Bungie is seeking a User Interface Artist/Designer to work with game designers to help develop new user interface experiences through the creation of illustrations and motion graphic prototypes. Candidates should possess exceptional visual and user interface design skills, as well as experience in user-centered design. The applicant must exercise a good eye for aesthetics but at the same time be able to grasp and distill highly complex issues.

Essential Functions:

• Create illustrations and example screens as well as simple prototypes to help iterate on UI design ideas.
• Work alongside art directors and game designers to concept, create and test 2D designs as the visual interface that drives players through our games.

Other Qualifications:

• Expertise in visual design using Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and/or other design related software is highly desirable as well as experience in sketching and storyboarding of UIs.
• Intense curiosity, creativity and the keen ability to stay abreast of positive trends in game design, software and industrial design.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both verbal and visual
• Fearless and creative approach to solving challenging, complex problems.
• Burning desire to break the mold to take game interfaces to uncharted waters.
• Proven ability to thoroughly document complex and detailed design plans.
• Strong organization skills.
• Willingness to take design direction when offered, and the ability to work independently when it isn’t.
• Submissions without portfolios of previous UI design work will not be considered.
• A degree in design related studies (i.e. Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Art) is preferred.

Location: Kirkland, WA, 100% on-site

Estimated Duration: 6 months (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie’s Visual Design Team is looking to hire a gifted Motion Graphic Artist to craft magnificent works worthy of the kick ass games we make. Candidates must wield an impeccable command of the production process, from initial concept boarding to final editing, and should be able to showcase their mastery of creative strategies for both entertainment and marketing productions.

Essential Qualifications

• Professional experience utilizing the standard motion graphic toolset including, but not limited to: Advanced After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Cinema 4D, (Maya and Max expertise will be a big plus)
• In depth knowledge of visual design, composition, color theory and understanding of how to communicate effectively with design and motion graphics
• A portfolio exhibiting motion graphics, web design, graphic design and storyboard and sketch expertise
• A fun and hard working designer, demonstrating a sense of humor, excellent work ethic and the ability to work in a deadline driven and sometimes chaotic work environment

Other Qualifications

• 5-10 years of work related experience required. Experience in graphic design for applications required and a focus on games is strongly desired
• Must have the ability to understand technology issues and communicate information effectively
• Knowledge and use of style manuals, reference materials, layout skills while showing ingenuity and creativity with unique concept and ideas
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Industrial Design or related area required
• A combination of education and experience may substitute for a Bachelor's degree
• Online Portfolio review required

Location: Kirkland, WA, 100% on-site

Estimated Duration: 6 months (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).
Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Help Bungie’s Visual Design team create unique and inspiring work. Our ideal Graphic Designer will meld multiple facets of design including print, web, game, PR, marketing product development and video to dream up brilliantly unconventional graphic designs, and then forge them into real world design elements.

Essential Qualifications

• Knowledgeable in the many and varied graphic design techniques and styles, and capable of implementing their visual paradigms effectively.
• Must have a highly collaborative nature, capable of working and communicating designs with both internal groups and external agencies and studios.
• Production experience necessary to follow through on projects from conception to delivery
• Strong communicator, coupled with acute time management skills to meet deadlines and adapt in a fast paced environment required.
• Technical aptitude and the ability to learn quickly are required, as the Halo engine uses a collection of proprietary tools
• Knowledge and use of style manuals, reference materials, layout skills and print production experience.

Other Qualifications

• 3-5 years of work related experience required.
• Must be knowledgeable in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign.
• Having a focus on games is strongly desired, but not required
• Must have the ability to understand technology issues and communicate information effectively.
• Strong communication skills along with ability to meet deadlines and adapt in a fast paced environment required.
• Must have strong attention to detail and be able to work as a team player.
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Industrial Design or related area required.
• A combination of education and experience may substitute for a Bachelor's degree.
• Must have Online Portfolio.

Location: Kirkland, WA, 100% on-site

Estimated Duration: 6 months. However, while it’s our intent to be as accurate as possible, the duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Are you a Character Rigger who is never satisfied with the status quo, but constantly driven to innovate improvements in the artistic process? Are you fearless in the face of the unknown, secure in your ability to learn as you go? Are you on an endless quest to fight entropy and complacency? If so, we want to hear from you! As one of our Character Riggers you’ll be assisting in the weighting and rigging of characters as well as maintaining a library of game assets for the animators. You will also be retargeting animation for our characters from a variety of sources.

