Senior Systems Engineer - AI

Experiment 7 Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Experiment 7 is a VR games studio based in New York and San Diego. We develop high quality strategy games with broad market appeal, driven by battle-tested game design leadership, data expertise, and a team of VR, mobile, console and PC veterans.

The Senior Systems Engineer with emphasis on AI collaborates with the Technical Director to design and implement AI features behind our strategy games, delivering tournament-level intelligent opponents and balancing systems for engaging core gameplay.

Qualifications

• Significant AI engineering expertise and experience.
• Experience writing performant code.
• Proven ability to work with an established codebase and architecture.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• A deep love of games.

Responsibilities

• Implement, balance and fine tune AI systems
• Work with designers to combine AI systems into features that contribute to core gameplay
• Create development tools that aid in development and tuning of AI systems
• Contribute to Experiment 7's engineering culture by improving our core architecture, institutional knowledge and AI technology best practices

Skills

AI engineering

Performance optimization

Codebase navigation

Cross-functional collaboration

Love of games

Job description

Job Description

The Senior Systems Engineer with emphasis on AI works with the game’s Technical Director to develop AI systems and opponents for our VR strategy titles. This individual is responsible for designing and implementing AI features behind our strategy games up to tournament-level intelligent opposition.

Responsibilities

• Implement, balance and fine tune AI systems
• Work with designers to combine AI systems into features that contribute to core gameplay
• Create development tools that aid in development and tuning of AI systems
• Contribute to Experiment 7's engineering culture by improving our core architecture, institutional knowledge and AI technology best practices

Qualifications

• Significant AI engineering expertise and experience
• Experience writing performant code
• Proven ability to work with an established codebase and architecture
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• A deep love of games

Beneficial Experience

• VR development
• Expert level Unity knowledge
• Expert level C# knowledge
• AI for real-time or turn-based strategy games
• AI for board game implementations
• Gameplay Engineering experience
• Writing and maintaining technical design documentation

About Experiment 7

Experiment 7 is a VR games studio based in New York and San Diego. We develop high quality strategy games with broad market appeal. Our staff combines battle-tested game design leadership with unparalleled game data expertise and a dream team of VR, mobile, console and PC veterans. We believe in collaborative creative development, sound quality of life and an uncompromising commitment to product quality.