Senior AI Programmer

Build a Rocket Boy; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming studio is seeking a Senior AI Programmer to design and implement large scale AI systems. The role involves mentoring junior staff and collaborating across teams to innovate AI gameplay solutions. Candidates should have extensive experience in AI systems, strong C++ abilities, and excellent communication skills. Benefits include significant leave, medical insurance, and stock options. This role is primarily remote, based in the UK.

Benefits

Unlimited coaching & therapy

Stock Options

Pension scheme

Social events

Private Medical Insurance

Qualifications

• 4 years experience working on AI systems such as perception, behaviours, navigation, decision making.
• Able to tune AI systems based on high level design input with minimal assistance.
• Capable of reading and quickly understanding complex code.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality AI gameplay systems.
• Help define technical direction and develop innovative solutions.
• Mentor junior members of the AI programming team.

Skills

Strong C++ programming and debugging skills

Excellent awareness of AI paradigms

Strong communication skills

Extensive algorithm and data structure skills

Self-motivated and driven to creatively solve problems

Job description

Senior AI Programmer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Remote

Reporting To: Jeremie Praud

Description

The Senior AI Programmer role will report to the Lead AI Programmer. Senior AI Programmers are responsible for designing and implementing large scale AI systems with minimal guidance and providing technical support and mentoring to more junior members of staff. They are also expected to be proactive in dealing with other disciplines to resolve problems quickly and elicit clear requirements and translate them into flexible reusable solutions. As well as solving challenging new technical problems, a senior AI programmer will have a good understanding of best‑practice and standard techniques across a range of AI gameplay systems and will keep up to date on innovations within the industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality AI gameplay systems using appropriate levels of abstraction
• Choose appropriate AI solutions to balance the performance and behaviour requirements of the game
• Identify and debug technical problems quickly and efficiently
• Prioritise, plan and manage the time of assigned tasks with minimal oversight
• Help define the technical direction and develop innovative solutions for difficult AI problems
• Help mentor junior members of the AI programming team, and communicate clearly with other team members and teams with minimal external help
• Support other teams with the use of AI systems developed by the team
• Use appropriate data structures and algorithms to maximize efficiency (for both development time and runtime performance)
• Be vigilant for and report new problems, delays and risks to the appropriate lead/director
• Request support from higher levels when required

Requirements

• 4 years experience working on AI systems such as perception, behaviours, navigation, decision making
• Excellent awareness of AI specific paradigms and algorithms including performance and trade‑offs of different approaches
• Able to tune AI systems based on high level design input with minimal assistance
• Strong C++ programming and debugging skills
• Strong communication skills, and comfortable working across teams and mentoring staff.
• Extensive algorithm and data structure skills (including time and space complexity and real world vs theoretical performance)
• Able to understand and utilize multi‑threading primitives
• Able to understand and utilize high level networking concepts
• Capable of reading and quickly understanding complex code
• Self‑motivated and driven to creatively solve problems.
• Able to plan the work to build an entire sub‑system including external dependencies with minimal input.

Benefits

Our Global Benefits & Perks

• Unlimited coaching & therapy — with Oliva, to support your mental health
• Stock Options — everyone owns a piece of our success
• Pension scheme — up to 5% employer matched contribution to finance those golden years
• Socials — office & remote events, play sessions and company‑wide parties
• And even more benefits based on your location!

If you’re based in the UK

• 25 Annual Leave + 8 bank holidays - we’re flexible with most bank holidays so you can use the time to celebrate what’s important to you
• Private Medical Insurance - full cover with AXA
• Healthcare Cash Plan - Level 3 cover with Medicash
• Cycle2Work Scheme - lease a bike through us and save on tax too!
• Electric Car Charging - electric car charging at our Port office in Edinburgh, Scotland.