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Sr. Gaming AI Experience Engineer Spring, Texas, United States of America

Senior Modeler (contractor) Genies LA, Los Angeles, California, U.S., Remote Genies is an AI avatar technology company powering the visual and embodiment layer for AI. Through the Genies SDK, their proprietary avatar framework brings AI to life as fully realized AI personas that look, think, behave, and play like living identities. Genies powers AI companion, NPC, and agent use cases across enterprise, consumer, creator, entertainment, and gaming. Genies has raised $200M from Silver Lake, BOND, and Bob Iger. Genies is built on the belief that every website, app, game, brand, and human will have an AI persona. Genies' avatars are the visual identity of the next internet. This contract role sits at the center of that: you'll own the quality and technical integrity of 3D character and prop assets that ship into our real-time avatar platform, used by millions. What you'll own: - End-to-end production of avatar-ready 3D assets - from concept interpretation through high-poly sculpt, optimized lowpoly modeling, and texturing - that meet our technical budgets and raise our visual bar. - Pipeline fluency: you know when to use traditional tools and when to reach for AI-assisted workflows (generative model, textures, and mesh optimization, AI retopo) to move faster without sacrificing craft. - Collaboration with Art Directors and Engineers to ensure assets behave correctly inside our Avatar Framework - not just look good in isolation. What you bring: - A portfolio of real-time character work that demonstrates and understands both technical discipline (clean topology, correct UVs, optimized textures) and

AI Research Scientist - Language - Meta AI (MRS) Menlo Park, CA The Meta AI team is working on advances in content understanding, user understanding, retrieval, and ranking. As a key driver of Meta's app growth, we are focused on improving recommendation systems by leveraging the latest advancements in AI, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. We're dedicated to advancing recommendation systems to improve user experiences across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and more. Responsibilities: - Collaborate and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in large language model research - Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results - Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts - Help identify long-term ambitious research goals as well as intermediate milestones - Prioritize research that can be applied to Meta's product development Minimum qualifications: - Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta - Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related technical fields - Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related technical fields - Experience in developing interactive solutions for computer vision, natural language processing, or computer graphics - Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research - Must

Brand Ambassador – Cat Ninja Mascot Character Epic Orlando, Florida Epic is a digital reading platform used by over 50 million kids - and we're bringing our beloved character Cat Ninja to life at one of the biggest EdTech conferences in the world. We need someone to wear the Cat Ninja costume, take photos with conference attendees, and bring good energy to our booth for two days. The convention center is fully air-conditioned, so it's a comfortable environment even in costume. What you'll be doing: - Wearing the Cat Ninja costume (full character with oversized head piece) - Taking photos with teachers, educators, and conference attendees - Interacting in a fun, friendly, non-verbal way with the crowd - Possibly doing some light dancing or posing alongside other mascot characters - Representing Epic's brand with enthusiasm and positivity What we're looking for: - Outgoing, high-energy personality - you genuinely enjoy being around people - Comfortable in costume and able to stay in character for stretches of time - Reliable - this is a two-day commitment and punctuality matters - No prior mascot experience required, just a great attitude - Must be local to Orlando or able to get yourself to the Orange County Convention Center Details: - Dates: Monday June 29 and Tuesday June 30, 2026 - Hours: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM both days - Location: Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL - Pay: $200 per day ($400 total), paid upon completion

Senior Generative AI Engineer Paris, France We're a new team building AI-assisted tools to make Datadog developers more effective, by autonomously generating tests, fixing bugs, and improving performance. We're looking for a product-minded generalist to help us quickly define and ship products that make all Datadog customers 10x developers. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Work closely with our users, designers, PMs, and data scientists on cutting edge and delightful LLM-based agents. Work on prompts, evals, and agent tools for working with code, and on the engineering to productionize these systems and integrate them with Datadog products. Prototype and see what works well in the real world, iterate closely with our users, and then ship. Follow the latest research on LLM prompting, agents, and code editing. Work with other Datadog teams to expand capabilities, for example integrating with the Datadog IDE extensions to deliver a CoPilot-like assistant, or Dynamic Instrumentation to collect more runtime data from production and pre-production environments. Who You Are: You're a backend engineer with at least 5 years of professional experience (Go, Java, Python) who values code simplicity and performance. You've shipped software that uses LLMs to production. You are passionate about Generative AI and its ability to help software engineers be more productive. You have

