Mathematician jobs in Minnesota

King Show Games, Inc., a video game development company, is currently interviewing qualified applicants interested in pursuing a career in video game development. We are looking for people who are innovative, talented, creative, and passionate about the gaming industry. If you’re a self-motivated team player who is able to multi-task and can handle the following responsibilities, we look forward to hearing from you!

Job Summary
Our Mathematicians are responsible for designing and proofing math models for gaming products and working closely with the game development artists, engineers, and sound designers. The Mathematician should be a dynamic contributor to ensuring a fun, consistent, and competitive product that enhances player enjoyment.

Responsibilities

• Working with the game designer to develop feasible math models with the players’ needs in mind.
• Providing formal analysis and proofs of gaming math models.
• Creating and maintaining/enforcing a clear, clean directory structure for all math assets as well as maintaining all documents relating to the math.
• Managing the ongoing development of the math documentation to ensure that it remains accurate and up-to-date.
• Ensuring a fun, consistent, and competitive product within the scope of the project.
• Maximizing the use of existing technology.
• Is an active participant/contributor in the game design and invention process.
• Working closely with the Game Development team of artists, sound designers and game designers to design, develop, modify, review, test and document software in a real-time environment.
• Working with the game programmer to ensure proper implementation of the math model.
• Playing the game frequently to review the math implementation and providing team with constructive feedback as necessary.
• Contributing to daily game design, implementation, and tuning efforts.
• Delivering quality work as scheduled in accordance with the game design and product requirements.
• Conforming to the math standards.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in mathematics, statistics or related.
• Keen knowledge of applied mathematics, probability and statistics.
• Ability to create spreadsheets and software simulations to verify math models.
• Ability to interface and communicate with other members of the game development staff.
• Ability to bring projects to completion with minimal supervision.
• Good written and verbal communication skills and a high level of interpersonal skills.
• Must be a self-motivated team player with the ability to work in a customer-oriented, very fast-paced, demanding and deadline-oriented environment.
• Must be able to meet or exceed set project milestones and deadlines (self-motivated), which will entail extra work time as needed (work hours beyond a normal work week).
• Skills and ability to identify problems, analyze the situation and make appropriate recommendations and decisions to achieve team goals.
• Strong Excel skills are required.
• Additional Software: Word, Outlook, Visual Studio.net Professional and ability to learn new applications.
• Game development experience a plus.
• Data mining experience a plus.
• Basic familiarity with VBA and/or C a plus.

Please include a cover letter along with your resume when you apply.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The incumbent may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities other than those stated above.

About King Show Games
Founded in 1998, King Show Games is a Minnesota based company providing entertaining video games that are played around the world. Our growing company consists of talented artists, engineers, mathematicians and producers that have created over 200 games. Our Company Belief consists of 4 principals:

THINK BIG – Think outside the box; strive to be successful.
BE FRANK – Be open and sincere in your dealings with others; be forthright.
FIGHT HARD – Believe in your ideas; speak up for your convictions.
After the call, MOVE AS A TEAM!

King Show Games offers competitive salaries and remote work options as well as a full range of comprehensive benefits including a bonus plan, medical, dental, life and long-term disability insurance, as well as a matching 401k.

King Show Games embraces diversity and inclusion as an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on creating an environment that is built on integrity, openness, involvement, fairness, respect and courtesy.

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