Senior Combat Designer – AI

by | Dec 5, 2024 | Uncategorized

About the Role

Title: Senior Combat Designer – AI

Location: Novato, CA United States

Job Description:

Cloud Chamber is looking for a Senior Combat Designer, specialized in AI, to join our team to create industry-leading AI characters and combat gameplay. We would like for our newest teammate to be collaborative by nature and excited to share their experiences and ideas freely with the team. We hope to find a designer who is excited to push boundaries, and engage in innovative experiments to create novel gameplay experiences.

Job Duties

  • Work with the Leads, Design Director, and the design team to pitch and develop interactive AI characters and execute the vision for the game.
  • Act as the primary owner of AI and combat implementation in cross-disciplinary pods
  • Develop working prototypes of AI and combat scenarios.
  • Communicate progress, workflows and availability of AI and combat standards to content developers.
  • Maintain and tune assigned combat AI behavior and parameters through to project completion.
  • Create detailed and easy to follow design documentation.
  • Expand and build on the ideas of player expression and emergent design experiences.
  • Use your creativity to execute on design goals and solve design challenges that push our games forward.
  • Participate in brainstorm sessions, refine, and execute on ideas within a schedule.
  • Collaborate with cross disciplinary teams to execute on design implementation and problem solving.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

  • Shipped at least one AAA title as a designer responsible for AI combatants.
  • 5+ years professional experience in video game design.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience working with a variety of established game toolsets.
  • Deep understanding of game mechanics, combat systems, and AI NPC design.
  • Fluent with game development tools, and experience with pipelines, standards and workflows.
  • Experience working in a collaborative environment with cross disciplinary groups
  • Strong presentation skills.
  • Current knowledge of gaming industry development landscape, technology and tools.
  • Understanding of how AI, tactical space, and player verbs combine to create magic in both scripted and unscripted settings.
  • Extensive knowledge of behavior trees in Unreal Engine 5.
  • In-depth knowledge of industry standard AI, progression systems, and player mechanics features.

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