Contract Senior Creature AI Designer (Unannounced Project)

ArenaNet is a game development company known for the award-winning Guild Wars game series. They are seeking a Contract Senior Creature AI Designer to design, implement, and polish AI behaviors for an unannounced project using Unreal Engine 5, collaborating with various teams to ensure high-quality gameplay experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate – Partner with Content Design, Technical Design, Creature Design, Art, and Engineering to deliver quality AI behaviors that serve the needs of those teams
• Plan – Work with Systems and Product Leads to support development timelines and goals for content completion
• Simplify – Craft elegant solutions that create opportunities for players to engage with AI in understandable and intentional ways
• Drive – Maintain vision and direction for the AI behaviors needed across the game
• Implement - Use Unreal Engine 5 tools and scripting systems to rapidly prototype and stress-test AI behaviors across the scenario space to find what works for each system
• Prioritize – Work with the AI Engineering team to prioritize work and focus efforts on problems in priority order
• Polish - Iterate on features based on player feedback, data, internal playtests, and design reviews to ensure gameplay moments are polished, intuitive, and aligned with the overall player experience
• Exemplify – Be an example for the team of the quality bar, how to work effectively within constraints, and how to be a professional within the industry

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in game development with a focus on live service, metagame features, and rewards systems
• 1 or more AAA games shipped in an AI behaviors focused role
• Pre-production game design experience
• Experience implementing gameplay systems using Unreal Engine 5
• Strong experience working on Unreal AI behaviors
• Experience working on AI Behaviors for a multiplayer game
• Ability to implement and iterate content using engine tools, scripting systems, or visual scripting
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills when working with cross-disciplinary teams