Essential Qualifications

• Rig characters using our proprietary toolset
• Retarget animation from a variety of sources
• Researching & prototyping new character body & face deformation technologies
• Become an expert on Bungie’s animation system

Other Required Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Maya character rigging
• Good eye for animation detail
• Experience with animation retargeting using Maya, Motion Builder or similar programs
• Good communication skills with both Engineers and Artists
• Strong Python/PyMel skills are essential
• Experience with C# and/or MAX Script highly valuable
• Obsession for creating great tools

Location: Kirkland, WA, 100% on-site

Estimated Duration: 3-6 months (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you dream about creating worlds imbued with real value and consequence? Can you find the fine line between a reward that encourages players to have fun and an incentive that enslaves them? Can you devise a way for a player to grow while preserving the delicate balance of an action game? If you answered yes to these questions (and you are a passionate work-a-holic game-o-phile) you might want to polish up your resume and apply to be Bungie’s next Player Investment Designer.

A Player Investment Designer develops a robust and rewarding investment path, supported by consistent, rich and secure incentives that drives player behavior toward having fun and investing in their characters, and then validates those systems through intense simulation, testing and iteration.

Responsibilities

• Designing mechanics which drive in-game player reward and incentives.
• Give players long-term goals to invest them in the world and their character.
• Prevent by design griefing or exploiting any of the above systems.
• Run simulations of these mechanics based on expected player behavior.
• Test these simulated results against actual player behavior and tuning the live system.

Qualifications

• Experience with many modes of online play .
• Experience with online incentives (achievements, rewards, economic, etc) and a passion for understanding what drives player behavior within them.
• Solid math skills.
• A thirst for problems to solve.
• Command of Microsoft Excel.
• Outstanding organizational skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to work well under deadlines.
• Ability to work well in a team environment.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you believe that analysis of the human-computer system is fundamental to successful, efficient, and effective video game design and development? Have you ever determined player's psychological reactions to fixed vs. variable item respawn rates, or in game activities that involve maintenance and degrade with time? Can you describe 20 ways in which the local ATM could have a better user experience, and pull the data off the internet to back it up? Do you daydream of examining the exploratory behavior used by dolphins in the perception of affordances? If so, you just might be the ideal candidate to become Bungie's next User Research Design Lead.

As Bungie’s User Research Design Lead, you will drive our efforts for understanding how users interact with our games. This ranges from pre-release usability studies and user playtests, to long term gameplay analysis covering years of data gathering. You will engage directly with the Bungie design team to cultivate your knowledge of the desired experience. With that knowledge and your expertise in user research, you will isolate the important questions to ask. You will design and manage usability tests, define datamining instrumentation, perform data analysis, and present your answers to those questions through impactful visualizations, written analysis, and collaborations that inform our ongoing and future design plans. Thus, taking us all one step further toward world domination, and happy dolphins.

Responsibilities

• Define our user research strategy, including research methodologies and lab infrastructure.
• Collaborate with other leads to drive our implementation strategy for datamining and instrumentation.
• Analyze the data in meaningful ways.
• Present your analysis and recommendations through powerful visualizations and concise reports.
• Do all of this across the spectrum of user experiences pre-ship and post-ship, historical and real-time.
• Manage a team that conducts efficient user research tests, administers a participant database, and operates our lab facility.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent experience in behavioral game analysis and methodology.
• Expertise and experience in User Research methodologies, techniques, and analysis.
• Mastery of data visualization. (Please provide examples of previous work.)
• Passion to inform game design in pursuit of creating engaging social gaming experiences.
• Effective communication skills.
• Highly self motivated.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Are you a kick-ass writer? Have your stories occupied players' imaginations for days, weeks -- years on end? Can you inspire artists to create whole worlds and races of creatures with a few, quality keystrokes? Do you strive for emotional imperviousness to constructive editorial, and have a burning desire to build a team of writers made of similar stuff? Then read on...

