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NantGames began in 2018 as a small business venture to explore the idea of creating games and interactive media within the larger NantWorks organization. Since then, we’ve blossomed into a full-fledged game studio, currently working towards producing our first internally developed mobile title with award winning IP.

Based out of San Diego, California, our team has previously created and worked on some of the most recognized and loved properties across nearly every platform and device. While we love playing games, we love making them even more. NantGames has great opportunities across multiple disciplines and levels of experience. Check out our available positions below and come help us change the world!

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NEWS

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NantGames Has Launched its New Website!

Aug 12, 2021

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NantWorks Makes Strategic Investment in Daybreak Game Company and Establishes Video Game Publishing Joint Venture, NantG Mobile

Sep 5, 2018

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NantWorks forms game publishing venture with stake in Daybreak

Sep 5, 2018

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Soon-Shiong’s NantWorks Invests in Daybreak Games

Sep 4, 2018

TEAM

Our development team is comprised of game industry veterans with decades of combined experience across engineering, art and design.
Click on the pictures below to learn more about each person!

TEAM

Our development team is comprised of game industry veterans with decades of combined experience across engineering, art and design. Click on the pictures below to learn more about each person!

CAREERS

Success is built upon the talent, time and effort of our people. In order to attract and satisfy the best in the world, NantGames offers competitive and comprehensive benefits packages to all full-time staff. Our goal is to empower our people to become the world-class game developers they were meant to be.

Studio Benefits Include

CAREERS

Studio Benefits Include

Competitive Salary

Salaries that compete with leading companies and performance bonus opportunities.

Medical and Dental

Lower Cost / Lower Deductible, Health, Dental / Vision, including HMO and PPO options.

Unlimited-Style PTO

Paid time off or personal time off. Flexible or “unlimited” vacation policy including 11 paid holidays.

401K

We offer a 401(k) savings plan with company match so you can plan for the time ahead.

Disability options

Short term and long term disability insurance coverage.

Life Insurance

Company-paid life insurance can be an important part of protecting your family.

FSA

Flexible Spending Account for certain out-of-pocket health care costs.

Employee Discounts

Discount benefits for mobile phones, gym memberships and other entertainment.

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Please check back at a later date for available positions, as the site is updated frequently

CONTACT

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General Information

info@nantg.com

Press Inquiries

press@nantg.com

Tech Support

support@nantg.com

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Keith Muelas

Community Manager

Since childhood, Keith has wanted to work in game development. After risking it all, moving from South Florida to Seattle, Washington, he found himself making his way through the industry working on Community Development at Xbox, tinyBuild, and more. Now, Keith is excited to be building up NantGames’ community & social from the ground up!

In a previous life, Keith designed armor and weapons for the United States Special Operations Command and was a top 10 streamer. Today in his spare time, he enjoys gaming, woodturning, and cooking.

Keith Muelas

Community Manager

In a previous life, Keith designed armor and weapons for the United States Special Operations Command and was a top 10 streamer. Today in his spare time, he enjoys gaming, woodturning, and cooking.

Steve Merghart

Art Director

Steve is a hack cartoonist that has been masquerading as a game developer since the early days of the PlayStation 1. It is only a matter of time before someone exposes him for the escaped cartoon gorilla that he is, but until then he is going to be jumping on the furniture and making art for NantGames.

Steve Merghart

Art Director

Matt Geer

Lead Gameplay Designer

Matt was that kid growing up that would always make his own board games and force his family to play them. Board games evolved into modding video games, which evolved into a career making them. Matt started his career building small games for huge brands like Doctor Who and Top Gear. From there he transitioned into AAA games. In the last 10 years, he’s been a level designer and scripter on both the Halo and Call of Duty franchises.

When he's not making games Matt enjoys spending time with his young family, retro game hunting, and cooking.

Matt Geer

Lead Gameplay Designer

When he's not making games Matt enjoys spending time with his young family, retro game hunting, and cooking.

Brian Erice

Sr. Technical VFX Artist

Brian has over 17 years of experience as a 3D Artist, Animator and Technical Artist in the games industry. His work includes projects like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Tron Evolution, Jaws Ultimate Predator 3DS and VFX work for films like Michael Mann's "Blackhat".

Brian is a lifelong gamer who was inspired by his father, also a gamer, and his father's father (a guy he never knew) who he assumes was also a gamer.