Character Performer/Mascot Edina, MN (Southdale) What is the Role? CAMP is seeking temporary Costumed Character Performers (Mascots) for a large-scale, family-friendly immersive experience. Pay rate : $20.00 hourly Hours/Availability: - The schedule will range anywhere from 5 hrs to 30 hrs per week, between 6-8-hour shifts per day Role Requirements: - Due to the limits of the character costumes, your height must be within the following height range: 5 ft and 5'4” - This is fully costumed, including a size XS/ S bodysuit to be worn underneath the costume and a full headpiece - Must be able to wear Mascot costume, full body, head to toe - wearing the costume is an essential function of the position - Ability to work day and evening shifts as well as weekends - Must be 18 years of age or older - You are authorized to work lawfully in the United States

Character Performer - AUDITION INFORMATION ONLY “We create happiness.” That's our motto at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. And it permeates everything we do. At Disney, you'll help inspire that magic by enabling our teams to push the limits of entertainment and create the never-before-seen!

Senior AI Workforce Specialist Tokyo, Tokyo, JP

Character Animation Lead BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations WHAT MAKES US EPIC? At the core of Epic's success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it's building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we're always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We're constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. ART What We Do Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire. What You'll Do Epic Games is looking for a Character Animation Director to join our Special Projects team to help drive the vision and execution of character animation across experimental and gameplay-driven prototypes. You will combine strong animation fundamentals with technical fluency in Unreal Engine to build responsive, expressive, and scalable animation systems. You will act as a bridge between animation and engineering - helping to define workflows, shape systems, and solve complex problems at the intersection of gameplay and motion. This role requires both hands-on creation and leadership: setting quality bars, guiding others, and helping a small team move quickly without sacrificing clarity or craft. In this role, you will - Lead the creation and implementation of high-quality, gameplay-driven animation in Unreal Engine - Prototype and iterate on new approaches to character movement, responsiveness, and player-driven animation - Collaborate

Agentic AI-Business Consultant (Principal) | Enterprise Tokyo, Tokyo, JP

Principal UX Designer, Prime Video Experience Design (PVXD) San Francisco, California, USA Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is changing the way people watch movies and TV. From one service, we're delivering versatile ways to watch hundreds of thousands of movies, TV series, and live events on the web, mobile, and TV. Our service is available in more than 200 territories globally, and we're just getting started. Prime Video is seeking a Principal UX Designer for an experimental, forward-thinking design lab exploring the frontier of generative AI, conversational experiences, and emergent entertainment technologies. This is not a traditional design role; it's a creative partnership at the edge of what's possible. You'll be pushing the boundaries of what Prime Video can become in an AI-first world. You'll hypothesize bold experiences - from conversations with AI characters inspired by entertainment properties to generative video and dynamic, personalized content - and bring them to life through rapid prototyping and iterative experimentation. This role sits at the intersection of moonshot thinking and hands-on craft. You'll be equally comfortable sketching a conversation flow with an LLM-powered character as you are pulling emerging generative tools (Runway, Luma AI, generative imagery platforms) into the product vision. You'll think metamorphically - not anchored to what Prime Video is today, but what it could become tomorrow. Key job responsibilities Frontier Design & Experimentation: * Design end-to-end experiences at

Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent (contract) Remote Genies is an AI avatar technology company powering the visual and embodiment layer for AI. Through the Genies SDK, their proprietary avatar framework brings AI to life as fully realized AI personas that look, think, behave, and play like living identities. Genies powers AI companion, NPC, and agent use cases across enterprise, consumer, creator, entertainment, and gaming. Genies has raised $200M from Silver Lake, BOND, and Bob Iger. Genies is built on the belief that every website, app, game, brand, and human will have an AI persona. We are seeking a highly motivated and passionate Machine Learning Engineer to join our core AI team in San Francisco, CA. This is a high-impact role where you will take end-to-end ownership of the research and development behind our core AI avatar chat systems. You will drive the technical roadmap that defines the intelligence, personality, and interactivity of millions of AI avatars. By tackling fundamental technical challenges, you will bring fun, autonomous, and inspiring AI companions to life. Working alongside a dedicated team of engineers and researchers, you will bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world, consumer-facing product impact. What You'll Do ▸ Research and implement state-of-the-art AI solutions. You'll apply foundation models, prompt engineering, RAG, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent architectures - alongside classical ML techniques - to power a multimodal AI avatar product. ▸ Architect and deliver scalable agentic systems. You'll design and implement AI features within our backend, building agent infrastructure that

Chief character business producer(Okaimono Panda) , Customer Strategy Department - Platform Strategy Supervisory Department(CSD) Tokyo, Japan posted: Posted 30+ Days Ago

Principal Software Engineer - Agentic AI 2 Locations posted: Posted 2 Days Ago

Product Design Engineer Toronto, Ontario, Canada About Us: Viggle AI is a leading generative AI startup backed by top-tier investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Two Small Fish Ventures (TSFV). We are building AI-powered creation tools that enable anyone to create, animate, and interact with digital characters. Our platform combines generative AI, 3D technology, and real-time experiences to help creators bring their ideas to life. Today, Viggle is used by more than 45 million users worldwide, from professional creators and digital artists to everyday content creators, and is supported by one of the world's largest creator communities. About the Role We're looking for a Design Engineer who combines strong product design fundamentals with a passion for rapid prototyping and AI-native product development. You'll own end-to-end product experiences across web, mobile, and creator tools, working closely with Product, Engineering, and AI teams to design intuitive, engaging experiences powered by cutting-edge technology. From concept to launch, you'll help shape the future of AI-driven content creation through thoughtful design, rapid experimentation, and close collaboration. This is a high-impact role with significant ownership and the opportunity to influence both product direction and user experience at scale. What You'll Do - Lead product design across web, mobile, and creator-facing tools-from discovery and concept development through polished execution and launch. - Design intuitive AI-powered workflows, character creation experiences, and social features that make advanced technology accessible and enjoyable for millions of users. - Craft elegant interfaces, thoughtful interactions, and scalable design systems that delight creators and

Narrative Systems Designer Cary,North Carolina,United States WHAT MAKES US EPIC? At the core of Epic's success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it's building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we're always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We're constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. DESIGN What We Do Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic. What You'll Do Epic Games is looking for a character-focused Narrative Systems Designer to join our dynamic team. You'll be a key player on a team focused on using the latest technology to create NPC interactions that delight, engage, and retain players. In this role, you will - Design and implement NPC interactions with players and other NPCs, focusing on each character's personality, background and narrative - Think about character interactions and story systemically, bringing both technical skills and a creative writing touch to your day-to-day work - Work closely with leads to develop and validate satisfying relationship systems with characters - Work with Production and your leads to identify and prioritize work essential for creating these systems - Create deeply engaging conversations and questlines - Work with

Senior AI Engineer Novato, California, United States Cloud Chamber is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our talented development team to further push the development of the AI Systems and AI Archetype for BioShock 4. We have high ambitions for tying AI and storytelling together in our project. It will be your responsibility to crystallize that ambition, helping to support several AI systems, and bring several AI Archetypes to life. In this role, you'll collaborate with an engaged team to push the state of the art and experiment with unproven ideas. We are attempting new and ambitious things with AI in this game. You are bold, brave, and believe in an iterative, experimental approach to game development, moving comfortably between design and engineering, collaborating and communicating ambition and limitations. What You'll Do: - Collaborate with the team to: - Iterate and polish existing AI Systems and Archetypes. - Bring new Archetypes into existence. - Take confident ownership over the architecture and implementation within the systems of your domain. - Work on implementation and maintenance of AI behavior tree and associated systems. - Focus and help plan for ensuring all of our AI Systems and Archetypes operate performantly and within memory budgets. - Improve design-facing tools for authoring and scripting combat encounters. - Create and maintain technical documentations. - Review the work of other engineers and share expertise in your area of knowledge. What We'll Do Together: You will work closely with our Design, Animation, Audio, VFX, and Art departments

