The Collective hiring level designer, level artist.

The Collective, a newport beach developer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Indiana Jones® and

The Emperor's Tomb™ are looking for a level designer, and an environment artist. Neither positions list previous experience in the industry as a pre-requisite, so this seems like a good shot for many talented amatures.

they list csg level design as a plus as well as experience in max/maya

level design is still level design, regardless of what program you do it in.

Quote from Holeman

do you think they'd care that im still 17?

probably, yes.