Brian Erice

Sr. Technical VFX Artist

Brian is a lifelong gamer who was inspired by his father, also a gamer, and his father's father (a guy he never knew) who he assumes was also a gamer.

Anthony Tso

Animator

Anthony has been gaming for as long as he can remember. He was captivated ever since he saw how a few DOS commands could make a computer burst with lights and sound. Since then, Anthony has worked as an animator in the film, games, and theme park entertainment industry at companies like Telltale Games, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Naughty Dog. You can find his work in The Walking Dead Season 2, The Wolf Among Us, Knack, and Uncharted 4.

Nowadays he spends his day lurking Twitch chat, planning the next great road trip, playing games like Project Zomboid, Factorio, and Crusader Kings, and wondering where time went.

Anthony Tso

Animator

Nowadays he spends his day lurking Twitch chat, planning the next great road trip, playing games like Project Zomboid, Factorio, and Crusader Kings, and wondering where time went.

Evan Donohue

Live Producer

Since beating the legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on his Super Nintendo, Evan wanted to work in games to help create interactive moments that would last a life time. He has spent the last decade working with startups, Disney Interactive, The NFL, and now NantGames to create mobile and console games.

Today in his spare time Evan loves to hike, cook, play lots of games, and continue to search for the best taco spot in Southern California.

Evan Donohue

Live Producer

Today in his spare time Evan loves to hike, cook, play lots of games, and continue to search for the best taco spot in Southern California.

Jesse Snyder

Creative Director

Jesse Snyder is an AAA FPS game design veteran who has worked on the Call of Duty and Halo franchises for 15 years as a lead and as a director. Jesse is most known for creating the ever-popular zombie mode in Call of Duty in 2008.

Jesse Snyder

Creative Director

Brent Ripka

Frontend Developer

Brent has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. His love for programming goes back to middle school where he first started writing programs on a TI-85 graphing calculator because he wanted a quick way to verify his math homework. He seeks out work on cool projects with cool people and has found an abundance of both at NantGames.

Because staring at screens 24/7 wasn’t recommended by a doctor he likes to unwind by practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and riding his motorcycle.

Brent Ripka

Frontend Developer

Because staring at screens 24/7 wasn’t recommended by a doctor he likes to unwind by practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and riding his motorcycle.

Lydia Clare

Marketing Specialist

With a love of video games since she could smash a button, Lydia has worked in the mobile games space for over a decade across a variety of roles. At the end of the day, however, she has found that connecting great games to players who will love them is her calling.

Outside the virtual world in Los Angeles, Lydia works for a bulldog rescue network, raises her beardie, Pepper, and is a licensed cosmetologist who donates time for skincare for the elderly or those in recovery.

Lydia Clare

Marketing Specialist

William Burgstaler

Associate Game Designer

Billy loves creating virtual places that feel like being transported to a different sense of reality, and are enjoyable to explore and play in. He also enjoys experimenting with game development systems until he inevitably breaks them and writes a detailed bug report about it. He loves exploring the vast possibilities of interactive entertainment from strange niche games to big budget blockbusters and of course beloved and forgotten classics. He loves witnessing how game worlds and systems enrich our lives and working on interesting ways to implement those experiences.

William Burgstaler

Associate Game Designer

Elijah Fernandez

Monetization Designer

From an early age Elijah started playing games and was never satisfied with just experiencing them. He made small paper puzzles and fell deep into collectible card games, exploring combinations and strategies that pushed the limits of the rules. Starting his career as early as possible Elijah spent time contracting between large teams like Zenimax Online Studios and a local startup until he found a home working on mobile games. Elijah brings to NantGames his experience and understanding of the mobile games space, specialization in F2P game economies, and passion for making the best possible player experience from top to bottom.

Elijah Fernandez

Monetization Designer

Matt Case

Sr. Character Artist

Matt grew up in the 80’s playing videogames, collecting transformers, and never growing up. Now he’s been making videogames as a character artist since 1998, and still hasn’t grown up or stopped collecting transformers.

Matt Case

Sr. Character Artist

Jeff Winternheimer

Associate Producer

Jeff’s hunger for video games started at an early age. His first console, the Super Nintendo, kicked off his wildest imagination of what video games could be. As Jeff got older, technology became a passion, collecting consoles and pushing them to their limits, Jeff created his first game during his high school years. Jeff started his professional gaming career by working on high profile franchises like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, eventually transitioning to well-known shooters such as Call of Duty and Destiny. Jeff brings experience and wisdom from creating game engines to advancing MMOs like EverQuest to NantGames.

