Outscal Logooutscal logo

Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Gameplay Engineer)

7 Hours ago • 3-3 Years • Artificial Intelligence • $98,250 PA - $143,250 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Gameplay Engineer) at Inworld, you'll collaborate with partners to develop and launch AI-driven video games and interactive experiences. You will define product requirements, solve technical challenges, and work closely with C-level executives. Responsibilities include ensuring partner project success, solving technical challenges related to AI character interactions, translating partner feedback into product requirements, developing next-generation immersive experiences, and working with product and partnership teams. This role requires strong problem-solving skills and experience working with strategic partners.
Must have:
  • 3+ years Unity/Unreal Engine exp.
  • 3+ years game dev experience
  • LLM prompt engineering
  • Product intuition & problem-solving
  • Work with strategic partners
Good to have:
  • AI programming
  • Low-level networking
  • Audio experience
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

view open roles

Why Join Inworld

Inworld is the leading provider of AI technology for real-time interactive experiences, with a $500 million valuation and backing from top tier investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12 fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Section 32, BITKRAFT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, and First Spark Ventures.

Inworld provides the market’s best framework for building production ready interactive experiences, coupled with dedicated services to optimize specific stages of development – from design and development, to ML pipeline optimization and custom compute infrastructure. We help developers bring their AI engines in-house with a framework optimized for real-time data ingestion, low latency, and massive scale. Inworld powers experiences built by Ubisoft, NVIDIA, Niantic, NetEase Games and LG, among others, and has partnerships with key industry players such as Microsoft Xbox, Epic Games, and Unity. 

Inworld was recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies in the world in 2024 and was named among LinkedIn's Top Startups of 2024 in the USA.

Your Impact

Help shape the future of AI by developing and executing on the vision for AI-driven video games and interactive experiences. In this unique role as a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Gameplay Engineer), you will work closely with high profile partners to define, deploy and launch groundbreaking immersive experiences.

This is an opportunity to build 0 to 1 product experiences at the intersection of many of today’s most transformative technologies. Work alongside top AI/ML engineering and product leaders to define requirements, collaborate with partners, solve technical challenges and launch our products. 

Requirements

  • BA/BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or Game Development.
  • 3+ years of Unity and/or Unreal Engine development experience.
  • 3+ years of technical experience as a game developer.
  • Exceptional product intuition, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
  • Experience working with strategic partners and presenting to executives.
  • Passionate about learning and applying cutting edge AI research.
  • Understanding and experience with LLM prompt engineering.
  • Hacker mindset and ability to think outside the box.
  • Experience in programming AI, low-level networking, and audio is a big plus.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with our Product + Partnerships teams to ensure that critical partner projects are successful.
  • Solve deeply technical challenges related to AI character interactions and behaviors.
  • Work closely with C-level executives and industry leaders to understand business and product needs and translate them into clear product requirements for our platform and characters.
  • Translate partners’ feedback and requests into product requirements and roadmap, driving prioritization and pre- and post-launch execution.
  • Develop vision and prototype/pilot versions of next generation immersive experiences.

In-office location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Remote location: British Columbia, Canada.

The Canada base salary range for this full-time position is between C$130,000 - C$190,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

Similar Jobs

Pariah Interactive - Game Developer (India)

Pariah Interactive

India (Remote)
6 Months ago
Tesla - Senior Cell Mechanical Design Engineer

Tesla

Brandenburg, Germany (On-Site)
1 Month ago
SYBO - QA Intern - Central Technology

SYBO

Copenhagen, Denmark (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Rockstar Games - Animation Systems Programmer

Rockstar Games

New York, New York, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Lightheart Entertainment - Video Capture Trainee

Lightheart Entertainment

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland (Hybrid)
1 Week ago
VGW - Machine Learning Engineer

VGW

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
AI Fund - Curriculum Product Manager

AI Fund

United States (Remote)
5 Months ago
Level AI - Principal Software Engineer

Level AI

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
PwC - Manager_Conversational AI Developer_Advisory Corporate_Advisory_Bangalore

PwC

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
5 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Moon Active - Technical Artist

Moon Active

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel (Hybrid)
1 Week ago
Riot Games - Technical Artist II - League of Legends, Seasons (Contract)

