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Senior AI Designer

Epic Games
Cary, USAfull_timePosted 2 Jun 2026

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><h2>WHAT MAKES US EPIC?</h2> <p>At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.</p> <p>Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.</p></div><h2>DESIGN</h2> <h3><strong>What We Do</strong></h3> <p>Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <p>Epic Games is looking for an experienced Senior AI Designer to join our cross-disciplinary development team, where you will own the vision and create innovative features.</p> <h3><strong>In this role, you will</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the design vision for AI-focused features.</li> <li>Craft high-quality, player-facing AI behaviors and abilities using behavior trees and visual scripting.</li> <li>Create quick prototypes to try out and demonstrate new ideas in the game </li> <li>Collaborate with team members from various disciplines to deliver high-quality experiences to our players</li> <li>Cooperate with other designers from the AI team to define and promote a cohesive vision for AI in your project</li> <li>Use playtest feedback to iterate and improve AI features</li> <li>Create and maintain clear and concise design documentation</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What we're looking for</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience shipping multiple AAA titles as a Designer</li> <li>Experience developing AI for a highly systemic environment</li> <li>Experience creating behavior trees and using visual scripting</li> <li>A creative approach that can surprise and amaze players with new ideas and experiences</li> <li>Talent for empathizing with players and a deep understanding of player motivations.</li> <li>Team player with good communication skills (verbal and written)</li> </ul> <h2>EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE</h2> <p><span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":13201,"3":{"1":0},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2&am

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