Jeff Winternheimer

Associate Producer

Spencer Ozaki

UI Programmer

Spencer is a wizard, be it with a soccer ball or his code. Primarily spending a career focused on delivering extensive and user friendly UI/UX to game titles such as H1Z1, Call of Duty franchise and Disney Infinity. When not creating at his desk you can find him on the field, hiking the hills or playing some of his favorite games in that rare downtime.

Spencer Ozaki

UI Programmer

Jason Thomas

Sr. Engineer

Worked on the Cars and MX vs ATV collection of products as a physics programmer early in his career. More recently shipped Defiance and H1Z1, and now works on NantGames’ upcoming first title. Jason was once voted least likely to complete a coherent…

Jason Thomas

Sr. Engineer

Mike Madden

Executive Producer

Mike is a child of 70’s, 80’s, 90’s…you get the idea. With a child’s imagination and having a passion for creating worlds and adventures have led Mike to a 30-year career in video games. Mike has been in leadership roles in both Design and Production across a wide variety of genres and platforms; He now continues his adventure with NantGames.

Mike Madden

Executive Producer

Dave Oelkers

Lead Animator

Dave has been learning and loving animation since 1992 when he was studying to become a 2d feature animation artist. However in the fall of 2000 he got his big break to become a 3d animator on the critically acclaimed Play Station 2 game, The Mark of Kri. Dave stuck with video games and has worked on a variety of title ranging from Rise of the Kasai to Xiaolin Showdown to Defiance and beyond. He came to NantGames for an opportunity to push the game’s animation style and create memorable characters for our players to love and enjoy.

In Dave’s “spare time” he loves to surf his local break, mountain bike down the hills around his house or just build things (out of wood) in his garage.

Dave Oelkers

Lead Animator

In Dave’s “spare time” he loves to surf his local break, mountain bike down the hills around his house or just build things (out of wood) in his garage.

Brian Connelly

3D Artist

Through video games, Brian has fused his career with a lifelong hobby. After several years of working at Gamestop, Brian decided to pursue an education in game art at LCAD. As a professional 3D game artist, Brian has helped in creating the worlds of games like Borderlands, Mortal Kombat, and Sonic. His favorite part about stylized 3D environment art is bringing a unique world to life and setting the stage for its characters.

When he’s not playing (or working on) games, Brian enjoys drawing and painting, surfing, building models, and spending time with his fiancée.

Artstation:

Brian Connelly

3D Artist

When he’s not playing (or working on) games, Brian enjoys drawing and painting, surfing, building models, and spending time with his fiancée.

Artstation:

Bryant Clark

Business Intelligence Engineer

Bryant has been in the games industry for about 15 years, the first half as an IT admin and the second in BI/Analytics. He took a 2 year break from the industry and realized quickly that he wanted back in. Although he doesn't play a ton of games, he loves PC 1st person shooters and tower defense (no judgements please).

When Bryant isn't working he is spending time with his family. He and his wife find their kids increasingly cool to hang out with so they're always looking for fun things to do and delicious treats to eat (read: things with sugar).

Bryant Clark

Business Intelligence Engineer

Shahin Ghahremani

Animator

Shahin is a character animator at NantGames. He holds a bachelor of Creative Multimedia in Visual Effects and Animation from Multimedia University, Malaysia. At work, Shahin creates gameplay animations for the creatures and humanoid characters, as well as helps with the development of the industry standard rigs and skin deformations for NantGames’ fantastic game projects.

Shahin's interests during his free times are traveling, meditating and yoga, mingling with friends, coffee shop hopping and sketching, watching movies, reading books or articles about science and spirituality, playing strategic or puzzle games, exploring vegan foods and desserts, walking and hiking, and working out at the gym. He believes in establishing a healthy lifestyle for himself and helping everybody else around him to live happier and healthier!

Shahin Ghahremani

Animator

Graeme Davis

Senior Narrative Designer – Writer

Graeme Davis has been in the games industry since dice were made of flint. He started at Games Workshop in 1986, taking the Warhammer fantasy IP through its initial development and organization. In 2019-22, he developed the Solasta setting for the award-winning, 5e-based fantasy computer RPG Crown of the Magister. Along the way he has created or developed over 40 electronic games and more than 150 tabletop game products, including major franchises like Middle-earth, Vampire: the Masquerade, and the Total War strategy game series.

