Reel FX is a film studio that used to have their primary studio in Dallas. They moved most of that studio to Montreal, but still have a small studio in Dallas. They also have a game studio still in Dallas, Flight School. ReelFX as a whole and Flight School in particular have a few openings. https://jobs.reelfx.com/
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Dallas:
Groove VR: Has several positions including a technical artist and a Houdini artist https://www.groovejones.com/workwithus/
SurviVR: currently has a contract position for a 3D Animator https://survivr.com/careers/
Austin:
Twisted Pixel Games (primarily VR games). Several positions, including Level Designer, Character Modeler and Gameplay Programmer. https://twistedpixelgames.com/careers/
HookBang: Looking for programmers and an environment artist. https://hookbang.com/careers/
Austin Visuals: Animation jobs- 3D Animation Producer, 3D Character Rigger, and 2D Animator. https://austinvisuals.com/animation-and-marketing-jobs-in-austin/
Praxent: Software Engineer positions and a UI/UX Designer https://praxent.com/careers
ZeniMax Studios is a large publishing conglomerate that includes Bethesda Games, ID Software, and Arkane Studios, among others. Their studios are in various locations across the US and Canada. They currently have dozens of job openings across all these studios and locations in every area of development.
While the Midwest does not have as many companies concentrated in one area, there are still quite a few companies scattered throughout the Midwest. Look at GameDevMap.com for a more full list of what is available in various cities. Here are just a few jobs I have seen available in the region.
Kansas City:
Bad Rhino Studios has openings for an animator and a UI artist https://www.badrhinogames.com/careers/
Iowa:
Scientific Games (casino games) has studios in several cities. One of their studios is in Cedar Falls, Iowa. They have a couple art and programming positions open in Cedar Falls, but also in Austin. They also have a QA internship position open in Cedar Falls. https://www.scientificgames.com/careers/all-jobs
Madison, Wisconsin:
Filament Games (educational games): 3D generalist, UI designer, a couple game programmers (one remote). https://www.filamentgames.com/careers/
Lost Boys Interactive: 3D artist, Technical artist, Programmers. http://www.lostboysinteractive.com/careers.html
PerBlue: Animator, Production Assistant, Designer, QA https://www.perblue.com/Careers.aspx
Raven Software (Call of Duty): Quite a few positions including a junior environment artist, jr VFX artist, junior lighting artist, gameplay engineer, UI engineer, jr designer, and QA testers. https://careers.ravensoftware.com/
St. Louis:
Graphite Lab: Gameplay programmer https://graphitelab.com/jobs/
Chicago:
High Voltage Software has studios in New Orleans and Chicago. They have positions open in both locations https://www.high-voltage.com/careers/
Raw Thrills software: programmer and 2D artist https://rawthrills.com/careers/
Wargaming.net has studios around the world, including one in Chicago. The Chicago studio has a tools engineer and a UI artist (multiple positions around the world in their other studios). https://wargaming.com/en/careers/
North Carolina has long been one of the medium sized game dev hubs. This is the home of Epic, Insomniac, Red Storm, and Funcom as well as several smaller studios.
Epic has listed internships for Fall for early career, students and recent grads. Their internships are paid remote internships requiring 40 hours a week remote work.
Art internship information: https://epicgames.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Epic_Games/job/Cary-NC/Art-Internship_R1810-2
Engineering internship information: https://epicgames.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Epic_Games/job/Cary-NC/Epic-Games-Programming-Internships—Fall-2020_R2527
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Insomniac also has one of their two main studios in the Raleigh area. They currently have a few art and design positions open, including environment art, technical art, animation and character art. There is an associate designer position as well. https://insomniac.games/careers/
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Red Storm has a few openings: http://www.redstorm.com/careers
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Grover Gaming https://grovergaming.com/careers/ has jobs currently. a couple 3D generalist positions and a couple programmer positions as well as other types of jobs. This is not a video game company, but rather an electronic games company, primarily slot machines.
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Applied Research Associates is a larger company that has a studio called Virtual Heroes in North Carolina. Here is a link to job openings they have across several of their studios. https://recruiting.ultipro.com/APP1010ARAI/JobBoard/07442cec-d18e-4589-ab15-8342edc29af7/?q=virtual+heroes&o=relevance&w=&wc=&we=&wpst=
Daybreak studios has 28 open positions, most in their Austin, TX studio. These include positions in technical art, character art, audio designer, tools programmer, gameplay programmer, content designer, associate producer and producer.
Daybreak Game Company makes massively multiplayer online games , best known for EverQuest, EverQuest II, PlanetSide 2, & DC Universe Online
https://www.daybreakgames.com/careers
Rebellion is an entertainment company (games, film and television) with 4 studios in England. They have over 47 positions they are hiring for across all 4 studios. These positions range from art, animation, programming, QA, UI, UX in both games and film/tv. https://careers.rebellion.com/#/
ReelFX is a large animation studio with offices in Montreal, Hollywood and Dallas. The Dallas office also has a game studio: Flight School Studios. There are several openings around the world for ReelFX, including a few in Dallas. Particularly there is a software engineer, Designer and Interactive Developer positions at Flight School. https://jobs.reelfx.com/
ForwardXP has a few openings:
https://www.forwardxp.com/careers
Green Grass Studios (Architectural visualization) is looking for visualization artists. http://greengrassstudios.com/apply-here/
Groove Jones: https://www.groovejones.com/workwithus/ -technical artist, unreal developer,
A bunch of job openings at Blizzard right now. Many are in Irvine, but some are in Austin and a few in other studios. https://careers.blizzard.com/en-us/openings