Senior AI Engineer

Responsibilities

• Companion Group is a AAA co-development gaming studio with a globally distributed and fully remote setup, renowned for its adeptness in overcoming the most intricate challenges in multiplayer game development.
• Embedded seamlessly within a client's in-house team, we collaborate harmoniously to turn dreams into reality. Our portfolio boasts groundbreaking games developed in collaboration with major studios worldwide. As a fully remote studio with colleagues across the globe, we value and emphasise clear, continuous, and transparent communication as highly as technical skills.
• As a Senior AI Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of bringing virtual worlds to life by crafting highly believable, complex, and scalable AI systems for multiplayer games. You will work closely with a talented team of developers, designers, and animators to build robust agent decision-making architectures, optimize pathfinding for massive entity counts, and deliver seamless, network-efficient AI behavior. Your expertise will drive critical aspects of our AI technology stack, ensuring players face challenging, immersive, and memorable adversaries and companions.
• Architect & Implement: Design, develop, and refine cutting-edge, multiplayer-ready AI frameworks, decision-making systems, and navigation architectures inside and outside of Unreal Engine.
• Collaborate: Partner with cross-functional teams, particularly designers and animators, to build expressive, tactical, and innovative AI behaviors that align with game design pillars.
• Experience: 6+ years of professional game development experience, with a heavy emphasis on core game AI architecture.
• Experience implementing advanced spatial reasoning frameworks, such as Influence Maps, Environment Query System (EQS) overrides, or tactical positioning grids.
• Familiarity with scripting languages and tools development (e.g., Lua, Python) for designer-facing AI authoring tools.
• Experience with scalable cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) to support distributed, server-side AI computation.

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