Senior Game AI Designer | Fully Remote

Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc

5d•Remote

About The Position

Escape Velocity is building a culture of play and seeking an imaginative, skilful, and versatile Senior AI Designer to join their remote team. This role involves creating exciting new enemies for a unique, high-mobility action game, developing design specs and technical documents, and working alongside other designers and engineers on NPC creation, scripting, and behaviour trees. The position also requires collaboration with producers for planning, analysis of user data and feedback to improve AI functionality, and pitching new AI designs to leads and directors.

Requirements

A passion for competitive and/or strategic multiplayer games.
5+ years of professional game design or AI game development experience.
Technical expertise in Unreal and/or equivalent AAA game engines.
Senior-level proficiency in blueprint scripting and AI behaviour trees.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
A professional understanding of competitive multiplayer games and their use of NPCs.
Background or education in game design or programming.

Responsibilities

Create exciting new enemies for a unique, high-mobility action game.
Create design specs and technical documents.
Work alongside other designers and engineers on NPC creation, scripting, and behaviour trees.
Collaborate with producers to plan future work and identify dependencies.
Analyze user data, feedback, and heatmaps to understand how the game’s AI is functioning and what changes need to be made.
Pitch detailed new AI designs to leads and directors.