Staff Game Engineer

We're expanding our team of world-class ML scientists, ML engineers, full-stack software
engineers, and gaming engineers. As a Tech Lead and Staff Game Engineer at Sapient, you'll
shape how customers deploy our AI Brains into game worlds, focusing on cross-platform
integration, performance optimization, and character mechanics systems. This role is
poised to evolve into leading all gaming infrastructure as our team grows. We're seeking
experienced innovators with a passion for revolutionizing gaming using AI.

Who you are

• Passionate, self-driven, and adaptable with strong experience shipping at least one A - AAA video game
• Fast at executing tasks including designing, writing, and testing high-quality code
• Passion for working with low-level systems and cross-platform game engines
• Interested in growth and leadership. As our team grows, this role will take on more leadership scope and responsibilities

What you will do

• Create a reusable, platform-agnostic package for deploying the Sapient brain into video games, leveraging experience with Unity, Unreal, or other major commercial game engines.
• You will write clean, efficient, and maintainable object-oriented code in C# or C++, utilizing your strong understanding of programming principles and design patterns
• Use game data, events, interfaces, and characters, and work with a multidisciplinary technical team to create Sapient character mechanics models
• Implement data architecture for fast and compact storage systems within the Sapient product
• Provide insight and creativity on the technical aspects of building video games, to inform our Sapient brain development
• Create sandbox environments in Unity and other major game engines to build and test Sapient brains.
• Provide critical input on the technical feasibility of design ideas, balancing creativity with practicality

*Nice-to-Haves: *

1. interest in cutting-edge machine learning
2. full-stack engineering experience