Insomniac Games
Senior Gameplay Programmer - AI
Job Summary
This role involves collaborating with content teams to design, implement, and maintain enemy and ally gameplay experiences focusing on AI systems. The senior programmer should have extensive experience in AI feature development, C++ programming, and system architecture, with a strong emphasis on performance and scalability. A key part of the role is mentorship and cross-team communication to ensure high-quality, player-centered gameplay features. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package including health coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, wellness programs, and employee discounts.
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Job Description
Insomniac is looking for a Senior Gameplay AI Programmer. In this role you'll collaborate closely with our content teams as we design, implement and maintain industry leading enemy and ally gameplay experiences. A Senior Gameplay Programmer anticipates design needs and player expectations and leverages their experience to provide feedback on code quality, user experience, and performance throughout the course of development. We value ownership, technical expertise, initiative, and effective communication
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following:
- Collaborate across teams to drive player experience and feature quality with a focus on AI<>Player interactions
- Act as a subject matter expert for our AI team, providing mentorship/assistance to more junior staff through code reviews and participation in our AI special interest group
- Create features and systems that can work flexibly and dynamically across diverse environments and situations
- Architect and implement systems that are as simple as possible without compromising scalability and extensibility
- Accurately estimate assigned work, contribute to efforts to ensure work is in scope, and proactively update team on task status.
- Understand complex existing systems and how they interact. Expand or create new systems as needed to deliver on the promise of our features
- Work across teams to understand how our internal customers use the tools and systems that we develop to deliver great gameplay experiences
- Drive new feature and architecture development within AI Systems
Skills you should bring to this role:
- Prior experience owning and delivering features in the areas of enemy, boss, or ally AI
- Extensive C++ skills
- Knowledge of memory management, performance optimization, systems interfaces, and other programming principles and best practices
- Knowledge of mathematical concepts, particularly 3D math and visualization using linear algebra
- An eye for player-centered design
- Ability and willingness to articulate strengths and weaknesses of proposed features, and to advocate for alternatives
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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Base pay is one component of our total compensation package. Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location, as well as additional compensation components, such as annual bonus, profit sharing, and other incentive plans.
In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.
Insomniac Games
Insomniac Games is an American video game developer based in Burbank, California, and part of PlayStation Studios. It was founded in 1994 by Ted Price as Xtreme Software
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