Senior Game AI Engineer

$101,000 - $186,754/Yr

Infinity Ward - Woodland Hills, CA

Full-time - Senior

Woodland Hills, CA

101-250 employees

About the position

The Senior Game AI Engineer (NPC Behavior) at Infinity Ward is responsible for developing innovative AI technology for the next AAA title in the Call of Duty franchise. This role requires collaboration with various teams to create and enhance AI characters and behaviors, ensuring high visual fidelity and performance optimization. The ideal candidate will bring creativity and pragmatism to the fast-paced game development environment, contributing to the overall success of the project.

Responsibilities

• Work with the AI engineering team to craft best-in-class AI technology for our next AAA title.
• Work closely with the design and content teams to bring new AI characters and behaviors to life.
• Collaborate with the animation team to continue improving the visual fidelity of our AI.
• Contribute ideas for new AI architectures and technologies.
• Design, plan, and implement performant and optimized AI systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in games, military simulation, or real-time AI.
• 1+ shipped titles working as an AI Engineer.
• Experience with animation technology - blend trees, IK, motion matching.
• Strong design sensibilities and outstanding communication skills.
• Excellent debugging and performance analysis skills.
• A love for competitive FPS play.
• Strong 3D math and algebra skills as they relate to game programming.
• Strong knowledge of C++ programming and practices.

Nice-to-haves

• Use of analytics to guide behavior.
• Experience with vehicle AI.
• Experience with unscripted, ambient AI behavior.
• Networking.
• Single-player AI systems.
• Working in and extending an established code base.
• Have architected (or significantly extended) an AI decision framework.
• Experience with C#.
• Previous experience with scripting languages such as Lua, and Python.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
• Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job.