Gameplay Programmer, Games, Inception, DeepMind

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++, Python, or JavaScript).
• Experience leading technical strategy across multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., Research, Product, Design) to align engineering roadmaps with non-technical business goals.
• Experience in a technical leadership role (Lead or Staff) through the full software development Life Cycle (SDLC) for one or more shipped AAA title or large-scale interactive product.
• Experience in game tech research and development, including AI/ML, procedural generation, and advanced engine optimization.
• Experience in architecting 0-to-1 systems.

Nice to haves:

• Experience training ML models or integrating generative AI into consumer-facing products.
• Experience building high-performance web frontends or interactive browser-based experiences.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or leading innovative technical experiments.
• Familiarity with Google’s internal infrastructure (google3) and development workflows.
• Knowledge of modern game engines (Unreal, Unity, Godot) or proprietary internal frameworks.

What you'll be doing:

• Design and rapidly implement the technical foundations for gameplay prototypes that utilize agentic workflows and generative models as core mechanics.
• Build internal tools, scaffolding, and workflows that empower designers and researchers to easily experiment with complex AI pipelines.
• Lead the integration of small- and large-scale streaming models into game environments, creatively hiding latency and consistency issues inherent to probabilistic models.
• Partner closely with designers and research scientists to solve "unsolvable" technical bottlenecks in early-stage, design-focused projects.
• Build compliant pipelines for data managing and model testing where stability matters, while maintaining the speed and flexibility required for rapid game prototyping.

Perks and Benefits:

• Inception runs like a startup, balancing high energy idea generation with pragmatic, clear and regularly refined operations.
• This collaborative, multidisciplinary group is situated primarily in London and Mountain View with collaborators across the globe.
• Diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.