Senior AI & Tools Engineer – Live Game, Hybrid

Respawn Entertainment; Montreal; On-site; CAD 170,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks vacation

Extended health/dental/vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Respawn Entertainment is seeking a Senior Fullstack Developer, AI and Tools to build tooling for Apex Legends and explore AI automation within the tools.

As a Senior, you will report to the Lead Developer of Shared Tools, collaborating with content/technical/product teams to deliver extendable, high-performance tooling that supports live game content creation workflows.

This role is based in Vancouver or Montreal with a hybrid schedule (3 days onsite per week).

Qualifications

• 8+ years developing, building, deploying, and scaling enterprise-grade online applications for a game engine/live service.
• Familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex), vector databases, and foundational models (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source weights).
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; experience with modern JavaScript frameworks is highly preferred.
• Solid understanding of at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Python, Node.js, C#) and RESTful API design.
• C/C++ experience is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with UI workflows and UI authoring frameworks.
• Experience working in large, shared codebases.
• Deep understanding of system design, microservices architecture, design patterns, and scaling high-traffic systems.
• Experience with cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Good knowledge of at least one version control system (Git/Gitlab/Perforce) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of computer science foundations.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain tools and pipelines supporting a live game.
• Identify opportunities for AI tools integration, prototype integrations and architecture and develop AI enabled solutions.
• Connect models to internal tools, APIs, and databases to execute complex, multi-step agentic workflows.
• Own multi-disciplinary technical initiatives from design, user testing to release to internal customers.
• Optimize memory, CPU and performance of new and existing tools.
• Debug and resolve complex issues in a large scale codebase.
• Integrate platform and partner technologies into the game engine.
• Collaborate with content teams on feature development.
• Mentor developers through code reviews and technical guidance.

Skills

Online applications scale

AI orchestration frameworks

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Server-side programming

C/C++

UI workflows

Large codebases

Cloud services

Version control

Tools

Git

GitLab

Perforce

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Respawn Entertainment is seeking a Senior Fullstack Developer, AI and Tools to build tooling for Apex Legends and explore AI automation within the tools.

As a Senior, you will report to the Lead Developer of Shared Tools, collaborating with content/technical/product teams to deliver extendable, high-performance tooling that supports live game content creation workflows.

This role is based in Vancouver or Montreal with a hybrid schedule (3 days onsite per week).