Senior Technical Designer - Frontiers Team - AI and Gameplay Systems

About The Frontiers Team

The Frontiers Team operates as a forward-deployed, revenue-positive squad of senior engineers and designers embedded within top-tier or innovation-driven customers. Their mission: to co-develop features, tackle novel use cases, and harden our platform through real-world deployments. This team surfaces product innovations, accelerates integrations, and helps transform bespoke solutions into scalable, reusable assets.

Responsibilities

• Experiment with emerging AI and gameplay technologies to craft innovative, experience-centric designs.
• Design, prototype, and implement gameplay systems and behaviors using industry-standard scripting and visual programming tools such as Unreal Blueprints.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and customers to bridge design goals with technical implementation.
• Architect and extend core systems including 3Cs, inventory, interaction, and UI.
• Mentor peers and support customers across a wide range of technical skill levels.
• Maintain clean, extensible, and self-documenting implementations.

Skills

• Expertise in current NPC behavioural AI approaches such as Utility AI & GOAP and strong applied skills in Behaviour Trees, State Trees, and similar technologies.
• Genre-diverse experience to identify common requirements for shared systems development.
• Familiarity with fundamental game engine architecture and debugging tools, including world and entity lifecycles.
• Solid grasp of object-oriented principles (inheritance, interfaces, composition).
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale, extensible systems to AAA quality.
• Hands-on experience with multiple engines such as Unreal, Unity, or proprietary.
• Experimental mindset, applying technology to create memorable player experiences.
• Practical understanding of game networking principles, specifically Unreal’s authority/owner model.
• Collaborative: partners effectively with engineers, designers, artists, and customers.

Behaviours

• Customer-focused: adapts designs and systems to meet diverse technical capabilities.
• Leadership-minded: mentors others and fosters a culture of shared learning.
• Adaptable: thrives while balancing multiple projects in fast-paced environments.
• Innovative: eager to experiment with new tools, technologies, and design approaches.
• Quality-driven: takes pride in maintainable systems and robust implementation.
• Shape the future of AI-powered gameplay with ex-DeepMind scientists, engineers, and award-winning game developers.

Why Join Artificial.Agency

• Enjoy a flexible work model with options for onsite, hybrid, or remote work, alongside competitive compensation.
• Join a team that values experimentation, creative risk-taking, and building ambitious, unforgettable experiences.
• Help define how intelligent characters and systems behave, learn, and play.