Senior Gameplay Engineer

What We Need

• Develop combat behavior: target prioritization, hero-appropriate weapon and ability use, movement, and disengagement
• Develop humanization: tunable aim, reaction time, and error models across difficulty levels
• Extend our utility AI framework: new behaviors, scoring, and tuning
• Keep bot populations performant: throttling, suspension, and LOD
• Extend bots as automated test clients, from feature tests to match-scale load tests
• Build bot evaluation tooling: debug visualization and playtest metrics
• Partner with design to tune behavior through playtests

Who You Are

• 5+ years of gameplay or game AI engineering on shipped action games
• Strong C++ and Unreal Engine fluency, including AI controllers, navigation, and EQS
• Utility AI or comparable decision-making architectures
• AI in networked multiplayer: client/server authority, prediction, dedicated servers
• Humanlike combat AI: aim and error models, reaction time, believable movement
• Optimizing many concurrent agents: LOD and tick throttling
• Nice-to-haves: player bots in a competitive shooter, Unreal Engine 5, StateTree, and the Gameplay Ability System, control systems (e.g., PID controllers) and input simulation, automated test clients and load testing

Pay

The pay range for this position in California at the start of employment is expected to be between $108,900 and $161,160 per year. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage
• 14 paid holidays per calendar year
• Paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days)
• Paid sick days per calendar year (up to 10 days)
• Paid parental and compassionate leave
• Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support
• Family planning support through Maven
• Commuter benefits
• Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses