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Job DescriptionCD PROJEKT RED is looking for an ML Technical Lead to lead across multiple multidisciplinary teams working on practical ML applications for game development. The role focuses on helping teams improve Unreal Engine workflows, production pipelines, and developer productivity for CD PROJEKT RED’s development cycles. This role is ideal for a GameDev technology leader who enjoys developing people, shaping technical direction, and connecting emerging ML capabilities with real value for game creators.
The teams operate with dedicated production support and strong technical ownership. Producers are responsible for production coordination, discovery, planning, delivery tracking, dependencies, and day-to-day organizational flow. Engineers and researchers are expected to own key technical decisions within their areas. This role provides technical leadership at the level of direction, standards, alignment, coaching, trade-offs, and cross-team impact - not micromanagement or day-to-day production management.
Responsibilities
Game Development Technical Leadership
Lead the technical direction for ML-driven tools and systems that support the development of CD PROJEKT RED games, with a focus on Unreal Engine workflows, production pipelines, developer productivity, and improving game subsystems.Machine Learning Understanding & Curiosity
Work with ML engineers and researchers to uphold the team’s technical depth and quality of decision-making, while building a strong shared understanding of how machine learning and game development can meaningfully complement each other. Help the team identify where ML can create practical value for development workflows, internal tooling, and ultimately support game teams in delivering higher quality games.People Management
Manage and develop engineers and researchers, create clarity, support growth, and help the team deliver meaningful impact.
Game Development Technical Leadership
- 10 years of experience in AAA game development, game technology, technical direction, engineering leadership or senior technical production.
- Strong practical understanding of Unreal Engine, game production workflows, tools, pipelines, performance and technical constraints of building complex games.
- Ability to provide technical direction for ML-driven GameDev initiatives, ensuring they translate into practical improvements in how CD PROJEKT RED games are built, iterated on, and experienced by players.
- Credibility with senior engineers and researchers; able to ask the right technical questions, challenge assumptions and guide pragmatic decisions.
Machine Learning Understanding & Curiosity
- Basic understanding of machine learning / AI concepts, with willingness to deepen knowledge in the context of game development.
- Ability to work with ML engineers and researchers without needing to be a deep ML expert.
- Good judgment on when ML is the right solution versus when a problem is better solved through classical engineering, tooling, automation or process change.
People Management
- Experience managing or leading highly technical people, including engineers, researchers, technical specialists or cross-functional technology teams.
- Ability to support individual growth through clear expectations, feedback, coaching, prioritization and regular 1:1s.
- Strong communication skills and ability to connect engineering, research, production, QA and game development stakeholders around shared goals.
Nice to Have
- Experience with ML applications in game development, QA automation, agentic workflows, content validation, synthetic data or developer productivity tools.
- Background in engine/tools teams, rendering, performance, technical art pipelines or production technology.
- Experience leading international, distributed or cross-disciplinary teams combining engineering, research and production.
Working mode
- In-office in a hybrid or full-time capacity in Warsaw, Poland. Relocation is required.
Health & Well-Being
- Private medical healthcare — a selection of medical plans with dental care and unlimited rehabilitation to choose from, which are also accessible for your partner and relatives.
- Life insurance — comprehensive pension and insurance plans to protect you and your loved ones.
- Annual screenings for cancer prevention covered by the company.
- Psychological and psychiatrist care — free mental health support and various well-being initiatives.
- Sports card — gain access to a wide number of sporting and fitness facilities across the city.
- Menstrual leave — employees who menstruate can take one extra day off when experiencing period pain.
- RED Parents Network — support for working parents, including childcare benefits, and family-friendly events.
- RED Summer Camp for Kids — a fun summer program for children aged 5–12, majoritively paid by the company.
Perks & Professional Growth
- A welcome pack filled with goodies — to help you feel right at home once you join the team.
- Trainings, lectures, and courses — workshops and trainings for each employee, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available. There’s always something to learn!
- REDs have access to the cafeteria platform through which they can receive subscription benefits, additional medical packages or vouchers and codes to shops, cinemas, and public transport reimbursement.
- Gifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!
Social Activities & Life in the Office
- Dog-friendly office — dog owner? Bring your pooch with you and look after them while working! There’s always a furry friend or two to meet at the studio.
- Social events — we host regular gatherings at the studio where we can all unwind, play games, and just have some fun together.
- Healthy selections — canteens.
- Truly international working environment — a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world.
- Sustainability is an ongoing commitment for us, and our campus has electric car charging points, green zones, and much more. Read all about it on our Beyond the Game Blog.
- A designated space for your bicycle, as well as bicycle repair equipment and showers available whenever you need them.
- An onsite, well-equipped gym with a climbing wall, daily Gym Assistant support, and yoga and boxing classes.
- No dress-code — we like to keep it casual.
Estimated pay range for this position: 45 800 - 62 900 PLN gross monthly.
Final offers are dependent on job-related factors like experience and qualifications.
Type of contract: Employment Contract ("Umowa o pracę").
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Skills Required
- 10 years of experience in AAA game development, game technology, technical direction, engineering leadership, or senior technical production
- Strong practical understanding of Unreal Engine, game production workflows, tools, pipelines, performance, and technical constraints
- Ability to provide technical direction for machine-learning-driven game development initiatives
- Credibility with senior engineers and researchers, including the ability to guide pragmatic technical decisions
- Basic understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts
- Ability to collaborate effectively with ML engineers and researchers without being a deep ML expert
- Ability to judge when ML is appropriate versus classical engineering, tooling, automation, or process changes
- Experience managing or leading highly technical employees, including engineers, researchers, technical specialists, or cross-functional technology teams
- Ability to support individual growth through expectations, feedback, coaching, prioritization, and regular one-on-ones
- Strong communication skills and ability to align engineering, research, production, QA, and game development stakeholders
- Experience with ML applications in game development, QA automation, agentic workflows, content validation, synthetic data, or developer productivity tools
- Background in engine or tools teams, rendering, performance, technical art pipelines, or production technology
- Experience leading international, distributed, or cross-disciplinary teams combining engineering, research, and production
- Relocation to Warsaw, Poland, and willingness to work hybrid or full-time in-office
What We Do
CD PROJEKT RED is home to over 900 game-making professionals from all over the globe. We speak many different languages, but share one love — video games. The studio’s portfolio largely comprises The Witcher series of role-playing games, including 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which received over 250 Game of the Year awards. In 2020, the studio released its most recent game: Cyberpunk 2077 — a first-person RPG set in a futuristic, high-tech world. Other notable releases include Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, and GWENT: The Witcher Card Game — in which players create decks of witcher-world warriors and fight epic card battles with other people around the globe. Headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, CD PROJEKT RED has offices in Kraków and Wrocław, as well as in Los Angeles and Vancouver. The studio is part of the larger CD PROJEKT S.A. Capital Group, which also includes Spokko, a mobile-focused developer responsible for The Witcher: Monster Slayer, and The Molasses Flood, a development studio in Boston, which is currently working on a game based on one of CD PROJEKT RED’s IPs. As the company grows, the overall studio mission remains the same: we strive to create the best RPGs in the world, while always keeping gamers’ needs at the core.
