Senior AI Engineer

Job Description

Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Melbourne, Australia, Toronto, Canada and Guildford, UK – Sledgehammer Games is the videogame development team behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare and Call of Duty®: WWII. Since our founding in 2009, our greatest passion has been making AAA games. The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We firmly believe in supporting our passionate employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker.

We are constantly evolving and innovating – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. With our extraordinary audio, design, engineering and art teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We love making games and we work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for dedicated game developers for our exciting next project.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Your Mission:
Our team is seeking a dedicated and passionate AI Engineer who will work closely with other engineers and content teams to expand our AI systems to create new and exciting experiences for our players. This is an excellent opportunity to work with a passionate engineering team on the world's most popular game franchises! We'd like to speak with you!
• Work with AI engineering teams to expand our AI technology in order to push the limits of what our AI can currently do
• Work alongside our design and content teams to develop new AI characters and behaviors
• Implement, debug and optimize major systems in C/C++ and other languages in the context of a large cross platform codebase
• Design and implement optimized AI systems
• Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers

Player Profile:
• Excellent C++ programing skills, with knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Fluency in 3D math and algebra, related to game programming
• Strong design sensibilities and outstanding communication skills.
• A passion for making video games
• Validated debugging skills
• Experience extending an established code base
• 5+ years of experience in games or real-time AI
• 1+ shipped games
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Math related field

Bonus Points:
• Expertise in one or more of the following areas:
• AI systems in a networked environment
• Animation – blend trees, IK, motion matching
• AI navigation mesh generation and pathfinding
• AI controlled vehicles
• Optimization
• Experience with scripting languages
• Console development experience

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g38wbx-18-117-81-240-42 in your application.