Onebrief

Game AI Designer – Decision-Making Systems

Onebrief

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $180,000 - $220,000 per year

About the role

  • 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
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Hard skills
AI behavior modelsHTNsGOAPstate machinesdecision frameworksvisual scripting editorruntime AI systemsbehavior-related codeprototypestools
Soft skills
systems-thinkingreasoning about complex decision spacesarticulating design intentcollaboration with engineersuser feedback incorporationiteration cyclesconceptualizationcommunication with stakeholdersunderstanding constraintstradeoffs
Certifications
U.S. CitizenshipU.S. security clearance