In spare time, he likes reading history, myth, and folklore, curating anthologies of early genre fiction, and developing cool stuff through his indie tabletop games studio, Rookery Publications.

Graeme Davis

Senior Narrative Designer – Writer

In spare time, he likes reading history, myth, and folklore, curating anthologies of early genre fiction, and developing cool stuff through his indie tabletop games studio, Rookery Publications.

Jake Fyfe

Studio Director

Gaming has been at the center of Jake’s life since he started forming memories. He has had his hands across different areas of the gaming spectrum. He started with the livestreaming ecosystem, managed professional gaming teams, and grew into VP of Operations at Echo Fox. Echo Fox competed at the League of Legends World Championship Series and earned multiple fighting game championships across the globe under his leadership. Jake is now channeling his unique experience to create innovative IP under NantGames that connects these different sectors in gaming.

Jake Fyfe

Studio Director

Steve Bond

Business Intelligence Analyst

Steve has always been fascinated investigating/researching player behavior through data. He's spent around 3.5 years as a BI analyst with multiple responsibilities for Amazon Games New World MMO. This was a great experience working on multiple aspects of progression, combat, retention and of course, exploitation/hacking. Previously he was the BI Analyst for Winview Games, a sports prediction/proposition mobile game publisher.

Typically playing shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield, he will also definitely be playing Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, and Lost Ark. He and his wife like to bike and have been in the bikeathon to fight kids cancer every September for the last 2 years. Prior to Covid, Steve traveled around the world to MANY different countries. "Dubai is an incredible city to visit if you ever get a chance!"

Steve Bond

Business Intelligence Analyst

Andrea Dailey

Concept Artist

Armed with a passion for storytelling and incredible artistic ability, Andrea has slayed monster projects in the game industry for more than a decade. She cuts right to the heart of players with her concept art and charming style. She has donned more than one helmet during the creative process, both as an individual contributor and as a lead in the game industry.

Andrea is thrilled to be part of the adventure here at NantGames as a Concept Artist.

Andrea Dailey

Concept Artist

Andrea is thrilled to be part of the adventure here at NantGames as a Concept Artist.

Jake Kovacs

Front End Developer

Jake is a Software Engineer who is passionate about both playing and making games. While studying Mechanical Engineering in college, Jake realized his true passion was software engineering. Since graduating he has been working in the gaming industry working on mobile games.

When not copy pasting code from Stack Overflow, Jake enjoys video games, golfing, playing hockey, woodworking, and spending time with his wife and dogs. Born and raised in Minnesota, he makes up for his "Oh You Betchya" accent with his "Oh You Betchya" attitude.

Jake Kovacs

Front End Developer

She’Bria Heidelberg

QA Analyst

She'Bria started in the gaming industry when working on the Xbox One X release under Microsoft and since then, she's realized how much she enjoys not only playing video games, but also being involved in the process of making games. After working with tinyBuild as a Cert QA Analyst, She'Bria realized how enjoyable it can be to grow with a company, and is ecstatic to grow and build with NantGames. She'Bria enjoys not only being involved in the process, but the wonderful and interesting people she meets along the way.

In her free time, She'Bria believes herself to be a Karaoke Queen and continues to be a Pokemon Master until further notice.

She’Bria Heidelberg

QA Analyst

In her free time, She'Bria believes herself to be a Karaoke Queen and continues to be a Pokemon Master until further notice.

Moises J Zet

QA Test Lead

Moises is a QA professional of 15 years. Along his journey that started with testing mobile games prior to iOS and Android which led to AAA titles and studios. Moises has had a career that spans from God of War (mobile [2007]) to Call of Duty (Modern Warfare [2007], World at War [2008], Black Ops 1 [2010]) to a more recent contract as a Senior QA analyst on League of Legends: Wild Rift.

In his "Free" time depending on season, Moises is a family man. Supporting his High School Junior son is a family passion. Golf season, Band Season, Parade Season. Busy son, busy family. But in his spare time traditional sports, eSports, food, Dance Dance Revolution, Moises is a man of many interest and the rabbit hole traveled is dependent on mood.

Moises J Zet

QA Test Lead

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