Ubisoft

Senior AI Programmer

Ubisoft • $90K — $120K *
Montreal, QC H1A 0A1In-Person
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5+ years of AI programming experience, ideally in gaming
  • Proficient in C++ programming language
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
  • Experience developing for video game consoles
  • Detail-oriented with flexible work organization
  • Strong communication skills across disciplines
  • Creative mindset with a drive for innovation

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain real-time gameplay AI systems in Unreal Engine
  • Own AI behaviors from architecture to debugging and optimization
  • Collaborate with gameplay, animation, tech design, and networking teams
  • Focus on performance and scalability, ensuring stability and playability
  • Act as a senior contributor by writing code, mentoring, and sharing best practices

Benefits

  • Small, empowered team environment
  • Opportunity to work on an ambitious multiplayer project
  • Hands-on involvement in critical AI feature delivery
  • Access to innovative projects and creative freedom
  • Mentorship opportunities and collaboration across disciplines
Full Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION

We're a small, empowered team building an ambitious multiplayer experience, developed in Unreal Engine. We're looking for hands-on developers with a strong execution mindset, ownership, and pride in building something real-together.

What you'll do
  • Design, implement, and maintain real-time gameplay AI systems in Unreal Engine
  • Own AI behaviors end to end: architecture, implementation, debugging, tuning, and optimization in real gameplay conditions.
  • Work closely with gameplay, animation, tech design, and networking teams to deliver readable, systemic, high-quality, and debuggable AI, compatible with a server-authoritative architecture.
  • Maintain a constant focus on performance and scalability (CPU, AI budgets, behavioral LODs, agent counts, network impact), with a clear priority on stability and "always playable" gameplay.
  • Act as a senior, hands-on, pragmatic contributor: write code daily, mentor others, challenge over-engineered solutions, share best practices, and help secure the delivery of critical AI features.
QUALIFICATIONS

What You Bring
  • Around5 yearsofexperience inAI programming, ideallyin the videogameindustry
  • Proficiency inC++ language
  • An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, ComputerEngineeringor equivalent
  • Experience developing onvideogameconsoles
  • Thatrare mix of attention to detail and flexibility in your work organization
  • A proficiency to communicate with all disciplines and to support and elevate the team in terms of quality and vision of the game
  • You are creative and thirstyfor innovation


Nice to Have
  • Experience aspart of a teamthathas shipped a video game

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA is a French video game company headquartered in Montreuil with several development studios across the world. It publishes games for several video game franchises, including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Prince of Persia, Rayman, Raving Rabbids, and Tom Clancy's. The company's largest development studio is Ubisoft Montreal in Canada, which is responsible for the development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Watch Dogs, among others. Ubisoft is the fourth largest publicly traded game company in the Americas and Europe in terms of revenue and market capitalization, after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive. The company has over 18,000 employees and has development studios in 35 countries. Ubisoft's revenue for the fiscal year 2020-2021 was ?2.2 billion.
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Size
20,665 employees
Industry
Media
Founded
1986
NASDAQ
UBSFY
* Ladders Estimates

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