AI Gameplay Engineer — Prototyping & LiveOps

Puzzle Cats; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Puzzle Cats is seeking an AI Product Engineer to build AI-native game experiences at scale. You’ll own features end‑to‑end from gameplay systems to analytics, shipping rapidly and iterating on live games with millions of players.

You’ll work across Unity (C#), backend infrastructure, and AI systems, using tools like OpenAI and vector databases to prototype, test, and productionize game features that delight players while optimizing costs and latency.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to ship AI-enabled features in products.
• Strong OO programming and clean code practices.
• Experience shipping or prototyping model-driven functionality.
• Experience integrating LLMs into production systems.
• Ability to analyze player data to improve gameplay.

Responsibilities

• Use AI to create new player experiences that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.
• Build and ship mobile game features in Unity (C#) for iOS and Android.
• Prototype and launch new game ideas quickly from concept to playable builds.
• Design and build AI-powered gameplay and product features, including content generation and personalization.
• Design and implement AI systems and pipelines (RAG, embeddings, tool use).
• Optimize AI systems for cost, latency, and scalability.
• Develop and maintain backend systems for live games (leaderboards, events, A/B tests, cloud services).
• Collaborate with designers and analysts to turn data into gameplay improvements.
• Own full feature lifecycle: implementation, analytics instrumentation, debugging, optimization.
• Review code and maintain high engineering standards, including AI-generated code.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Python/JavaScript

LLMs prompt design

Game development experience

Team collaboration

Tools

Unity (C#)

Cloud infrastructure

Git

OpenAI / Anthropic / LLMs

Job description

Puzzle Cats is seeking an AI Product Engineer to build AI-native game experiences at scale. You’ll own features end‑to‑end from gameplay systems to analytics, shipping rapidly and iterating on live games with millions of players.

You’ll work across Unity (C#), backend infrastructure, and AI systems, using tools like OpenAI and vector databases to prototype, test, and productionize game features that delight players while optimizing costs and latency.