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Tangentlemen is looking for an AI Engineer with experience with Unreal engine to join its team in Playa Vista, California.

June 5, 2017

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AI EngineerTangentlemen

Location: Playa Vista, California

Tangentlemen are looking for an AI Engineer for a new Action Adventure game.  If you love working in the Unreal engine and have a passion for multiplayer games, join a team of industry veterans dedicated to making the highest quality games. 

Responsibilities:

  • Research, design, implement, extend, and maintain network systems; bn as well as related areas of game development such as navigation, game mechanics, player controls, animation, and physics.

  • You may be asked to help the rest of the team in other engineering areas.

  • Collaborate with other engineers to develop various gameplay systems.

  • Write well-architected maintainable code with an eye towards re-usability for multiple games.

  • Develop and test code, fix bugs, profile and optimize code as directed.

  • Identify technical and developmental risks/obstacles and generate solutions to overcome identified risks.

  • Willing to refactor your code or others’ code when needed or as directed

  • Modify Unreal engine code when needed or as directed.

  • Document and peer review technical designs and code submissions with other software engineers.

  • Work with QA, providing information needed to fully test developed code.

  • Keep up to date on state-of-the-art software engineering methods, practices, and technologies.

  • Communicate with other team members, internal customers, and when required external customers to determine requirements.

Requirements:

  • Experience in the design and implementation of game system AI, including related systems such as navigation, physics, player mechanics, and camera.

  • Unreal 4 or 3 development experience.

  • C++ proficiency and strong object oriented design skills.

  • Follow best practices, development processes, and coding standards.

  • Ability to quickly and independently learn and enhance a large established code base.

  • Experience with memory management, multi-threaded programming, cross-platform development, working on a multiplayer project and a working knowledge of 3D math.

  • Ability to prioritize, plan, and organize work

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering or related area or equivalent industry experience.

  • Minimum of 4 years game industry experience with 1 shipped titles especially Console products.

  • Must be an effective communicator, both verbally and written

  • Positive attitude, get along with others, strong work ethic, and the ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment.

  • A passion for making and playing games with an eye for detail and feel for good gameplay.

Pluses:

  • Practice developing in a Scrum or Agile development environment

  • AI programming experience in a shipped Unreal engine 4 title

  • Console development experience

  • Experience enhancing UE4’s editor

Interested? Apply now.

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