Riot Games

Singapore (On-Site)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - AR Optics Architect - Pico- San Jose

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Riot Games - Principal Software Engineer, Gameplay - Teamfight Tactics

Riot Games

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
4 Months ago
NVIDIA - Senior Solutions Architect, HPC

NVIDIA

Illinois, United States (Remote)
2 Months ago
Tencent - Senior Researcher: Artificial General Intelligence (Natural Language Processing)

Tencent

Bellevue, Washington, United States (On-Site)
7 Months ago
Owlcat Games - UI Engineer

Owlcat Games

Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
ByteDance - Machine Learning Research Scientist, AI for Science

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Jam City - Software Engineer Lead

Jam City

Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay (On-Site)
8 Months ago
Playtika - R&D Team Leader

Playtika

Romania (Hybrid)
4 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Epic Games - Animation Lead

Epic Games

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Ubisoft - Analyste de la sécurité - Résilience organisationnelle

Ubisoft

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Company3 Method Studios - Facility Technician (7:00am - 3:30pm PT)

Company3 Method Studios

Canada (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Evolution - Card Shuffler - Customer Service No experience required

Evolution

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Amber - Localization Quality Assurance with French

Amber

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Hybrid)
6 Months ago
Scanline VFX - Développeur Pipeline Senior (Maya)/ Senior Pipeline Developer (Maya)

Scanline VFX

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Snowed In Studios - Senior Producer

Snowed In Studios

Ontario, Canada (Remote)
1 Week ago
Scanline VFX - Artiste CFX/ CFX Artist

Scanline VFX

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (On-Site)
7 Months ago
ZeniMax Media - Animateur.trice senior (facial.e) / Senior Animator (Faces)

ZeniMax Media

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (On-Site)
6 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Artificial Intelligence Jobs

Meta - Research Scientist, Machine Learning (PhD)

Meta

Sunnyvale, California, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Match Group - Sr. Software Engineer, Generative AI

Match Group

Palo Alto, California, United States (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
Tencent - Large Language Model Algorithm Engineer

Tencent

California, United States (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
ByteDance - Research Scientist in Foundation Model (Speech & Audio Generation) - 2025 Start (PhD)

ByteDance

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
ASSIST Software - Other Positions

ASSIST Software

Suceava, Suceava County, Romania (Remote)
4 Months ago
Zoox - Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Zoox

Foster City, California, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Airlab Inc  - Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Airlab Inc

Quebec, Canada (On-Site)
11 Hours ago
NVIDIA - AI Algorithms Software Engineer (RDSS Intern)

NVIDIA

Taipei City, Taiwan (On-Site)
1 Month ago
SiftHub - Senior NLP Engineer

SiftHub

Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
6 Months ago
NVIDIA - Senior Solutions Architect, Retail

NVIDIA

(Remote)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Inworld powers AI-driven gameplay for video games and immersive experiences. 


Whether you’re looking to unlock novel gameplay, create content at scale, improve player immersion, or future proof your AI infrastructure, Inworld helps uplevel your game development with AI.


Inworld has worked with Xbox, Ubisoft, NVIDIA, NetEase Games, Niantic, LG UPlus, Alpine Electronics, and indie game developers to create AI-driven experiences. We’re backed by top-tier investors including Section 32, Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12 fund, BITKRAFT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund,and First Spark Ventures. 


The Inworld product suite includes: 


Inworld Engine powers real-time experiences with groundbreaking game mechanics, dynamic NPCs, and worlds that evolve with each action. AI NPCs can learn and adapt, deliver nuanced performances, perceive the world around them, and autonomously initiate actions based on players' decisions. 


Inworld Studio consists of a suite of tools that enhance game design. Using AI to streamline workflows, the Studio enables developers to workshop, draft, and outline storylines, narratives, dialogue, quests, and more.  


Inworld Core is our custom solution for future-proof AI infrastructure, including custom models, training, serving and security.

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (On-Site)

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)

British Columbia, Canada (On-Site)

Mountain View, California, United States (Hybrid)

Mountain View, California, United States (Remote)

Mountain View, California, United States (Remote)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Remote)

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Inworld AI

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug