AI Programmer (Far Cry)

What you’ll do This programmer will be responsible for anything related to NPC behavior tech: • Shared responsibility for maintaining, debugging, and improving anything related to NPC behaviors: Combat and NPC coordination and collaboration. Systemic NPCs reactions to elements (fire, poison, etc.) and any other significant in-game event. Working on unique behaviors for archetypes. Making NPCs understandable and believable, with an emphasis on animation. • Work in C++ and behavior trees, both to build AI behaviors and building user-friendly and reliable nodes. • Have a knack for AI and game design and be very quality focused. We expect people to regularly play the game, give feedback and iterate on their own features. • Be comfortable working closely with animators and the systems they use. • Proactively update the AI leadership team about potentially unidentified work, such as missing features and/or performance issues and work on them. What You Bring Around 5 years of experience in AI programming, ideally in the video game industry Proficiency in C++ language An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent Experience developing on video game consoles That rare mix of attention to detail and flexibility in your work organization A proficiency to communicate with all disciplines and to support and elevate the team in terms of quality and vision of the game You are creative and thirsty for innovation