Daybreak Games is now hiring for a Senior Artificial Intelligence Programmer at our Austin Studio.
Work in a fun and funky studio with a bat-cave theater for special events. Collaborate with engaging and talented game programmers. We offer very flexibility office hours and let our employees get their work done as they see fit with their fellow team mates.
We believe in work/life balance and know family and personal time is critical to achieving successful, creative work efforts when "on the clock".
Our game developers say they enjoy working at Daybreak Games because they feel valued and like that we have proven games with excellent revenue streams which provides a great feeling of security; and we have a HUGE community of avid fans.
The Austin studio is home to DC Universe Online - a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based upon the fictional universe of DC Comics. Players can be hero or villain as they navigate a war-torn future in Metropolis against or alongside epic DC Comic characters.
The hired Sr. AI Game Programmer will work with a team of highly motivated and talented programmers, artists, and designers in Austin Texas. The AI Programmer will create action-packed, physics based, highly interactive games.
The team needs an additional Game Programmer to fill a senior and integral role in the design and implementation of these Artificial Intelligence (AI) game systems and features, both in terms of individual character behavior as well as higher level logic to control the coordination of multiple game entities and game systems. This role will have primary responsibility for all AI systems used in both server and client sides, and will have a significant role in how we utilize, advance, and expand those systems in an upcoming, brand new, yet unannounced title that will be developed in the Austin studio.
You need to have:
- A passion for writing solid, reliable, efficient code and highly scalable systems
- Ability to design, create, optimize, and maintain cross-platform systems
- Ability to work efficiently and independently on components and then collaboratively when it’s time to bring the pieces of the teams efforts together
- Work well with deadlines and can handle multiple tasks
Seeking a seasoned programmer that knows how to appropriately use advanced and sophisticated methods of artificial intelligence within the budgets and constraints of a real time game simulation, to create believable and (most importantly) FUN, computer controlled characters and game play experiences.