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 Apply tot his job Apply To this Job