Senior Expert AI Programmer

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Your Mission:

Our team is seeking a Senior Expert AI Programmer who will work closely with other engineers and content teams to expand our AI systems to create new and exciting experiences for our players.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Work with AI engineering teams to expand our AI technology in order to push the limits of what our AI can currently do

• Work alongside our design and content teams to develop new AI characters and behaviors
• Implement, debug and optimize major systems in C/C++ and other languages in the context of a large cross platform codebase
• Design and implement optimized AI systems
• Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers

Player Profile:

• Excellent C++ programing skills, with knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Fluency in 3D math and algebra, related to game programming
• Strong design sensibilities and outstanding communication skills.
• A passion for making video games
• Validated debugging skills
• Experience extending an established code base
• 5+ years of experience in games or real-time AI
• 1+ shipped games
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Math related field

Bonus Points:

• Expertise in one or more of the following areas:
  • AI systems in a networked environment
  • Animation – blend trees, IK, motion matching
  • AI navigation mesh generation and pathfinding
  • AI controlled vehicles
  • Optimization
• Experience with scripting languages
• Console development experience