AI Designer

Summary

Join Escape Velocity, a fully remote team building a culture of play, as an AI Designer. You will create exciting new enemies for a unique, high-mobility shooter, design specs and technical documents, and collaborate with other designers and engineers. Responsibilities include working on NPC creation, scripting, and behavior trees, collaborating with producers, analyzing user data, and presenting new AI ideas. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of professional game design or AI game development experience, technical expertise in Unreal Engine or equivalent, proficiency in blueprint scripting and AI behavior trees, and strong communication skills. Escape Velocity offers excellent benefits, including generous PTO, summer and winter holidays, private medical and dental healthcare, a mental health scheme, a health and wellbeing allowance, a discretionary studio bonus, and top-range tech for your home setup.

Requirements

• Passion for shooters and/or MOBAs
• 2+ years of professional game design or AI game development experience
• Technical expertise in Unreal and/or equivalent AAA game engines
• Proficiency in blueprint scripting and AI behaviour trees
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Knowledge of competitive titles and their use of enemies / NPCs
• Background or education in game design or programming

Responsibilities

• Create exciting new enemies for a unique, high-mobility shooter
• Create design specs and technical documents
• Work alongside other AI designers and engineers on NPC creation, scripting, and behaviour trees
• Collaborate with our producers to plan future work and identify dependencies
• Analyze user data, feedback, and heatmaps to understand how the game’s AI is functioning and what changes need to be made
• Present and pitch new AI ideas to the team

Benefits

• A generous PTO allowance
• Summer and Winter holidays studio closure (separate to PTO allowance)
• Private Medical & Dental Healthcare
• Private Mental Health scheme
• A generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance
• Discretionary Studio Bonus
• Top range tech for your home set up
• Other benefits based on your region