AI Programmer
Description
Deck Nine Games is looking
to hire a talented Senior AI Programmer to help build out our AI systems for an
unannounced AAA single-player adventure game.
Located near Boulder,
Colorado, Deck Nine Games is a BAFTA and VGA nominated developer of narrative
adventure games. Always innovating, we're growing and are seeking highly
qualified programmers to join our amazing team.
Our programmers are in creative positions that collaborate closely across
disciplines with some of the most passionate developers in the world.
Currently the studio is
remote, waiting until it is safe to return to the office. For this position we
would consider both onsite and fully remote applicants.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the
Design and Art teams to bring a polished experience into our games
- Programming content like NPC
behaviors, believable worlds, player locomotion, and animation systems
- Help design, drive, and
create our core AI systems, while contributing original and creative ideas and
solutions to anything you touch
- Review the work of other
engineers and provide mentorship
- Additional
responsibilities may be assigned as needed
Requirements &
Skills:
- Senior-level experience in
the console/PC industry
- Bachelor’s Degree in
Computer Science, Physics, AI, Math, or equivalent
- Strong math skills with
emphasis on 3D math
- Strong knowledge of C++
programming language
- Strong knowledge of
current game AI techniques and industry standards
- Be a driven, motivated
personality that wants to make great games
Pluses:
- Console programming
experience
- Unreal 4 experience
- Previous AI systems
architected and delivered
- Multiple shipped games
- AAA games experience
Benefits
- Salary Range $70k-$150k depending on experience
- Unlimited Vacation Time and paid Parental
Leave
- Health insurance for you and your family at a
low cost to you
- Dental and Vision insurance for you and
your family at NO cost to you
- Life and Disability benefits at NO cost to you
- Optional Flexible Spending Account (including
Healthcare and Limited Purpose), Dependent Care Account, and Health Savings
Account available
- Optional Supplemental Health and
Life Insurance
- 401(k) Plan with an Employer Match
- Growth opportunities for your career
About Deck Nine
Deck
Nine Games is an independent game developer dedicated to crafting interactive
story games that inspire, transform, and entertain players. Our passion is
storytelling games.
Our
first narrative game, Life is Strange: Before the Storm is loved by fans and
has won multiple awards, including Game of Year and was nominated for both a
VGA and a BAFTA. The studio is 100+ people and is in sunny Westminster,
Colorado at the base of the Rocky Mountains. We hope to share more information
about our next title with Square Enix as soon as we can.
We’re
looking for talented and self-motivated people to join us as we aim to rise to
the top of the storytelling game studios. If this sounds appealing to you,
please apply!
As
the crafters of stories that encompass the full breadth of life’s experiences,
Deck Nine is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and multicultural team
in which people from all walks of life feel inspired to do their best work. We
are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and believe deeply in the
creativity and strength built from diversity of race, religion, disability,
gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, and
the many other qualities that make us different.
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