Senior Game Designer, AI Systems

Job Description

As a Game Designer, you will design and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity help craft in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to create innovative, player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world. Working on an early stage product, you will help decipher one of Riot's next big bets.

As a Senior Game Designer specializing in AI systems on the R&D team, you excel in designing Mechanics and Systems for both enemy and ally AI. You partner with other designers, artists, and engineers to create and iterate on a variety of features, from core systems like navigation and aggro to crafting specific behavior trees and abilities for individual AI. All of these features contribute to a combat experience which is deep, compelling, and always feels great to play. You will report to the Systems Lead on the team.

Responsibilities:
• Own and drive overall enemy systems and experience
• Lead other mechanics designers in good AI design and implementation practice
• Lead small cross disciplinary teams (2-5 people) to build systems and mechanics that achieve product goals.
• Collaborate with player ability designers on low level combat features and verb ecosystem
• Collaborate with level and encounter designers to deliver compelling content experiences
• Create and provide multiple potential designs and solutions. Articulate trade-offs and risks between different options.
• Playtest the game and help push for continued improvements for existing designs and fresh prototypes.
• Seek opportunities for new design spaces in collaboration with Product Managers and Design Leadership.

Required Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design
• 3+ years of experience working with enemy AI
• You have demonstrated proficiency in scripting in at least one engine in a shipped title
• Shipped or worked on at least one AAA+ online game
• Can create complex mechanics and systems with attention to the player impacts and downstream effects

Desired Qualifications
• Experience working on a live product
• Experience designing ally AI
• Is familiar with the LoL IP
Our Perks:

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.
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