Job Title: Software Engineer (AI)
Job Type: Contract - 3 Months with possible extension
Pay rate: up to £32.70 per hour - PAYE
Remote: must be based in London.
The Client:
I’m currently working with the world’s largest social media platform. They are currently developing their AI platform and are on the lookout for a talented software engineer to join them.
Duties:
In this role, you will embed deeply with researchers at the company’s AI Research to develop and debug reinforcement learning environments.
Role Responsibilities
- Develop highly scalable game engine code in C/C++ and Python.
- Collaborate with the AI Research Scientists to facilitate research that enables learning in sequential decision-making problems.
- Apply knowledge of relevant domains along with expert coding skills to platform and framework development projects.
- Adapt machine learning and neural network algorithms and architectures to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU).
Role Requirements:
- Expert knowledge of game engine development, preferably for "grid-world" games.
- Expert knowledge of C and C++ on POSIX systems, including threads, context switching, dynamic libraries (dlopen, dlmopen).
- Good knowledge of Python.
Preffered Qualifications:
- Good knowledge of PyTorch.
- Experience with training RL algorithms on GPUs.
- Experience with the game NetHack.
- Experience with procedural content generation for game development.
- Experience with designing game combat mechanisms.
- Experience with game UI development.
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