Aardvark Swift is supporting Rebellion in their search for a Senior AI Systems Engineer to join their Core Tech Team working to develop a mixture of exciting unannounced projects.
The Rebellion Tech team is a team of highly skilled and experienced programmers who develop their in-house engine, Asura with cutting edge technology. This is an exciting opportunity for you to work with a small team developing and maintaining new and existing current AI and Entity systems on their bespoke in-house engine that the project teams will utilise to make their games.
Your responsibilities…
Collaberate the Technical Director with planning and review of features and mentoring less experienced programmers
Implement solutions to feature requests, considering performance, maintainability, and appropriate resource usage
Ensure coding standards are followed by participating in regular code reviews
Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyse technical constraints and establish solutions
Integrate modules or components while minimising the impact on projects
Establish and maintain contact with counterparts across all projects, share knowledge and best practices, and put learnings and findings to use
Involved in the optimisation of systems
The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role…
Professional experience in a related role in games development on multiple published games
Excellent C/C++ programming skills, with superb knowledge of object-oriented development
Good knowledge and experience with existing and modern AI technologies such as pathfinding, behaviour trees, and character controllers
Experience working with a large game codebase, its modules, and middleware
Comprehension of software performance considerations, with the ability to design and implement well performance systems
Knowledge of common algorithms, data structures and patterns, and their application
Ability to analyse unfamiliar code of a reasonable complexity to understand, extend, refactor, and optimise an existing module
Previous experience mentoring junior coders
Perks and benefits includes...
Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and vision
Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
Enhanced Family Leave
Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
Enhanced Pension Scheme
EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events
For 30 years Rebellion have been creating incredible video games at their multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. They have their own film and mo-cap studio, they create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.
Rebellion they are proud of their open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. They love what they do, and they have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, they have complete creative freedom over their titles which allows them to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.
