Description
SUMMARY OF POSITION
For over 20 years Monolith has been obsessed with delivering
unique gaming experiences for our fans. Combining innovative gameplay, cutting
edge technology and AI, inventive narratives and stunning visuals to create
award winning and best-selling games. Starting with our first game, Blood
through to our most recent title, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor which has been
awarded with numerous Game of the Year Awards, including Gamespot, Joystiq and
IGN as well as Best Action/Adventure Game at the 2014 Game Awards.
We are dedicated to ensuring that our next game is our best
yet, and to achieve that we need the best and brightest talent the industry has
to offer.
Monolith Productions seeks a Senior Software Engineer - AI to join the award-winning engineering team behind Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, creating game systems for exciting, ground breaking action adventure games for PlayStation 4, XBoxOne and PC.
As a Senior Software Engineer - AI, you will bring your years of relevant experience to bear architecting and implementing AI and gameplay systems for our next triple A title. You will work closely with Design, Animation, and the rest of our talented engineering team to build on Monolith's tradition of strong and innovative Artificial Intelligence.
In addition, as part of Monolith's highly collaborative engineering group, you will have ample opportunity to share your experience and expertise on the development of both game specific features and general engineering systems across the entire codebase.
This job will require collaboration with the rest of Monolith's engineering team on issues of technical design. You will also work closely with other engineers and content development experts on implementing and refining systems to meet Design's vision.
The Senior Software Engineer - AI will also work with their team's production staff to help develop realistic schedules and identify all dependencies.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES- Design, author, maintain and document robust and highly optimized systems that meet all design, technical and schedule requirements.
- Work closely with QA and your technical leadership to ensure the stability and accuracy of your systems by identifying, communicating and resolving defects.
- Author, review and provide feedback on technical and end-user documentation of your systems.
- Collaborate with technical leadership and other engineers to help establish overall technical design and architecture.
- Collaborate with Lead Engineer, Technical Art and Game Engineers to identify systems in need of optimization or replacement and on proposals of exciting new graphics technologies.
- Work closely with the production staff in building and maintaining realistic schedules and identifying dependencies; coordinate with QA and leads to ensure successful roll out of new features to the team and establish testing and maintenance of systems.
- Review the work of other engineers and mentor them to improve their knowledge and skills.
JOB REQUIREMENTS- Professional Training, Technical Training or Certification
- B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5+ years professional C/C++ programming.
- Experience developing standard AI techniques including behavior selection and navigation.
- Experience working with Animators and Designers on animation control.
- Experience implementing and maintaining major portions of the AI system for a large scale game.
- Experience developing for either Xbox One or PS4 (preferably both).
- Worked on multi-year, large-scale game title from concept to ship in a AI engineering capacity (preferred).
- Ability to collaborate with engineers and content creators to develop robust and fun game-play.
- Ability to easily communicate technical topics with both engineers and non-technical people alike.
- Ability to openly discuss and review technical proposals, requirements, designs, algorithms, source code, and reference documents with engineers, content creators and managers.
- Strong focus on performance and memory implications as it relates to AI systems.
- Creative, focused, results-oriented, self-motivated, resourceful problem-solver with excellent debugging skills.
- Ability to work well in a team development environment with strong communication skills.
- Strong desire to build industry-leading AI systems and ship the highest quality AAA games.
The Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran's status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.