Lead AI Programmer
Montréal, QC, Canada
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People Can Fly
Company Description
People Can Fly is one of the leading independent AAA games development studios with an international team of hundreds of talented individuals working from offices located in Poland, UK, US, and Canada, and from all over the world thanks to our remote work programs.
Founded in 2002, we made our mark on the shooter genre with titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders. We are one of the most experienced Unreal Engine studios in the industry and we are expanding it with in-house solutions called PCF Framework.
Our creative teams are currently working on several exciting titles: Gemini is our new project being developed with Square Enix; Bifrost, Victoria and Dagger are projects we're growing in the self-publishing model. We also have one project in the concept phase – Red; as well as two projects in VR technology – Green Hell VR and Thunder - a new project based on one of the IPs from the Group’s portfolio.
With over 20 years of experience, PCF sets out to explore new horizons. We aim to combine our expertise with creativity of the best and most forward-thinking talents in the industry to work together on the new generation of action games for the global gaming community.
If you decide to accompany us on this journey, you’ll have a chance to perfect your craft and expand your knowledge, working alongside leaders in the industry on bringing a brand-new unique experience to the players worldwide.
Project Bifrost is a yet unannounced AAA action-adventure game developed by our North American team supported by PCF’s European studios.
Job Description
- Provide mentorship, direction and best in class engineering principles to ensure quality results and efficient working practices
- Provide day-to-day feedback and creatively solve problems
- Work with production team to plan development and provide tasks assignment to programmers team schedule
- Mentoring, managing and leading the AI programming department
- Work very closely with the Creative Director and other leads to understand and establish the vision and evangelise this to the AI Programmers team
- Work closely with other departments and give direction and feedback on requirements for the AI features being implemented
- Work across multiple disciplines on the behavior of a large variety of non-player characters, bringing to life memorable enemies of all shapes and sizes
- Maintain and extend the existing AI framework and tools in cooperation with other internal studios or programmers
- Research the latest techniques in game AI to create believable characters and environments
- Test, debug, profile, optimize and document implementations and set a standard for AI team
- Supervision of documentation created by the team members
- Conduct consistent performance reviews of staff members
- Conduct recruitment projects with HR collaboration
- Conduct onboarding to new hires
Qualifications
- Typically 8 years of software engineering experience
- Typically at least 2 shipped AAA projects from start to finish with credits as a programmer
- Typically at least 2 years of experience in leading a team of programmers
- Strong mentoring and leadership skills
- Expert in C/C++ and object-oriented programming with a strong 3D math background
- Excellent understanding of AI architecture and standard technology
- Good understanding of modern AI techniques as used in AAA games
- Experience with multi-threading
- Experience with performance measurement and optimization
- Experience in programming movement, navigation, and decision-making AI
- Unreal Engine 4 excellent knowledge
- Ability to write solid, reliable, efficient code
- Proficiency with Atlassian software (JIRA, Confluence)
- Proficiency with Swarm and Perforce
- Game designer's creativity
- Work effectively under tight deadline
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
- Open-minded team player attitude
- Strong work ethic and self-motivated
- Passionate about playing and making video games
Additional Information
What we offer:
U.S.
- 100% group health insurance benefit premiums paid by PCF (Medical, Dental, Vision, Group Life, and Supplemental Live) and start on day 1 of employment.
- 401K with 100% match, up to 3% of employee salary, and vested immediately.
- Paid week off during Winter Holidays.
- 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days.
- Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents.
- A competitive salary and performance-based annual bonuses.
- Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
- Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.
- Long term disability, short term disability, travel insurance, as well as other benefits provided.
Canada
- Benefit package 100% paid by PCF. Insurance company reimburses 100% of claims (Up to $500 per service a year, as well as individual family coverage).
- Full Dental coverage, including major dental and orthodontics.
- 4% RRSP matching before tax deductions, 100% vested on day 1.
- Paid week off during Winter Holidays.
- 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days.
- Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents.
- A competitive salary and performance-based annual bonuses.
- Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
- Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
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