Senior Gameplay Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$108.9K - $161.2K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Gameplay Engineer
31st Union
Role Description 31st Union is looking for 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 action game. Using C++, Unreal Engine 5, and our in-house utility AI framework, you will make bots that fight, traverse, loot, and team up convincingly enough that players second-guess whether they’re facing a human. The same bots power mode backfill and automated testing at scale. - 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 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 Requirements - Player bots in a competitive shooter - Unreal Engine 5, StateTree, and the Gameplay Ability System - Control systems (e.g., PID controllers) and input simulation - Automated test clients and load testing Benefits - Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage - 14 paid holidays per calendar year - Paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program - Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year - Paid parental and compassionate leave - Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support - Family planning support through Maven - Commuter benefits - Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses
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