Lead - AI Gameplay Engineer

Gym Class is the best rated experience on Meta Quest, and #1 most played sports game in VR. Millions have downloaded GC to step on the VR basketball court (+ now football, baseball, and more) and make new friends, compete in simulation gameplay, and even break a sweat. Join us on our mission to connect the world by simulating it!

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As Lead AI Engineer, you'll drive our AI roadmap, and balance shipping product with research at the forefront of AI, spatial computing, and social gaming. Your work is pivotal towards facilitating infinite, personalized social experiences for the Gym Class community. Your scope will first focus on:

• AI Bots: Own our AI bot gameplay systems. Step-by-step, you'll build the ultimate social gaming bots that can interact with our community across a variety of sports, games, and social activities.
• Content Generation: You'll build world-class UGC tooling and generative AI systems for 3D assets and environments.
• Motion Systems: You'll work with large-scale motion data and media to improve our animation systems.
• Leadership: Once you begin shipping product, you'll have the opportunity to build your own squad and accelerate your roadmap. Your scope may also expand to a wider set of machine learning problems across our company, including our recommendation and moderation systems.

In this role, you'll collaborate with our co-founders, engineers, artists, and designers. You'll ship great work directly to a large and eager community, while also building the foundations for a fast-moving AI squad.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Deep knowledge of C# and Unity: Demonstrated proficiency in C# programming, showcasing your ability to implement and optimize game systems in Unity. Likely Staff+ role at consumer game shipping to millions of players.
• Gameplay Engineering Skills: Track record of shipping AI gameplay systems to large, consumer audiences on mobile (or other resource constrained environments). Experience working on games with heavy multiplayer and physics elements. Experience with various bots systems, including state machines, behavior trees, reinforcement learning, behavior cloning.
• Optimization Skills: Strong skills in game optimization to ensure the highest performance, with an additional advantage if you have experience in mobile game development in Unity.
• Team Collaboration & Problem-Solving Abilities: Effective communication across various disciplines and creative problem-solving are essential. As the lead AI gaming engineer, you'll be tasked with building and leading a squad as the roadmap scales, making collaboration and leadership skills crucial to success.

PAY AND BENEFITS

Salary ranges may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Additional benefits for this role include: equity; and medical, dental, and vision benefits.