Senior A.I. Programmer

at  Climax Studios

Climax Studios was established nearly 30 years ago, we have an extensive history in developing all kinds of digital experiences across all formats, and we have won multiple awards along the way.
You take your creativity seriously and games should be what get you fired up and passionate. At Climax we embrace those who see things in a different way and aren’t afraid to try-out new things and push themselves out of their comfort zones.
We have a new state of the art studio located in the heart of the beautiful Albert Dock in the city centre of Liverpool and we are looking for an onsite, and are looking for a deeply talented Senior A.I. Programmer to help us generate the best open world experiences in our games and push the limits of Artificial intelligence in areas such as pathfinding, combat, and decision-making.
We are seeking down to earth and creative thinking programmer, a coder who can bring their experience and considerable coding talents to our studio, an engineer that we can learn from as well as teach and grow with.

Responsibilities

• Work with existing engine code base to develop and improve AI.
• Develop AI / game code as well as tools and extend it for high profile projects.
• Specify and contribute to testing procedures.
• Integrate creative and technical design processes while ensuring that high production values are never compromised.

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, games development or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years commercial games programming experience.

REQUIREMENTS

• A high level of proficiency with C#/ C++
• Experience with UE 4/5.
• Excellent math.
• Proven problem-solving ability.
• Broad familiarity with AI in game development is required.
• You would also have experience of developing modern character AI systems.
• Experience of pathfinding, steering, and motion planning.
• State machines and behaviour trees.
• Implementing cooperation and group behaviours
• Experience of working within a team.
• A real passion for games programming.
  Please don’t forget to include your CV, a cover letter, and most importantly a link to your GitHub, website or portfolio, it’s very difficult for us to assess your code abilities if you don’t provide us with any. Please remember that we make games and games are fun so it we would love to receive a well-written and passionate cover letter.

• Work with existing engine code base to develop and improve AI.
• Develop AI / game code as well as tools and extend it for high profile projects.
• Specify and contribute to testing procedures.
• Integrate creative and technical design processes while ensuring that high production values are never compromised