Senior Gameplay Engineer

📋 Description

• Develop combat behavior: target prioritization, weapon/ability use, movement, disengagement
• Develop humanization: tunable aim, reaction time, and error models across difficulty levels
• Develop macro behavior: team cohesion, traversal, pacing, events, looting, and progression
• Extend our utility AI framework: new behaviors, scoring, 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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
• Unreal Engine 5, StateTree, and the Gameplay Ability System
• Control systems (e.g., PID controllers) and input simulation

🎁 Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 14 paid holidays and 15-25 days of vacation
• Up to 10 paid sick days and parental/compassionate leave
• Mental health and wellbeing programs
• Family planning support through Maven
• Commuter benefits and fitness reimbursements