Lead Character Artist Valencia, Spain Who We Are At 2K, we create some of the most iconic and culture-shaping video games in entertainment, including NBA® 2K , one of the top-selling franchises in the world, and legendary titles like BioShock® , Borderlands® , Mafia , Sid Meier's Civilization ® , and XCOM® , as well as fan favorites WWE® 2K , TopSpin® , and PGA TOUR® 2K . We build unforgettable experiences by pushing the boundaries of creativity, authenticity and innovation across every genre. Our portfolio is brought to life by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Visual Concepts, Firaxis Games, Hangar 13, Cat Daddy Games, 31st Union, Cloud Chamber, Gearbox, HB Studios, and 2K SportsLab create world-class experiences across platforms. But what truly powers 2K is our people. We believe the best ideas come from teams that feel empowered, supported, and inspired. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace where people are encouraged to come as they are and do their best work. What We Need As Lead Character Artist, you'll drive the craft of exceptional characters across our diverse 2K titles and styles. You're here to push our visual bar, mentor the team, and make sure our artists thrive while creating world-class characters. The ideal candidate brings a people-first approach. They love building teams and adapt easily to challenges in a constantly evolving industry. This role will be key in shaping the next generation of game

ML Engineer - Automated Evaluation and Adversarial Design Culver City, United States of America The Productivity and Machine Learning Evaluation team ensures the quality of AI-powered features across a suite of productivity and creative applications; including Creator Studio, used by hundreds of millions of people. This team serves as the primary evaluation function, providing critical quality signals that directly influence model development decisions and product launches. This role focuses on building and scaling automated evaluation systems and designing adversarial and stress-testing methodologies across multiple AI features. The work requires a deep understanding of how AI systems fail and how to measure quality rigorously. As features evolve from single-turn interactions into multi-turn, agentic experiences, the evaluation challenge shifts from assessing individual outputs to stress-testing entire conversation flows and agent decision chains. This is an opportunity to shape the evaluation infrastructure that determines whether AI features meet the bar for hundreds of millions of users. Day-to-day work involves designing, building, and maintaining automated evaluation systems that assess AI feature quality at scale, including multi-turn conversation evaluation and end-to-end agent workflow testing. This includes creating adversarial test suites that probe model weaknesses and running stress tests to ensure features perform under demanding conditions, with particular focus on failure modes that only emerge across extended interactions, such as: context degradation, goal drift, and compounding errors. Typical deliverables include: evaluation frameworks and rubrics, quality assessment reports, adversarial test case libraries, multi-turn stress-test pipelines, and recommendations on model readiness. Define and own the automated evaluation approach

Robot Puppeteer (Contractor) New York City | OnSite About Tuesday Tuesday Labs builds delightful robots. We are driven by a desire to make everyday life easier and more fun with cutting-edge robotics. If you love watching robot dance routines, building worlds in video games, and tinkering with hardware, you should come work at the Lab. We are engineers, researchers, and builders who love living among our creations. Our mission is to make every day delightful. The Role We are seeking passionate and clever performing artists to operate our robots as we test the personality, interactions, and behaviors of our robot character. You will draw on your experience as an actor or puppeteer to embody the different characters that we have created for the robot as we test these characters with users. Using an AR headset, you will operate the robot, performing household tasks and interacting with users in test environments. Responsibilities: - Operate the robot using a VR headset to interact with humans. This will include speaking into a microphone, controlling gaze, controlling emotive body movement, and executing house cleaning tasks. - Test out new hardware and software, and provide feedback to the design and engineering teams. - Generate new ideas for robot character traits based on user tests. Required Qualifications: - You have been paid for acting or puppeteering (or similar) work in the last 2 years. - Ability to communicate clearly and promptly. - Ability to work in New York City, most often in Flatiron. Nice-to-haves: - Experience

