Insomniac Games

Game Engineer

• Insomniac is looking for a Senior Gameplay AI Programmer. In this role you'll collaborate closely with our content teams as we design, implement and maintain industry leading enemy and ally gameplay experiences. A Senior Gameplay Programmer anticipates design needs and player expectations and leverages their experience to provide feedback on code quality, user experience, and performance throughout the course of development. We value ownership, technical expertise, initiative, and effective communication.
• At Insomniac, we've embraced a digital-first culture, and support in-office, remote and hybrid working arrangements. We're passionate about creating robust, scalable systems for AAA games and delivering outstanding new player experiences while fostering employee well-being!
• Essential duties and responsibilities include the following:
• Collaborate across teams to drive player experience and feature quality with a focus on AI<Player interactions
• Act as a subject matter expert for our AI team, providing mentorship/assistance to more junior staff through code reviews and participation in our AI special interest group
• Create features and systems that can work flexibly and dynamically across diverse environments and situations
• Architect and implement systems that are as simple as possible without compromising scalability and extensibility
• Accurately estimate assigned work, contribute to efforts to ensure work is in scope, and proactively update team on task status
• Understand complex existing systems and how they interact. Expand or create new systems as needed to deliver on the promise of our features
• Work across teams to understand how our internal customers use the tools and systems that we develop to deliver great gameplay experiences
• Drive new feature and architecture development within AI Systems

Senior Gameplay Programmer, AI

Project Manager

• Build, lead, and mentor a world-class Project Management Department to achieve Insomniac's vision of Best Developer
• Ensure excellent on time in budget deliveries through strategic planning, team leadership, and collaboration with Studio Leaders, Project Leaders, and Project Managers
• Create, enforce, and modify macro development schedules in conjunction with Project Directors and Project Managers
• Anticipate schedule and budget overruns and initiate actions to resolve them
• Play games in development to ensure operational goals and quality standards are being met
• Provide budgeting for the Project Management department in conjunction with Finance
• Evaluate and implement staffing strategies to meet project needs
• Direct the professional development of all project management employees
• Advocate for studio cultural values and foster an environment of craft excellence, collaboration, and inclusion
• Develop strategies to improve studio efficiency and quality
• Develop collaborative relationships across all departments and ensure organizational cohesiveness toward project objectives
• Ensure that all complaints and concerns related to inappropriate or unprofessional conduct in the workplace are addressed immediately
• Supervise Project Managers and carry out full supervisory responsibilities according to policies and laws

Director, Project Management

• CONTRACT ROLE
• Lead and coordinate with vision holders to set Cinematic team goals, ensuring successful documentation, tracking, and implementation of cinematics across the game.
• Manage schedules, facilitate communication, and solve challenges within the development process to deliver cohesive gaming experience.
• Build, modify, and maintain schedules for assigned Pods in partnership with Pod Leads.
• Partner with Track and Pod Leads in the creation of milestone goals deliverables
• Anticipate and solve problems independently and collaboratively to ensure smooth production
• Break down large complex production expectations into smaller actionable deliveries
• Guide stakeholder reviews and feedback process with Pod Leads
• Communicates update to the development team about project changes and progress.
• Facilitate cross-discipline communication and unblock team members from task dependencies
• Maintain awareness of Pod content status through regular play sessions

Project Manager, Cinematics

• Creates animation content at a consistently expert quality level delivered on schedule and meeting performance targets.\n• Works with Animation Directors and Lead Animators to establish animation style and with the gameplay animation team to maintain a cohesive animation style for the game, providing constructive feedback as needed.\n• Mentors, tutors, and aids others based on documented workflows.\n• Ensures Designers and Programmers understand the creative direction and identifies required animation assets for characters and scenes through clear cross-department communication.\n• Provides support for both independent and embedded Co-Dev resources and organizes work for Ex-Dev resources including creating briefs and reviewing and integrating deliveries.\n• Experiments with and evaluates techniques to improve efficiency, workflow, and visual fidelity in our animation pipeline.\n• Assists in establishing and maintaining performance targets and collaborates with other departments to ensure animation is implemented appropriately in the game engine.\n• Assists with creating documentation in Confluence, or equivalent.\n• Assists with tasking in JIRA, or equivalent.\n• Effectively communicates with the Animation Director and Project Management to report progress and ensure timely completion of deliverables.\n• Other duties may be assigned

Senior Gameplay Programmer, AI

Director, Project Management

Project Manager, Cinematics

Senior Gameplay Animator