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Overview

Arkane Austin is looking for a Lead AI Engineer to join us and lead a team of talented engineers in developing AAA games for PC and console systems.

Our emergent gameplay style and immersive simulation leads to a lot of challenges. As a Lead AI Engineer, you will split your time between guiding a team of engineers solving those challenges while also contributing to the engineering development effort.

Responsibilities

  • Report to the Director of Engineering and manage a team of engineers whose responsibilities include the design, implementation, and maintenance of AI related systems and features
  • Work closely with production and design teams to provide feedback on feature design work
  • Work closely with production staff and other team leads to plan and schedule work for your team
  • Contribute as an active member of the engineering team
  • Work with the team to identify, plan and execute optimizations to AI systems
  • Mentor AI team engineers

Qualifications

  • Computer Science degree or equivalent degree and/or experience
  • At least 5 years of game industry experience, with at least 3 years as a Lead Engineer or higher managing a team of engineers
  • Substantial work on at least one, two preferred, shipped AAA multi-platform games
  • Excellent C++ language and design skills
  • Cross-platform experience (PC, Consoles)
  • Familiarity with modern AI systems and architectures
  • Familiarity with navigation, locomotion, animation, collision, and physics systems
  • Excellent delegation skills and ability to empower others on the team
  • Excellent organization and time management skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to accurately estimate schedules and deliver high quality work products to that schedule
  • Experience with real-time concurrent systems is a plus
  • Experience with network and online features is a plus
  • Must be a self-motivated and energetic team player with a very strong work ethic and cooperative attitude

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.