Responsibilities

• Histories and legends, combat dialog, weapon descriptions &c. Your words will help define Bungie's next game universe
• Work for and collaborate with a Design Director responsible for all aspects of storytelling
• Mentor and manage a team of internal and external writers

Requirements

• Exceptional creative writing skills, especially in service of vivid, complex, memorable characters
• Minimum 5 years game industry experience or two, shipped AAA games; branching or non-linear narrative experience a plus
• Solid track record of team leadership
• Excellent design and artistic sensibilities; straight-up mission or character design experience a plus
• High level of comfort in a collaborative writing process; solitary scribes need not apply
• Zero desire to parlay your game writing experience into a film, TV show, novel &c.

Still interested? Then we're interested in you. Please email us your resume along with a writing sample totaling no more than 1,500 words. Writing samples should show the breadth of your ability, and, as such, can be comprised of as many different kinds of writing as you like e.g., cinematic scenes, dialog spreadsheets, two line item descriptions &c.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you run through the seven stages of interaction every time you start your car? When you buy a new gadget, do you think aloud as you use it for the first time? Do you have nightmares about the peanut butter theory of user interface design? Do you have the guts to argue that the user interface is the most important feature of a game? Do you love Clippy jokes? If so, you just might be the ideal candidate to become Bungie's next User Interface Design Lead.

As Bungie's User Interface Design Lead, your goal will be to design a consistent, rich, and logical architecture for our UI across all platforms and portals, and then realize that goal as you drive it through production. You will communicate your designs through documentation, flow designs, and functional prototypes. You will collaborate with our graphic artists to design and deliver a rich and interesting experience, and with our designers to ensure intuitive integration with the in-game experience. You will work closely with all departments as you drive your design through all phases of production. You will collaborate with User Research to test that our UI is ultimately accessible and user friendly. You will work with the Test and Localization teams so that our UI designs are localization friendly and platform compliant. Thus, taking us all one step further toward world domination, and a useful paperclip.

Responsibilities

• Lead our UI team of designers and artists.
• Establish a consistent visual and logical UI across all platforms and portals.
• Create user flow diagrams, example screens, rough animatics and other simple prototypes.
• Design a functional and attractive in-game interface (HUD).
• Specify and implement an intuitive and easily navigable game shell UI.
• Create a suite of components for all other game-related UI.

Qualifications

• Prior experience designing user interfaces, preferably for console games.
• Intense curiosity, creativity and the keen ability to stay abreast of positive trends in game design, software and industrial design.
• Fearless and creative approach to solving challenging, complex problems.
• Burning desire to break the mold to take game interfaces to uncharted waters.
• Proven ability to thoroughly document complex and detailed design plans.
• Exceptional team player with strong cross-group communication skills.
• Willingness to take design direction when offered, and the ability to work independently when it isn’t.
• Prior experience working with engineers and artists.
• Submissions without portfolios of previous UI design work will not be considered.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie Studios is looking for an experienced developer of server-side software to create and maintain scalable services to communicate with our games and our internal development tools. The Developer will generally use C# and SQL Server, authoring new tools and services and maintaining and expanding existing ones. Existing databases in this toolset have reached 50 billion rows, and 89,000 transactions/sec, so a firm understanding of performance and scalability is essential.

Essential Functions

• Design scalable, reusable software pipelines for processing and exposing large quantities of data with the flexibility to adapt to changing interfaces as the game code evolves at the same time as the toolset.
• Write clean, well-designed C# code to implement these original designs as well as to fit in to existing tools that need to grow over time.
• Design and implement databases that scale without predetermined limit.
• Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where future projects can benefit from its use.
• Work with the Operations team to ensure stable performance of user-facing server features in the datacenter.

Desired Qualifications

• 3+ years experience with C# and SQL Server.
• Experience with .Net Web Services or WCF.
• Experience writing and shipping production server code preferred.
• Solid understanding of database performance and tuning.
• Strong familiarity with Windows server platforms.
• Ability to do self-directed work as well as work alongside a team of other developers.
• Working knowledge of C++.
• Passion for making great games.
• Bachelors Degree in CS or related field.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Create, champion, and control some of the most load-intensive server-side game features the world has ever witnessed by taking on the role of a Senior Server Programmer at Bungie. Previous experience might include platform-wide Matchmaking services that successfully dispatched hundreds of thousands of concurrent combatants or massive back-ends that cut a brutal swath through a merciless horde of high-load multiplayer features. If you accept our challenge, you WILL be responsible for design and implementation of multiple large, awesomely innovative features. Proven ability to work in code and databases of your own design is essential. Godspeed.

