Top Game Developer Jobs

Own the implementation, hardening, and polish of game AI behaviors and systems for shipping. Collaborate with design, animation, and other disciplines to tune AI features and support the creative vision. Ensure reliable, stable enemy behaviors and enhance existing architecture. The role requires deep Unreal Engine and modern game AI experience, strong C++ skills, animation systems knowledge, and at least one shipped game title focused primarily on AI.

Owns the implementation, hardening, tuning, and polish of game AI behaviors and systems for shipping quality. Collaborates with design, animation, and other disciplines to create believable enemy behavior and strong player experiences. The role requires expertise in Unreal Engine, modern game AI architecture, animation systems, and C++, along with experience shipping at least one game focused primarily on AI, preferably a AAA action or FPS title.

Distinguished Engineer responsible for defining Nike’s long-term technology strategy across global consumer, marketplace, commerce, and digital experience platforms. The role leads large-scale architecture, cloud modernization, AI and agentic commerce adoption, engineering productivity, reliability, scalability, security, observability, and FinOps initiatives. This senior technical authority influences multiple organizations, advises executives, mentors technical leaders, and drives innovation across Nike App, SNKRS, Nike.com, personalization, partner experiences, and data and AI platforms.

Develop and ship gameplay features, UI, and systems for the open-source Threadbare game using an existing codebase. Responsibilities include debugging, performance and stability improvements, testing, code reviews, planning, tooling, documentation, and collaboration with design and art. The role also involves reviewing learner code, providing written mentorship, supporting educational tooling, and participating in occasional community events.

Build AI-augmented gameplay and interactive storytelling systems using generative AI. Integrate LLMs and diffusion models with game engines, behavior trees, narrative systems, and world-building tools. Develop guardrails for safe, balanced, on-theme content; create tools that accelerate prototyping and playtesting; and troubleshoot AI interactions with deterministic game logic. Partner closely with designers to deliver fun, high-quality player experiences with low-latency performance.

Build and maintain production-quality gameplay systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Provide technical guidance on simulation and networking, and collaborate with designers, artists, content creators, and engine teams to develop game-building systems and tools for an unannounced PlayStation project from pre-production through release.

Develop slot-style game mathematical models using probability, C#, and prize-first game engines. Translate game concepts into software, maintain game metrics and PAR sheets, analyze North American slot-market trends, and collaborate with game designers to create engaging player experiences. The role requires strong organization, adaptability, and willingness to work occasional overtime or weekends, with limited travel.

Build and operate analytics pipelines, data models, data marts, and quality systems for mobile free-to-play game telemetry. Maintain and optimize BigQuery transformation layers, migrate Airflow pipelines to a partner-managed ETL platform, define tracking plans and data contracts, and develop observability capabilities. Partner with studios and analysts to support retention, monetization, and engagement reporting while applying production engineering, documentation, and collaboration practices.

Leads the architecture and development of CatFace’s Minecraft mod ecosystem using Java and NeoForge, while applying AI-assisted development practices. Translates creative needs into technical plans, leads the Technical Production Assistant team, evaluates tools and emerging technologies, and ensures reliable systems for content production. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, troubleshooting before recording, and onsite work in Austin, Texas.

Design and develop high-performance world and scene representation systems for autonomy simulation. Build spatial data structures, mapping and geometry pipelines, coordinate systems, occupancy representations, and real-time 4D object management. Optimize C++20 code for low latency, cache efficiency, and memory usage while integrating systems across air, ground, and maritime autonomy stacks. Use Python and shell scripting for tooling and automation, and contribute to architecture and API design.

Develop and maintain engine-level systems, game modding tools, and editor extensions. Implement and optimize rendering pipelines and shaders using DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL/Metal. Profile and optimize CPU/GPU/memory and multithreaded workloads, debug complex graphics issues, and collaborate with engineers, artists, and designers to deliver high-quality, maintainable C++ engine code.

Develop and implement mobile games using Unity for iOS and Android. Collaborate with teams on gameplay features and optimization, ensuring quality code and user experience.

Lead and execute cross-team initiatives to improve developer experience: build production AI integrations and developer tools, define build/release standards, eliminate CI/source-control bottlenecks, and drive technical strategy and operational excellence across Riot.

Develop and integrate Unreal Engine-based realtime 3D simulation features, bridge the core simulation engine with Unreal, utilize Cesium for large-scale environments, customize plugins and content ingestion, deploy engines on local and cloud platforms, and optimize simulation performance and accuracy.

As a Senior Software Engineer for Game Systems, you will develop and optimize game engine features across multiple platforms, focusing on performance, code quality, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Architect, build, and operate ML inference and deployment infrastructure (model serving, orchestration, CI/CD, feature stores). Improve developer experience, optimize GPU/CPU scheduling and performance, and establish ML deployment best practices across Riot’s production ML ecosystem while shaping long-term platform direction.

Build end-to-end live streaming and game features across frontend and backend for a high-scale, bursty consumer product. Ship reliable, performant real-time systems using AI-assisted development, and own features from development through production and monitoring.

Senior game developer to design and build online gaming products using C++, OpenGL/OpenGL ES and XNA. Requires graphics and OOP fundamentals, cross-platform development, SDLC experience, project management and client-facing skills. US work authorization and willingness to relocate to CA required. Contract (Corp-to-Corp).

Develop game software using C/C++, C#, Objective-C and .NET; implement graphics with DirectX or OpenGL/ES; work with SQL, SOAP/REST services; use tools like Visual Studio, Xcode, SN System, and Unity 3D. Must be authorized to work in the US.

Develop and implement HTML5 casino slot games from GDDs using TypeScript, PixiJS/Phaser and Spine. Create JIRA tickets, commit to GitLab, optimize performance, maintain tests and CI, collaborate with art, QA and producers, and deliver production-ready builds.

As a Game UX Engineer at Spawn, you'll create emotional connections through AI-driven character designs, reward systems, and onboarding experiences while ensuring they feel cohesive.

As a Game Engineer, you'll create engaging gameplay experiences by building physics engines and optimizing graphics for AI-generated game mechanics. You'll shape how games feel through features like animations and responsiveness without predefined designs.

Lead the design and development of core gameplay systems, mentor engineers, enforce coding standards, and manage technical collaboration.

Responsible for developing and supporting responsive web applications, collaborating on larger features and independently managing smaller tasks while writing clean code.

Architect and develop responsive web applications for internal users. Requires significant experience in game design and technical proficiency in various programming languages.