Senior Game Engineer, Gen AI - Games

Overview

Senior Game Engineer focused on Gen AI for games, building AI-augmented gameplay and player-facing GenAI features alongside game designers.

What you'll do

• Work elbow-to-elbow with Game Designers to prototype and ship AI-augmented gameplay.
• Implement GenAI features that directly enhance the player experience, ensuring AI-generated content feels intentional, high-quality and fun.
• Architect how GenAI hooks into core game systems (AI behavior trees, narrative engines, and world-building tools) to ensure seamless, low-latency performance.
• Develop the logic layer between raw AI outputs and the player, ensuring content remains on-theme, safe and balanced within the game's mechanics.
• Use GenAI to accelerate the find-the-fun phase of development, building internal tools for faster level blocking, asset variation and playtesting loops.
• Debug complex interactions where AI systems meet deterministic game logic, maintaining stability of the live game environment.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of professional experience in game development.
• Deep understanding of game architecture, player controllers and real-time systems.
• Proven experience using LLMs or Diffusion models to solve specific product problems.
• Ability to prompt, fine-tune and chain models to get predictable results in an unpredictable game world.
• Understanding of how a change in an AI's personality or generation parameters affects game balance and the overall player journey.
• Expert-level C++ or C# (Unity/Unreal).
• A grasp of Python for tooling and data pipelines.
• Excitement about impossible design challenges and belief that GenAI can unlock new genres of play.

Details

• Location: USA, remote.
• Compensation: annual salary only, no bonuses; range $315,000.00 - $535,000.00 and varies by location.
• Benefits include health plans, mental health support, 401(k) with employer match, stock option program, disability programs, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family-forming benefits, life and serious injury benefits, and paid leave of absence programs.