Essential Functions

• Work across disciplines to determine the desired behavior of server-side game features.
• Design highly scalable systems with the flexibility to adapt to evolving game design.
• Write clean C# code to implement these original designs.
• Design and implement databases that scale without predetermined limit.
• Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where our projects can benefit from its use.
• Work with the Operations team to ensure stable performance of your features in the datacenter.

Desired Qualifications

• 6+ years game development experience.
• 4+ years experience with C# and SQL Server.
• Experience with .Net Web Services or WCF.
• Experience writing and shipping production server code for a large-scale online game or platform.
• Solid understanding of database performance and tuning.
• Strong familiarity with Windows server platforms.
• Ability to do self-directed work as well as work alongside a team of other developers.
• Working knowledge of C++.
• Passion for making great games.
• Bachelors Degree in CS or related field.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Plan, deploy, and maintain complex environments as Bungie’s Senior IT Engineer. We’re looking for candidates who can solve bizarre problems and tackle unusual technology related requests by employing the deadly art of Datacenter-fu.

Key Functions

• Support, design and build out technology to support the development and production environments for Bungie’s games.
• Work with team members to troubleshoot complex issues and work with lower tier support on escalations.
• Investigate and keep up with new technology to identify where our projects and environments can benefit from its use.

At least 5 years experience in supporting the following:

• Experience managing mid to large projects over weeks/months including scheduling, budget, and resource coordination.
• Knowledge of datacenter and live production best practices and experience working in live high availability customer facing production environments.
• Experience working multiple vendors to select and test new technology, including sourcing demo and trybuy gear.
• Active Directory in a multi-domain environment. Administrator experience with group policies, replication, group membership, backup and restores, scripting AD objects, building new domains.
• Network maintenance and support. Experienced on Cisco IOS with VLANs, spanning-tree, and dynamic routing protocols. Setting up syslog alerts, SLB, VRRP, ACLs. Able to quickly learn new vendor OS's.
• Firewalls and proxies. Able to configure ISA, Juniper, and Cisco firewalls.
• Backup infrastructure. In-depth experience with backup technologies. Experienced with 3rd party backup vendors such as BackupExec or CommVault.
• Microsoft Windows troubleshooting. Experienced resolving issues related to hardware or application faults. Able to use built-in and 3rd party tools to identify bottlenecks and faults.
• Storage experience, SAN/NAS configuration and implementation.

Essential Qualifications

• SQL
• Exchange
• Active Directory
• Cisco routers and switches
• IIS
• Server monitoring
• VPN and Firewall setup
• Backup and recoveries

Other Required Qualifications

• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Experience in speccing and implementing wan and alternate backhaul technologies (fiber, microwave, satellite).
• Electronic security system deployment and configuration (cardkey, smartcard auth)
• VOIP technology experience, including teleconferencing.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Do you count mouse clicks and key gestures, searching for just the right way to improve productivity by 10%? If you think of user interfaces, game loops, databases, web services, serialization and content pipelines as natural partners just waiting to be chained together, then you belong on our tools team.

Essential Functions

Bungie needs a tools programmer to build software for its artists, designers, testers and engineers to use to make awesome games. You will work with just about everyone in the studio to make their lives better and streamline their workflow. From building level editors to wrangling data formats, this position involves a breadth of technology and feature areas almost unheard of elsewhere in software development.

Essential Qualifications

• Familiar with C#/.NET.
• Experience developing in & maintaining large codebases.
• At least 1 year experience with C++.
• Strong cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration skills.
• Enthusiastic about working with designers and artists.
• Strong personal time-management skills, capable of working in an open environment with regular interruptions for customer service needs.
• Passion for tool development.
• Interest in user interface development.

Other Qualifications

• Development experience with 3DStudio Max and/or Maya.
• Previous game development experience.
• Bachelor's degree or demonstrated equivalent experience.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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It’s launch night. In fifteen minutes, several million frenetic customers are going to race home from their game store’s midnight festivities and log on to your servers all at once. But that’s ok -- you’re prepared. You’re calm. And you have a wall of monitors around you tracking the health of nearly a hundred machines and the better part of a petabyte of storage. You’re about to launch a Bungie game.

