Senior AI Programmer

Katowice, Poland

Full Time Senior-level / Expert EUR 41K - 77K *

People Can Fly

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Company Description

Founded in 2012, Incuvo is a studio of over 90 individuals working from Poland, Katowice. We have established our position worldwide in the VR games area, developing such titles like Layers of Fear VR, Blair Witch VR and Green Hell VR. With over 10 years of experience in making games and being engaged in the VR technology since 2019, Incuvo is aiming to expand the genre even further and become one of the key developers of the growing VR market worldwide. We want to combine our expertise with the creativity and skills of ambitious professionals to work on the new generation of VR titles. Our team is currently working on Bulletstorm VR - an exciting VR version of the game from People Can Fly studio’s portfolio and on further expansion of Green Hell VR.

The majority stakeholder of the studio is PCF Group S.A. (People Can Fly), a global independent AAA games developer and a Warsaw Stock Exchange public company. Founded in 2002, People Can Fly made its mark on the action-shooter genre, developing titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and its most recent game, Outriders. PCF is one of the leading Unreal Engine studios in the industry and operates in Poland, UK, US and Canada.

Job Description

Core

Propose, implement and own tasks and features in a timely fashion.
Provide regular updates to the production.
Consider the performance of the work that you do.
Breakdown your own tasks, update your progress, ask questions and raise issues to relevant stakeholders as well as proposing solutions when needed.
Work closely with Principal and project Architect to implement high quality features and code, proactively identify and address risk with the team.
Proactively participate in code reviews to share knowledge and learn from other team members.
Occasionally support Lead in recruitment projects with HR collaboration.
Stay informed of best practices and technical solutions used at the company.
Work with QA teams to define testing requirements for new and existing features.

Work across multiple disciplines on the behaviors of a large variety of non-player characters.
Work closely with the design team and iterate with them game features gathering feedback from iterations.
Create dedicated tools and features.
Test, debug, profile and optimize implementations.
Design, implement into engine and maintain new AI features.
Track work in production systems.

Qualifications

3+ years experience working in console / PC / VR / Mobile games
Involved in the production cycle of at least 1 title
Proven record of delivering shooting AI feature set
Excellent primary programming language skills (C#).
Good knowledge of Source Control and Code Review tools in Git environment
Good knowledge of Project Management Software (JIRA, Confluence, etc.).
Ability to work autonomously.
Strong math background (3d math, matrices, linear algebra).
Understanding of physics and classical mechanics.
Good understanding of usual algorithms and techniques used by AI teams in games.
Experience with performance measurement and optimization.
Experience in programming different gamedev AI topics like movement, navigation or decision-making logic.
Ability to write solid, reliable, efficient code.
“Game designer” like creativity to help solve gameplay problems.
Experience with multi-threading.
Good Unity Engine knowledge.
Good mentoring skills.
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.