Competitive Systems Tester (Card Balance & AI Validation)

Crafting the future of competitive games from the edge of tomorrow.

Learn more about us at https://tworobots.com

Two Robots Studios is building Two Robots: Unleashed, a competitive sci-fi card battler designed as a long-term competitive ecosystem, not a disposable content game.

We’re looking for a Competitive Systems Tester to live inside the game, break it intelligently, and help us answer the hardest question early studios avoid:

Is this actually good?

This role sits at the intersection of high-level playtesting, balance analysis, and QA, working directly with our AI balance outputs, designers, and engineers.

If you love card games, understand edge cases, and enjoy proving systems wrong until they hold up, this is for you.

What You’ll Do

Play the game aggressively and intelligently, including:

Testing against AI opponents across difficulty tiers

Attempting to consistently beat the AI using multiple factions and builds

Stress-test card interactions and edge cases, including overlapping states like:

Cleave, Hacked, Stealth, Rusted, Stunned, Shields, buffs/debuffs, etc.

Timing conflicts, priority resolution, and unexpected interactions

Identify balance issues across:

Card Ops costs

Power and Ultimate cooldowns

Mechommander Powers that feel dominant, useless, or degenerate

Review and interpret AI balance system outputs:

Win rates

Card efficiency

Matchup skew

Meta concentration

Make concrete recommendations:

Cards to tweak, remove, or rework

Ops cost adjustments

Ability constraints or rule clarifications

Explore and break non-combat systems, including:

NPC dialogue and interactions

Card trading with NPCs (as features come online)

On-ship meta experience and progression systems

Future card shop flows and economy hooks

Log issues clearly with repro steps, expected behavior, and competitive impact

Who You Are

Deep familiarity with competitive card games (digital or tabletop)

Examples: Hearthstone, MTG, Legends of Runeterra, Slay the Spire, etc.

Comfortable reasoning about systems, probabilities, and incentives

Able to explain why something feels broken, not just that it is

Persistent and curious enough to hunt edge cases instead of playing “normally”

Clear communicator who can translate gameplay findings into actionable feedback

Bonus Points If You

Have worked as a high-level playtester, QA analyst, or balance tester

Enjoy reading balance dashboards or game telemetry

Can consistently outplay AI systems rather than just survive them

Have opinions about what makes a competitive game fair, watchable, and replayable

Like arguing (politely) about game design when the data backs it up

Why This Role Matters

This is not checkbox QA.

You will directly influence:

Whether metas stabilize or collapse

Whether new players churn or stick

Whether tournaments feel fair

Whether our AI balancer is actually telling the truth

Your feedback will shape which cards exist, which die, and which define the game.

Why Join Two Robots Studios?

Work on a live, evolving competitive game with real players

Small, senior team where feedback immediately changes the product

Fully remote and globally distributed

Your impact is visible in patches, balance updates, and tournament outcomes

We value people who make systems stronger, not quieter

Ready to Apply?

To be considered, you must complete our candidate survey. We use it to filter applicants who pay attention to detail and genuinely care about the role — applications without it will not be reviewed.

👉 Application Form: https://airtable.com/appdgbcpjKsZq2xTi/pagGGFDsTTPO2y3lR/form

🌐 Learn more about us: https://tworobots.com