Senior Creative Technologist, Games GenAI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Develop and refine playable game prototypes utilizing GenAI-enhanced workflows

• Create and prototype systems that integrate generative AI APIs with DCC tools and engine-side frameworks, including Unreal Python API, Editor Utility Widgets, and Unity

• Offer hands-on creative direction regarding visual aesthetics, mood, narrative voice, sound, music guidance, and overall game atmosphere

• Convert creative vision into technical game design, requirements, systems, and documentation

• Collaborate with the Games GenAI team to discover valuable GenAI tools and pipelines

• Provide creative feedback to external development partners and internal project leaders during the prototyping and proof-of-concept stages

• Conduct workshops, demonstrations, and office hours focused on GenAI creative tools

• Keep up-to-date with GenAI tools for narrative/dialogue generation, procedural level design, voice/audio synthesis, and image/video style transfer

• Collaborate on early-stage prototypes with external partners, in-production games, and internal experiments

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a game director, lead designer, or in a similarly senior creative role, with shipped game(s) where you significantly influenced creative direction (visual style, narrative voice, sound, or overall execution)

• Proficiency in building rapid prototypes using coding tools, engine scripting, or no-code/low-code platforms

• Practical experience utilizing GenAI models and technologies to craft new gaming experiences

• Demonstrated ability to discern what is engaging early on and enhance prototypes or products through direct creative judgment

• Experience in directing across visual, narrative, and audio disciplines and integrating them into a cohesive creative vision under time constraints

• Comfort in providing direct and specific creative feedback to internal teams and external development partners

• Exceptional communication skills for effective cross-functional collaboration with engineers, artists, and producers

• Experience working with external/third-party studios as a creative partner or reviewer (preferred)

• Familiarity with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code/Cowork (preferred)

• Ability to quickly generate directional prototypes and previz using Maya, Twine, Unity/Unreal, Figma, or Miro (preferred)

• Experience in sound/music direction (preferred)

• Background in rapid, small-form game prototyping (preferred)

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Plans

• Mental Health support

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match

• Stock Option Program

• Disability Programs

• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

• Family-forming benefits

• Life and Serious Injury Benefits

• Paid leave of absence programs

• Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off

• Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off