Gameplay Programmer (AI) - Strategic Shooter
Rebellion, United Kingdom
Job Description
We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.
We operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. So, if you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support flexible/hybrid working options.
We are on the lookout for a Programmer to join our highly experienced code team to help work on an exciting, unannounced online multiplayer shooter: join one of our new large-scale projects developed by the members of the original Sniper Elite 5 team.
As a Programmer you will be tasked with designing, implementing and optimising AI behaviours and systems to create engaging and immersive gameplay experiences in our inhouse proprietary engine.
You will be joining a small, passionate, and experienced team with a proven record of delivering quality experiences.
Requirements
- Excellent C/C++ programming skills, with sound knowledge of object-oriented development.
- Strong professional experience having shipped at least one title on console and/or PC, with work related to Animation and Gameplay.
- Experience working with a large game codebase, and its modules, middleware.
- Comprehension of software performance considerations, with the ability to design and implement well performing systems.
- Knowledge of common algorithms, data structures and patterns, and their application.
- Ability to analyse unfamiliar code of a reasonable complexity to understand, extend, refactor, and optimise an existing module.
- An interest in shooters, and/or cooperative experiences.
Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:
- 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years one day each year until you reach 31 days)
- Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
- Life Assurance, Income Protection amp; Critical Illness Cover
- Enhanced Family Leave
- Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
- Plus loads more including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!
About Us
Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.
Find out more about us here
Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.
We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.
If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers