Senior Game AI Designer (Unreal Engine)

Location: Remote, based in Canada

Company

hirify.global facilitates AI-powered candidate matching and forwards shortlisted applications to the partner company, which manages the hiring process.

What you will do

• Design engaging enemies, NPC experiences, AI behaviors, and encounters for a high-mobility multiplayer action game.
• Create AI design specifications, technical documentation, and implementation plans.
• Collaborate with game designers and engineers on NPC creation, scripting, behavior trees, and AI systems.
• Plan AI development work with producers, including dependencies and priorities.
• Analyze player data, feedback, and heatmaps to evaluate and improve AI performance and player experience.
• Present AI concepts and designs to creative and technical leads and directors, incorporating feedback.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in game design, AI game development, or a related field.
• Professional understanding of NPCs in competitive or strategic multiplayer games.
• Strong technical expertise with Unreal Engine or an equivalent AAA game engine.
• Senior-level proficiency with Blueprint scripting and AI behavior trees.
• Ability to translate creative concepts into practical, technically sound AI systems and use player data and feedback to improve them.
• Experience collaborating with programmers, designers, producers, and other multidisciplinary teams; strong communication, presentation, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote environment supporting team members across multiple regions.
• Autonomy, transparency, experimentation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Generous paid time off, plus summer and winter studio closures.
• Private medical, dental, and mental health support.
• Annual health and wellbeing allowance, discretionary studio bonus, and region-dependent benefits.
• High-end technology and equipment for a home setup.

Hiring process

• hirify.global uses an AI-powered matching process to review applications and share a shortlist with the hiring company.
• Interviews, assessments, and final decisions are managed by the partner company’s internal team.