Technical Designer in Animation BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations WHAT MAKES US EPIC? At the core of Epic's success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it's building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we're always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We're constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. ART What We Do Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire. What You'll Do Epic Games is looking for a Technical Designer in Animation (TDiA) to join our team working across various animation systems. As a TDiA, you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate entertaining, high-quality characters. You will be a primary point of contact for animation implementation, any animation-related technical challenges, and will work closely with Animation, Design, and Programming colleagues to ensure the animation pipeline operates smoothly and efficiently. You will also help identify potential issues and deploy correct solutions, using your technical knowledge to help bridge and facilitate communication between the animation team and other departments. In this role, you will - Build animation behavior tools, techniques, and frameworks that enable complex systems and entertaining characters - Design and implement animation state machines,

AI Data Associate with French, Artificial General Intelligence – Data Services Amman, JOR AI is the most transformational technology of our time, capable of tackling some of humanity's most challenging problems. Amazon is investing in generative AI and the responsible development and deployment of large language models (LLMs) across all of our businesses. Come build the future of human-technology interaction with us. We are looking for those candidates who just don't think out of the box, but make the box they are in 'Bigger'. The future is now, do you want to be a part of it? Then read on! Key job responsibilities - Maintain and follow strict confidentiality as customer privacy is our most important tenet - Work with a range of different types of data including, but not limited to: text, speech, audio, image, and video - Deliver high-quality labelled data, using guidelines provided to meet our KPIs and using in-house tools and software, as part of Amazon's commitment to developing and deploying AI responsibly. - Demonstrate proficiency in generating high quality human insight data across a range of modalities, inclusive of text, image video and audio. - Capable of making sound judgments and logical decisions when faced with ambiguous or incomplete information while performing tasks. - Eye for detail and ability to pivot from one category of requirement to another instantaneously. - Demonstrate support on daily operational deliverables for multiple task types assigned to you and the team - Analyze root causes, identify error patterns, and propose

Staff AI Engineer - Multi-Agent Frameworks United States At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀 Role Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Staff AI Engineer - Multi-Agent Frameworks to join our AI Platform team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in building a cutting-edge platform that empowers our users to create and deploy sophisticated intelligent agents, with a key focus on enabling collaborative and multi-agentic behaviors . This is a backend-focused role that requires deep expertise in AI, large language models (LLMs), and orchestration software. Key Responsibilities: - Design, develop, and maintain a robust platform to enable users to create and manage AI agents and their interactions. - Integrate and work with multiple LLMs, ensuring seamless orchestration and scalability for both individual and coordinated agent operations. - Leverage orchestration frameworks like LangGraph and others to build complex workflows and pipelines that support diverse agent functionalities, including frameworks for multi-agent coordination . - Develop and implement evaluation frameworks for testing AI agents in challenging and complex scenarios, focusing on individual performance and system-level dynamics. - Stay at the forefront of AI advancements, incorporating the latest research and technologies into our platform to enhance agent

Product Marketing Manager Redwood City, CA, Redwood City, California, United States About the Role At Character.AI , our mission is to build the future of AI entertainment, giving everyone access to personalized, engaging AI experiences. To bring that mission to the world, we need a product marketing leader who can own how we launch, how we message, and how we show up-in app stores, inside our product, and across every surface users encounter. As PMM, you will lead go-to-market for product launches, own ASO performance across iOS and Android, and write the in-product copy that drives conversion across our monetization surfaces. You'll partner with Monetization PMs (who own revenue strategy, pricing, and channel P&Ls) to translate their decisions into compelling user-facing messaging. This is Character's first dedicated PMM hire. You'll report to the Head of Growth Marketing and sit at the center of Product, Growth, and Creative-defining the function from the ground up. Responsibilities Go-to-Market Strategy - Lead GTM end-to-end for product launches: positioning, messaging, launch plans, cross-functional timelines, and branded campaigns - Own the c.ai + subscription promo calendar: plan and execute deals, discounts, and trial offers timed to brand moments, cultural moments, and product launches - Conceive and execute branded campaigns that build awareness, drive trial, and reinforce Character's brand with consumers - Build and maintain the positioning framework: product positioning, competitive messaging, and value propositions that evolve with the product and market - Monitor the competitive landscape: track competitor positioning, pricing, and marketing to inform messaging and