Game AI Designer – Decision-Making Systems

Job Description:

• Develop a deep understanding of the simulation’s features, constraints, and emergent dynamics
• Research military doctrine and commander intent to understand the expectations for how entities should behave under a broad range of circumstances
• Conceptualize and design AI behavior models using HTNs, GOAP, state machines, and related decision frameworks that can express a wide range of intended outcomes and behaviors
• Define the structure, abstractions, and constraints of the entity “brain,” in close collaboration with engineering
• Translate high-level intent (doctrine, rules, roles, objectives) into concrete, inspectable, and configurable decision logic
• Design and author entity behavior using a visual scripting editor
• Design behavior systems that support variation, parameterization, and reuse, rather than hard-coded outcomes
• Participate in iteration cycles to refine behaviors based on simulation outcomes, user feedback, and observed emergent behavior

Requirements:

• 3 – 5 years’ experience designing game-based AI/decision-making systems using HTNs, GOAP, state machines, or comparable frameworks
• Proven ability to conceptualize AI behavior models that express a wide range of intended outcomes, constraints, and variations
• Strong systems-thinking skills, with the ability to reason about complex decision spaces, tradeoffs, and emergent behavior
• Experience partnering closely with engineers to design and evolve runtime AI systems, including defining abstractions, constraints, and interfaces
• Sufficient experience writing code so that you can read, understand, and contribute to behavior-related code, prototypes, or tools in collaboration with engineering
• Ability to clearly articulate design intent, assumptions, and limitations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Due to federal contract requirements, U.S. Citizenship is mandatory for this position.
• Active or prior U.S. security clearance (or eligibility to obtain one)
• Background in military operations and warfighting concepts – either through prior service or sustained personal interest

Benefits:

• Offers Equity

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