Top Game Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Own the implementation, hardening, and polish of game AI behaviors and systems for shipping. Collaborate with design, animation, and other disciplines to tune AI features and support the creative vision. Ensure reliable, stable enemy behaviors and enhance existing architecture. The role requires deep Unreal Engine and modern game AI experience, strong C++ skills, animation systems knowledge, and at least one shipped game title focused primarily on AI.

Develop and ship gameplay features, UI, and systems for the open-source Threadbare game using an existing codebase. Responsibilities include debugging, performance and stability improvements, testing, code reviews, planning, tooling, documentation, and collaboration with design and art. The role also involves reviewing learner code, providing written mentorship, supporting educational tooling, and participating in occasional community events.

Owns the implementation, hardening, tuning, and polish of game AI behaviors and systems for shipping quality. Collaborates with design, animation, and other disciplines to create believable enemy behavior and strong player experiences. The role requires expertise in Unreal Engine, modern game AI architecture, animation systems, and C++, along with experience shipping at least one game focused primarily on AI, preferably a AAA action or FPS title.

Build and maintain production-quality gameplay systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Provide technical guidance on simulation and networking, and collaborate with designers, artists, content creators, and engine teams to develop game-building systems and tools for an unannounced PlayStation project from pre-production through release.

Develop and implement mobile games using Unity for iOS and Android. Collaborate with teams on gameplay features and optimization, ensuring quality code and user experience.

Develop and implement HTML5 casino slot games from GDDs using TypeScript, PixiJS/Phaser and Spine. Create JIRA tickets, commit to GitLab, optimize performance, maintain tests and CI, collaborate with art, QA and producers, and deliver production-ready builds.

Develop and maintain engine-level systems, game modding tools, and editor extensions. Implement and optimize rendering pipelines and shaders using DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL/Metal. Profile and optimize CPU/GPU/memory and multithreaded workloads, debug complex graphics issues, and collaborate with engineers, artists, and designers to deliver high-quality, maintainable C++ engine code.

Senior graphics engineer responsible for building and maintaining production-quality C++ gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5, evolving rendering systems (lighting, materials, particles, post-process, shadows), collaborating with artists to implement stylized rendering and shaders, optimizing CPU/GPU/memory performance, and diagnosing/fixing graphics and pipeline issues.