs into stable, high-performance code implementations.
- Participate in the development and optimization of AI-related modules in Unreal Engine; work through performance bottlenecks to ensure a smooth player experience.
- Participate in game server development — implementing gameplay features, ensuring server stability under high concurrency and high player load, and supporting live operations.
- Explore and apply cutting-edge AI technologies — including AIGC, large language models, and AI Agents — to game content generation, development workflow automation, or intelligent tooling.
- Take part in technical design reviews and contribute to the team's knowledge sharing and best practice accumulation in game AI.
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; 3+ years of relevant game development experience.
- Solid CS fundamentals with deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and networking.
- Proficient in C++ or C#, with strong understanding of language internals and good code architecture skills.
- Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine (UE4/UE5) in a real production environment.
- Systematic understanding of game AI — familiar with behavior trees, state machines, pathfinding algorithms (e.g., A*, NavMesh), and related techniques.
- Strong problem-solving ability; capable of independently owning module design and delivery.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively in a multicultural, international team environment.
- Shipped experience on a large-scale commercial game title.
- Research or production experience with AIGC, code LLMs, AI automation, or AI Agent frameworks.
- Familiarity with machine learning or reinforcement learning fundamentals, with practical experience applying them to game AI.
- Experience in game server development; knowledge of high-concurrency and distributed system design.
- Prior experience working on overseas projects or in cross-regional teams.
We are an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds are key to bringing our concepts to life. If you're looking to play a key role in creating the best immersive virtual world experience for our users, we invite you to join our team.
Ready to apply?
Apply to HoYoverse
Who Are We?
HoYoverse is committed to providing immersive virtual world experiences to players around the world. We have brought fans popular games including Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, and Zenless Zone Zero, as well as a wide range of entertainment content.
Community is at the heart of everything we do. We are devoted to engaging fans and fostering an enthusiastic and inclusive global community that provides access and encouragement for people to share their passion for ACG (Animation, Comics, and Games) through their own creativity and skills.
Pushing the boundaries of imagination, we consistently explore cutting-edge game development technologies, and have accumulated leading technical capabilities in cel shading, cloud gaming, and other fields.
In the future, we will continue to expand our content production, technology research, and publishing duties through operations in offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas.
When you apply to a position with HoYoverse, we will process your personal data. To learn more about how we process your data, we encourage you to review our comprehensive Global Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy. This policy provides detailed insights into how your information is collected, used, and protected throughout the application process.
- Participate in the development of a large-scale commercial game; collaborate closely with designers and artists to translate gameplay designs into stable, scalable code implementations.
- Work on game AI systems within Unreal Engine — including NPC behavior, pathfinding, and decision-making — or contribute to other client-side modules such as gameplay logic, character controllers, UI systems, and scene management.
- Alternatively, participate in game server development: implementing gameplay features, ensuring server stability under high concurrency, and supporting live operations.
- Explore and apply AI techniques — including AIGC, LLM-assisted tooling, AI automation, or AI Agents — to improve game quality or development efficiency.
- Identify and resolve technical challenges in areas such as network synchronization, memory optimization, and rendering performance to ensure a smooth player experience.
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; solid CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and networking.
- Passionate about programming; proficient in at least one language commonly used in game development (C++, C#, Go, etc.), with a solid understanding of its underlying principles.
- Systematic programming mindset — able to break down complex problems and design clear, maintainable solutions.
- Strong logical thinking and communication skills; collaborative team player with genuine curiosity and drive to tackle hard technical problems.
- Strong self-learning ability; proactively follows new technology trends in game development.
- Any game project experience — coursework, internship, personal demo, or game jam.
- Familiarity with Unreal Engine, Unity, or other game engines.
- Passionate about games; pays attention to the interaction details and technical implementation of well-crafted titles.
- Open source contributions, a technical blog, or a GitHub portfolio.
- Experience with AIGC, code LLMs, AI automation, AI Agents, or related AI applications is a strong plus.
We are an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds are key to bringing our concepts to life. If you're looking to play a key role in creating the best immersive virtual world experience for our users, we invite you to join our team.
Ready to apply?
Apply to HoYoverse
Who Are We?
HoYoverse is committed to providing immersive virtual world experiences to players around the world. We have brought fans popular games including Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Honkai Impact 3rd, Tears of Themis, and Zenless Zone Zero, as well as a wide range of entertainment content.
Community is at the heart of everything we do. We are devoted to engaging fans and fostering an enthusiastic and inclusive global community that provides access and encouragement for people to share their passion for ACG (Animation, Comics, and Games) through their own creativity and skills.
Pushing the boundaries of imagination, we consistently explore cutting-edge game development technologies, and have accumulated leading technical capabilities in cel shading, cloud gaming, and other fields.
In the future, we will continue to expand our content production, technology research, and publishing duties through operations in offices in Singapore, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul, and other areas.
When you apply to a position with HoYoverse, we will process your personal data. To learn more about how we process your data, we encourage you to review our comprehensive Global Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy. This policy provides detailed insights into how your information is collected, used, and protected throughout the application process.
What You Will Do:
- Design and produce characters or monsters, covering gameplay aspects, skills, AI, artistic performance, and ecological attributes.
- Foster open communication with fellow game designers and artists to synchronize numerical design, layout, level gameplay, and artistic performance. Through this collaborative process, identify new production pipeline requests, and follow up on their development progress.
- Identify requests for new mechanisms and functions during game production; collaborate closely with programmers to determine solutions and follow up on their development status.
What We Are Looking For:
- Passion for games with extensive player experience across a variety of genres, including action games, open-world games, RPGs, and more. Possess a deep understanding of game combat mechanics.
- Proficient in at least one commercial game engine with the capability to independently create simple prototypes.
Bonus Points:
- Experience in Unity development and a programming or technical foundation for understanding code.
- Experience in creating game demos.
Application Instructions:
- Please provide details of your personal gaming experience and any relevant works (if applicable). Your gaming experience should include the names of games you have played, the duration of gameplay, and any notable achievements you have earned.
We are an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds are key to bringing our concepts to life. If you're looking to play a key role in creating the best immersive virtual world experience for our users, we invite you to join our team.
Ready to apply?
Apply to HoYoverse