Every open Santa Monica game industry role in the games industry, pulled straight from studios' own career pages and refreshed every hour. Salary shown when the studio publishes it, ghost-job listings flagged, and you apply on the studio's own site. No ads, no recruiters in the middle.
Santa Monica has 42 open game industry roles right now across 6 studios, led by Design, Engineering, Animation, Production. Studios hiring in Santa Monica: Activision, Naughty Dog, Absurd Ventures, Blizzard Entertainment, Sony Interactive and more. Every listing is pulled straight from the studio's own careers page and refreshed hourly — you apply on their site, not ours.
Right now, hiring skews Mid (40% of open Santa Monica game industry roles), Naughty Dog has the most live openings (16), 60% publish a salary range, 5% were posted in the last week.
Computed from the 42 live roles on this page, refreshed hourly.
25 of these roles publish a range (60%). Median advertised band: $124K–$184K.
2 posted in the last 7 days; the median role here has been live 53 days.
0% of the roles that state a work model are fully remote — this is a mostly on-site corner of the industry.
Game-dev hiring is full of stale and "ghost" postings. DevQuest shows how long each role has been live and flags listings that keep getting re-posted, so you don't waste an afternoon applying into the void. We show real salary only when the studio publishes it, never an invented "competitive" range, and we link you straight to the studio's own application page. No recruiters, no ads, and we never sell your data.
2 new Santa Monica game industry roles landed in the last seven days, most recently across studios like Naughty Dog, Activision (HQ), Absurd Ventures. Filter the full board by seniority, region, studio, and tech stack (search a skill like C++ or Unreal), or set a free weekly email alert and let the new ones come to you.
Yes — DevQuest is completely free, with no ads and no recruiters. You apply directly on each studio's own careers page.
Every hour. We pull Santa Monica game industry openings straight from studios' own career pages, so this list reflects what's live right now — currently 42 roles across 7 studios.
When the studio publishes it, yes — we show the real figure and never invent a "competitive" range. Roles without published pay are shown without a salary tag.
We show how long each role has been live, flag listings that keep getting re-posted, and drop links that go dead — so you don't waste time applying into the void.
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