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You may come from software engineering, Technical Art, tools development, procedural systems, creative technology, graphics, or another deeply technical field.\nAI should amplify what you were already capable of building, not be the starting point of your technical experience.\nYour role will be to continuously explore new AI capabilities, identify where they can create meaningful value for Beffio, build working prototypes, validate them in real production scenarios, and turn successful experiments into workflows and tools that can be used by the wider team.\nKey Responsibilities\nApplied AI R&D\n\nResearch and evaluate emerging AI models, coding agents, frameworks, workflows, and development tools.\n\nIdentify practical opportunities for AI across game development, art production, engineering, and internal workflows.\n\nBuild prototypes and proof-of-concepts to quickly validate ideas.\n\nSeparate genuinely useful technology from short-lived trends and hype.\n\nTurn successful experiments into robust production solutions.\n\nGame Development & Production Integration\n\nExplore and implement AI-assisted workflows across Unity3D, Unreal Engine, Houdini, Blender, and other production tools.\n\nBuild AI-powered tools, plugins, integrations, agents, and automation.\n\nWork with Engineering, Technical Art, VFX, Animation, Environment, Character, and Production teams to identify high-value use cases.\n\nIntegrate AI into existing pipelines rather than treating it as a separate experimental layer.\n\nLook for opportunities to improve speed, quality, iteration, automation, and creative capability.\n\nAgentic Development & Automation\n\nExplore modern agentic development workflows using tools such as coding agents, custom agents, MCP-based integrations, and multi-agent systems.\n\nDevelop workflows that allow developers and artists to automate repetitive or technically complex tasks.\n\nBuild internal tools that connect AI systems with existing production environments.\n\nExperiment with new approaches to software development, technical art, validation, documentation, review, and production automation.\n\nAI Enablement\n\nEstablish practical standards and best practices for using AI within Beffio.\n\nDocument successful workflows so they can be adopted by others.\n\nRun internal workshops and demonstrations for different disciplines.\n\nHelp team members move beyond basic prompting toward building their own tools, agents, and AI-assisted workflows.\n\nCommunicate complex technology in a clear and practical way.\n\nRequirements\n\nStrong senior-level technical experience in software engineering, Technical Art, tools development, creative technology, procedural systems, game development, or a comparable field.\n\nA proven track record of building real tools, systems, applications, plugins, pipelines, or production technology.\n\nStrong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, C#, C++, TypeScript, or similar.\n\nStrong practical understanding of modern AI models, APIs, coding agents, automation, and AI-assisted development.\n\nAbility to rapidly prototype ideas and independently evaluate their technical and production value.\n\nExperience taking R&D from early experimentation through to a production-ready solution.\n\nStrong understanding of real-time production and game development workflows.\n\nExperience with tools such as Unity, Unreal Engine, Houdini, Blender, Maya, or comparable environments.\n\nAbility to work directly with both engineers and artists.\n\nStrong communication and presentation skills.\n\nAbility to teach complex technical concepts in a simple and practical way.\n\nHigh degree of curiosity, ownership, and independent problem solving.\n\nFluent English.\n\nNice to Have\n\nProfessional game development experience.\n\nTechnical Art or creative technology background.\n\nExperience with procedural content generation.\n\nHoudini and procedural workflows.\n\nExperience with graphics, rendering, shaders, or real-time systems.\n\nExperience building custom AI agents or multi-agent workflows.\n\nExperience with LLM APIs, multimodal models, local models, MCP, or similar integration technologies.\n\nExperience developing internal production or developer tools.\n\nExperience with AI-assisted 2D, 3D, animation, VFX, video, or content-production workflows.\n\nOpen-source projects, plugins, tools, or personal technical projects.\n\nExperience introducing new technology or workflows into an existing production team.\n\nWhat We Would Like to See\nFor this role, we care strongly about proof of work.\nWe would particularly like to understand two things:\nWhat did you build before the current AI wave?\nShow us examples of systems, games, tools, plugins, pipelines, applications, procedural solutions, or other technical work that demonstrates your underlying capabilities.\nWhat are you building with AI today?\nShow us work where AI is part of a larger technical solution rather than simply the use of an existing AI interface.\nThis could include:\n\nAI agents\n\ninternal tools\n\ndevelopment workflows\n\nautomation\n\nintegrations\n\nplugins\n\nproduction pipelines\n\ngame-development experiments\n\nmultimodal systems\n\ncreative technology prototypes\n\nFor your strongest examples, we would like to understand:\nWhat problem were you solving?\nWhat did you build?\nHow did it work?\nWhich technologies did you use?\nWhat did you learn or change during development?\nWhat was the final impact?\nWe value demonstrated technical problem solving and working prototypes more than familiarity with a long list of AI products.\nOwnership\nWe are looking for someone who can:\n\nGo from research → prototype → validation → integration → adoption.\n\nIndependently investigate technologies where established best practices may not yet exist.\n\nMake pragmatic decisions about which AI technologies are genuinely useful for production.\n\nBuild things, not only recommend 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