Technical Director, Applied AI

This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on applying emerging AI technologies to game development, creative production, and engineering workflows.
You will sit at the intersection of AI, Engineering, Technical Art, Creative Technology, and R&D, identifying practical opportunities where AI can create measurable value.
The role combines research, rapid prototyping, technical experimentation, automation, and production integration across modern game-development environments.
You will explore AI models, coding agents, multimodal systems, automation frameworks, and agentic workflows while separating genuinely useful technology from short-lived trends.
You will work directly with engineers, Technical Artists, artists, and production teams to turn successful experiments into robust tools and scalable workflows.
Beyond building solutions, you will help establish practical AI standards, educate teams, and shape how AI is responsibly and effectively adopted across multiple disciplines.
This is an opportunity for a technically strong, highly curious individual to influence the future of applied AI while solving real production challenges in an international, fully remote environment.

• Strong senior-level technical experience in software engineering, Technical Art, tools development, creative technology, procedural systems, game development, or a comparable technical discipline.

• A proven track record of building real-world tools, systems, applications, plugins, pipelines, or production technologies.

• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, C#, C++, TypeScript, or similar.

• Strong practical understanding of modern AI models, APIs, coding agents, automation, and AI-assisted development.

• Ability to rapidly prototype technical concepts and independently assess their practical value.

• Proven experience taking R&D projects from early experimentation through to production-ready solutions.

• Strong understanding of real-time production and game-development workflows.

• Experience working with environments such as Unity, Unreal Engine, Houdini, Blender, Maya, or comparable creative and technical platforms.

• Ability to work directly and effectively with both engineers and artists.

• Strong problem-solving skills, technical curiosity, and a high degree of ownership.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in a clear and accessible way.

• Ability to teach, mentor, and enable others to adopt new technical workflows.

• Comfortable operating independently in areas where established best practices may not yet exist.

• Fluent English.

• Professional game-development experience.

• A Technical Art, creative technology, or similar interdisciplinary background.

• Experience with procedural content generation and procedural production workflows.

• Strong Houdini experience.

• Experience with graphics, rendering, shaders, or real-time systems.

• Experience building custom AI agents, agentic workflows, or multi-agent systems.

• Experience with LLM APIs, multimodal models, local AI models, MCP, or comparable integration technologies.

• Experience developing internal production, developer, or creative technology tools.

• Experience applying AI to 2D, 3D, animation, VFX, video, or other content-production workflows.

• Open-source projects, plugins, tools, technical experiments, or significant personal projects demonstrating practical engineering ability.

• Experience introducing new technology, tools, or workflows into an established production team.

• Demonstrated experience building AI solutions that form part of a broader technical system rather than simply using existing AI interfaces.