Senior Gameplay AI Engineer - Player Bots

2K; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 108,900 - 161,160; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid holidays

Paid vacation

Sick days

Parental leave

Wellbeing programs

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

2K is seeking a Senior Gameplay Engineer to develop our Player Bots—AI agents that stand in for human players in our AAA free-to-play, cross-platform title. You will design and implement combat AI, humanization, and macro behaviors using C++, Unreal Engine 5, and our in-house utilities.

You will optimize performance for large bot populations, extend the utility AI framework, collaborate with design, and validate behaviors through playtests.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of gameplay or game AI engineering on shipped action games.
• Strong C++ and Unreal Engine fluency, including AI controllers, navigation, and EQS.
• Utility AI or comparable decision-making architectures.
• AI in networked multiplayer: client/server authority, prediction, dedicated servers.
• Humanlike combat AI: aim and error models, reaction time, believable movement.
• Optimizing many concurrent agents: LOD and tick throttling.

Responsibilities

• Develop combat behavior: target prioritization, hero-appropriate weapon and ability use, movement, and disengagement
• Develop humanization: tunable aim, reaction time, and error models across difficulty levels
• Develop macro behavior: team cohesion, traversal, pacing, events, looting, and progression
• Extend our utility AI framework: new behaviors, scoring, and tuning
• Keep bot populations performant: throttling, suspension, and LOD
• Extend bots as automated test clients, from feature tests to match-scale load tests
• Build bot evaluation tooling: debug visualization and playtest metrics
• Partner with design to tune behavior through playtests

Skills

C++

Unreal Engine

AI programming

Gameplay AI

Networking

Tools

EQS

Gameplay Ability System

StateTree

Job description

2K is seeking a Senior Gameplay Engineer to develop our Player Bots—AI agents that stand in for human players in our AAA free-to-play, cross-platform title. You will design and implement combat AI, humanization, and macro behaviors using C++, Unreal Engine 5, and our in-house utilities.

You will optimize performance for large bot populations, extend the utility AI framework, collaborate with design, and validate behaviors through playtests.