Senior Game Engineer, GenAI - Games

Netflix is hiring a Senior Game Engineer to use generative AI to build dynamic, AI-augmented gameplay — connecting GenAI to behavior trees, narrative engines, and world-building tools while keeping outputs safe, balanced, and fun.

$280,000 – $400,000 / yr

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Senior

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What you'll do

• Collaborate with game designers to prototype and deploy AI-enhanced gameplay features
• Implement GenAI capabilities that improve player experience while maintaining quality and fun Unique
• Design architecture connecting GenAI to behavior trees, narrative engines, and world-building tools
• Build content guardrails aligning AI outputs with game themes, safety, and mechanical balance
• Accelerate development using GenAI for level design, asset variation, and play testing Unique
• Troubleshoot interactions between AI systems and deterministic game logic Unique

• 5+ years professional game development with deep game-architecture and real-time-systems knowledge
• Demonstrated experience applying LLMs or diffusion models to product challenges
• Understanding of how AI parameters affect game balance and player experience
• Expert-level C++ or C# (Unity/Unreal);
  Python for tooling
• Enthusiasm for GenAI's potential for new gameplay genres Unique