Studio: Bungie
Job Opening: Senior AI Designer
Location: United States
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work with a multi-disciplinary team of content creators and engineers to create memorable AI experiences
- Write design spec documents for new characters, AI systems, game systems, or tool capabilities
- Proactively solicit feedback from stakeholders, and constantly upgrade your ideas and implementations based on that feedback
- Work with Bungie’s in-house character creation and data editing tools to create new characters, weapons, attacks, and abilities
- Write text-based scripts that define the behavior tree for AI in the game, using a proprietary scripting language
- Troubleshoot, debug and fix AI behavior and performances
- Tune and maintain large amounts of content and systems
Qualifications & Skills:
- Strong understanding of first-person action games; what makes these games fun, what the rules of thumb are for the genre, how and when to break them
- Technically proficient; able to learn and utilize complex systems and toolchains to create gameplay experiences; able to suggest workflow improvements
- Ability to analyze gameplay experiences, identify problems, and generate solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have:
- Experience designing AI for first-person action games
- Experience in Animation; able to talk anticipation, follow through, character, and timing
- Experience in creating action game missions or activities; able to understand how another designer will use AI characters to create a fun and memorable encounter
