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Senior AI Programmer

About Splash Damage

Come join us!

We founded Splash Damage with a mission to create lifelong friendships for our players and our employees by building the world’s most engaging multiplayer experiences with world-leading partners. Our teams have just celebrated the launch of Gears Tactics and we’re currently working on several exciting unannounced titles.

Our people always come first, and we acted swiftly to ensure that we moved all our employees to a work from home model during the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK, and this will continue for the foreseeable future. With our first-class virtual onboarding programme, we’re able to get you up and running from your home during this time and we’re maintaining our relaxed and welcoming culture with digital social events, daily company communications and much more. We will continue to monitor the situation in line with government advice, but we will expect you to come and work with us in our friendly studio in Bromley as and when it’s safe to do so.

We're advocates for work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements to suit individual needs and a comprehensive benefits package which focuses on family and mental well-being. Together with this we’ve been running a formal Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme for nearly two years and are committed to increasing diversity across our studio.

The Role

At Splash Damage, we create multiplayer combat games that champion team play and promote lifelong friendships. Members of the Gameplay programming team are responsible for implementing new and exciting gameplay features within a multiplayer environment. We work closely with other disciplines to help them realise their ideas through rapid prototyping and iterative agile development.

As a Senior AI Programmer you will use your knowledge and experience to own the technical design and implementation of large scale game features. Through mentoring and championing of best practises and company values you will provide day-to-day support for more junior members of the team whilst effectively managing your own time and workload through delegation. You will help drive the project forward by working with your discipline lead to plan and maintain roadmaps and improve processes.

We believe that constantly improving your skills is an essential part of the job and we offer regular leadership, management and mentoring training programmes.

You excel at:

• Working collaboratively with members of multiple disciplines to iteratively develop features that address and achieve the high-level goals of the game.
• Identifying and championing best practises and processes within your domain
• Employing a can-do attitude to solve difficult problems as part of an agile, fast-moving and highly-focused team.
• Writing clear, maintainable and portable code.
• Communicating ideas, intent and constraints to both technical and non-technical team members.

You have:

• Strong practical knowledge of C++, with relevant professional experience.
• Strong understanding of game-development related 3D maths principles.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to self-organise.
• Professional experience iteratively implementing AI features from inception to delivery.
• Experience working in all phases of game development, from feature design and implementation to bug-fixing.
• A strong understanding of AI behavioural & navigational techniques used in modern games.
• A strong interest in researching and implementing new AI related technologies.

Even better if you have:

• Professional development experience with real-time networked multiplayer games.
• Professional Unreal Engine 4 development experience.
• Experience developing for Xbox One and/or PS4.
• Experience profiling and optimising code for optimal CPU, memory and bandwidth usage.
• Experience in animation programming.

Studio Culture

Splash Damage offers a fun, friendly and relaxed working environment. Everyone here shares a passion for video games and that shows in daily office life. We get together regularly for a wide range of social events, enjoying pub quizzes, cinema trips and gaming nights, competing in our plethora of sports and game groups, and letting our hair down at our legendary company parties, karaoke and our weekly Friday get together s for in-house drinks, games and more.

Find out more on our Studio page .