[Hiring] Marathon AI Designer @Bungie

Apr 03, 2025 - Bungie is hiring a remote Marathon AI Designer. 💸 Salary: $80,000 - $123,000 usd. 📍Location: USA.

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Role Description

Bungie is looking for a technical, creative, and collaborative Associate to Mid-Level AI Designer to join Marathon’s Combatants Team. Our team is committed to fostering a creative, autonomous, and goal-oriented environment where we work cross-discipline to build memorable and compelling Combatants that challenge Players in fun and unique ways.

You will be responsible for crafting AI characters, creatures, and enemies to populate systemic encounters in Marathon’s dangerous and dynamic world. You will write design specs, create new characters, author new AI behavior, and tune AI combat difficulty. You will coordinate with AI engineers, 3D artists, animators, visual effects artists, and the audio team to breathe life into characters that provide players with both exciting challenges and clear cues to their moment-to-moment gameplay intentions.

Responsibilities

Work with a multi-disciplinary team of content creators and engineers to create memorable AI experiences
Write design spec documents for new characters, AI systems, game systems or tool capabilities
Proactively solicit feedback from stakeholders, and constantly upgrade your ideas and implementations based on that feedback
Work with Bungie's in-house character creation and data editing tools to create new characters, weapons, attacks, and abilities
Write text-based scripts that define the behavior tree for AI in the game, using a proprietary scripting language
Troubleshoot, debug, and fix AI behavior and performances
Tune and maintain large amounts of content and systems

Qualifications

Strong understanding of first-person action games; what makes these games fun, what the rules of thumb are for the genre, how and when to break them
Technically proficient; able to learn and utilize complex systems and toolchains to create gameplay experiences; able to suggest workflow improvements
Ability to analyze gameplay experiences, identify problems, and generate solutions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Requirements

For Mid-level candidates, in addition to the above skills, we are targeting:
Ability to operate autonomously while holding a creative vision
Ability to create plans and evaluations for meeting the experiential needs of the players and markets
Experience hiring, training, mentoring, and managing peer and junior designers
Experience delegating work or ownership of an area to peers
Ability to lead communication and “why” behind gameplay design decisions
Having wide-ranging experience, can use a variety of professional concepts in conjunction with Bungie objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective way

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience designing AI for first-person action games
Experience in Animation; able to talk anticipation, follow through, character and timing
Experience in creating action game missions or activities; able to understand how another designer will use AI characters to create a fun and memorable encounter

Benefits

Competitive salaries and discretionary bonus opportunities
Comprehensive healthcare coverage
Generous 401(k) matching
Flexible time off policies
Paid parental leave
Social clubs
And so much more

Pay Range

Bellevue Pay Range I: $80,000 — $86,000 USD
Bellevue Pay Range II: $93,000 — $123,000 USD

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Marathon AI Designer @Bungie

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Salary 💸 $80,000 - $123,000 usd	Remote Location USA
Job Type full-time	Posted Apr 03, 2025

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