Senior Software Engineer — Match AI & Simulation (Hybrid)

Sports Interactive Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Dental Plans

Gym Memberships

Travel Insurance

Mental health support

Job summary

Sports Interactive Limited, based at Here East, London, seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Match AI & Simulation) to advance the in-house football match AI and simulation engine. You will work on AI agents, decision-making, pathing, and game state management, collaborating across designers, QA, and engineering teams for cross-platform performance and deterministic simulation.

You will refactor existing AI architectures toward modern patterns, build debugging/visualisation tools, and contribute to

Qualifications

• Five years of professional C++ experience.
• Experience designing and developing game AI and simulation paradigms.
• Strong mathematical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication for collaboration with engineers, designers, QA, and production.
• Experience with C# and Unity is beneficial.
• Experience with deterministic simulation systems is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop, extend, improve, and maintain the match simulation codebase, workflows, and tools.
• Design and implement game AI systems for match agents, including decision-making and tactics.
• Refactor AI-driven systems into modern, maintainable architectures.
• Build and maintain debugging/visualisation tools using ImGUI-based tooling.
• Collaborate with designers, QA, producers, and other engineering teams.
• Work with seniors/leads to drive new features and roadmap.
• Research and implement new simulation technologies and AI techniques.
• Consider cross-platform and performance requirements for deterministic simulation.

Skills

C++

Game AI

Behavior trees

Finite state machines

Unity

Python

Deterministic sim

Tools

ImGUI

Job description

Sports Interactive Limited, based at Here East, London, seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Match AI & Simulation) to advance the in-house football match AI and simulation engine. You will work on AI agents, decision-making, pathing, and game state management, collaborating across designers, QA, and engineering teams for cross-platform performance and deterministic simulation.

You will refactor existing AI architectures toward modern patterns, build debugging/visualisation tools, and contribute to