Bungie is looking for a generalist engineer to keep our server software purring on our datacenter servers. (We’re a Windows shop.) Responsibilities include:

• Writing management and monitoring dashboard apps for centralized, custom app management (in C#)
• Keeping an eye on our SQL Server databases looking for ways to improve app performance,
• Keeping SQL backups running smoothly for 10+ TB databases.
• Carving up disks into RAID arrays to find the best level of performance and reliability
• Configuring IIS to host our WCF services and web sites
• Designing and testing server setups to accommodate massive crushes of traffic during launch periods
• Understanding our server app data flow to be able to re-route traffic to alternate servers for maintenance windows
• Working with Ops/IT to ensure patching goes smoothly during off hours
• Being the first line of defense when Ops escalates a datacenter problem - fixing it or dispatching it to another dev to fix.

Desired Qualifications

• Prior experience working on user-facing production servers in a high-availability environment
• Solid programming skills in C# and SQL.
• Deep understanding of Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory, Performance counters, etc.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, Windows routing tables, etc.
• Willingness to do occasional late-night software maintenance work
• Passion for delivering a great end-user game experience
• Propensity for rattling off arcane Windows knowledge such as the merits of icacls over cacls, or the finer points of netsh.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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The Content Coordinator is held accountable for the scheduling and workflow of a section of artists, graphic designers, writers and vendors. This position manages and prioritizes the daily activities and workflow for both internal and external projects for marketing, PR, advertising, promotion, franchising, bungie.net and media teams. The Content Coordinator is responsible for assisting the directors and managers with schedules for this team, setting assignments, and supporting communication with the Publisher.

Essential Functions

• Understand and coordinate the processes in project creation and adapt them to meet the myriad of form factors for screen printing, embroidery, book making, stationery, engraving, posters, placard and all related marketing materials.
• Coordinate the packaging /collateral with marketing and design firms.
• Compose and communicate weekly updates to all applicable stakeholders.
• Track invoices and match purchase orders.
• Collect and assess bids for various printed materials and design services.
• Organize and maintain print samples and art discs.
• Provide directors, managers and producers with all necessary input to plan, schedule, assign, and track the detailed tasks related to specific projects.
• Coordinate the internal approval process for art assets created for external marketing and PR.
• Facilitate quality communication/collaboration between the studio and publisher.
• Develop a strong communication with other disciplines and provide updates for external releases.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience coordinating tasks for a medium sized (five or more) group of artists on a shipped game title.
• Exemplary communication skills: Listen to, speak with, and resolve conflicts with members of varied disciplines and external partners in a clear and efficient manner.
• Outstanding analytical skills: Understand, simplify, and solve or seek the solution to any problem in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
• Detail oriented and organized: In meetings, clarify, take thorough notes, and follow up on all action items.
• A comprehensive understanding of the skills, roles and responsibilities for assigning tasks and duties to others.
• Flexible attitude; ability to adjust and adapt to changing needs, priorities, and requests.
• Familiarity with video codecs for broadcast and web applications on both window and mac platforms.
• Thorough knowledge of Photoshop, InDesign, Maya, 3D Studio Max and other software applications.
• Passion, enthusiasm and thorough knowledge of the gaming industry.
• Two or more years relevant working experience.
• Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program that provides an education in the fundamentals of art.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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Bungie seeks software testers for assignment on location in Kirkland, WA. Applicants must be detail oriented, organized, motivated, and capable of working with a team in high pressure situations. Must also be capable of working under development and test managers, able to closely research bugs, able to narrow down reproduction cases, and be ready to adapt to a fast moving, reactive, efficient work environment testing industry leading games and technology.

Essential Functions

• Researching and reporting software defects (bugs).
• Verifying and testing bug fixes.
• Takes direction from and reports to Test Managers.
• Must learn to operate and leverage test tools: Bug Database and other Bungie developed tools.
• Execution of written test cases.
• May be asked to assist leads with administrative duties.
• May be assigned as a mentor / area owner depending on experience.

Desired Qualifications

• Flexible with work hours: Must be able to commit to 40+ hour weeks. Overtime availability and late shift availability are strongly desired.
• Punctual in attendance and completing assigned tasks.
• Strong comprehension of computers and videogame software/hardware.
• Vast exposure to professional, high tech environment.
• Leadership experience in test or similar technical field is a plus but not required.
• Analytical thinker. Strong independent problem solving skills.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Associates or Bachelors degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent work experience or training is preferred.

Please email resumes (along with demo reels, portfolios, sample code, and anything else that demonstrates your skills) to jobs@bungie.com.

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