Careers
Join our talented team
Innovative. Collaborative. Competitive.
At Drifter we value you. As our team member your health, your happiness, and your well being are our priority. We recognize that in order to do your best, you need to feel your best and we do everything we can to make that happen. We constantly innovate to bring new programs, benefits, and improvements to our process. This means benefits like health insurance for you and your family with the premium fully covered by us, as well as dental, and vision insurance.
We also have unlimited PTO. We’re fully remote (with the option to work in our well-maintained office space), and offer roughly 22 days of mandatory fully paid holidays.
We have 3 months supplemental parental leave after your first year, additional benefits to upgrade your personal computer or work rig, health maintenance benefits, optional peace of mind insurance coverage, and of course a well-stocked fridge.
We want the best out of you and if you’re ready to be part of a dynamic team where you can own your contributions, you might just be ready to be a Drifter.
Our company culture and values
People
People are at the heart of Drifter, our employees, our fans, everything we do is for the people that drive us forward.
Respect
At Drifter we recognize that there are unique backgrounds, events, and insight that every individual can bring to the table. Everyone is deserving of respect and consideration.
Passion
We love games, we make games we want to play, and make games we would want to share with those around us. We are passionate about our people and our projects.
Quality
At Drifter we are quality driven, we approach every situation with the goal of making it as good as it can be.
Collaboration
We are a team, and we lean on each other and rely on one another in order to create the products our fans love. No Drifter is too big to assist any other member of the team.
Ownership
Own the opportunities in front of you. You have the freedom to develop the system or solution in service of a great game experience or our other core values.
Employee benefits
Health, dental, and vision.
Health premiums fully
covered by us!
Unlimited PTO
Plus ~22 days of fully paid
holidays every year!
Parental leave
3 months of parental leave
after your first year
Computer upgrades
Make annual upgrades to your own computer
sponsored by Drifter
TCOYS
Take Care of Yourself benefit! Up to $150 each month for keeping
your mind and body healthy. Yes, that includes video games.
Open positions
If you've been looking for the chance to work elbow to elbow with some of this industry’s fiercest contributors in a nimble, quality-driven environment, this is it! Please send your resume and any applicable work examples to jobs@drifter.games with the position in your subject line, and we'll reach out to you if it looks like you'll be a good fit. We look forward to hearing from you!
AI Game Designer
Drifter Entertainment is a fully remote game studio helmed by some of the game industry’s most experienced creators. We’re looking for an AI Game Designer to design and implement AI creatures for our next game. The AI Game Designer will work closely with creative leadership to develop features from concept to release.
We are looking for an AI Game Designer with hands-on experience building polished AI and behaviors for modern shooters.
The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years experience shipping great games as a designer, conceptualizing and implementing AI. They will be exceptionally good at expressing their ideas both by articulating the story of a feature through words and expressing ideas visually. An AI Game Designer has the ability to prototype features in-engine, test assumptions, and work with art and engineering toward high quality throughout production.
A passion for modern shooters and a deep understanding of their underlying gameplay systems is a must. If you’ve been looking for the chance to work elbow to elbow with some of this industry’s fiercest contributors in a nimble, quality-driven environment, this is it!
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with creative leadership to create, implement, and iterate on creatures and their behaviors.
- Creatively solve problems in a collaborative atmosphere.
- Share knowledge and experience to mentor other game designers.
- Find the great ideas no matter who or where they come from and champion them.
- Move quickly through the creative process to brainstorm, prototype, iterate, and implement systems and game mechanics.
- Work with other disciplines to achieve shared goals
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of industry experience as a Game Designer.
- Experience scripting and prototyping AI in-engine. (Experience with UE4. Blueprints experience is a plus.)
- Must have at least 1 shipped example of AI/boss design in an action game.
- Experience with developing features for Online Multiplayer is a plus.
- Some kind of awesome form of expressing ideas (you could be a good writer, skilled illustrator, video maker, or any other exceptional way of expressing ideas).
Range:
$90K-$120K/year
Senior AI Engineer
Drifter Entertainment is a Seattle based game studio helmed by longtime veterans of the game development industry who’ve helped build franchises such as Gears of War, Doom, and Halo.
We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to work with a talented team on a new, unannounced cooperative shooter. As an AI Engineer at Drifter you would work closely with all disciplines to help design and implement new creatures and behaviors in our games.
If you've been looking for the chance to work elbow to elbow with some of this industry’s fiercest contributors in a nimble, quality-driven environment, this is it!
Responsibilities:
- Spearhead implementation and design of AI behaviors and features across the title
- Work closely with design and characters teams to brainstorm, prototype, and iterate on multiple AI types, from low levels scraps to kaiju-sized boss monsters
- Utilize and augment the UE4 AI development tools to facilitate rapid development of new adversaries
Requirements:
- Shipped one or more AAA games in a professional AI-focused role
- Familiarity with behavior trees, navigation meshes (Recast/Detour), and other AI development tools
- Experience with Unreal Engine 4
Range:
$140K-$165K/year