AI Systems Architect - Studio Co-Founder

AI Systems Architect - Studio Co-Founder

Overview

We are looking for a Founding AI Systems Architect to help build the technical and AI foundations of a new mobile gaming company from the ground up.

This is not a traditional role inside an established studio. It is a true zero to one opportunity where you will define how AI is used across the product, the architecture that supports it, and the long-term technology strategy of the company.

The studio’s first product is a gamified mobile app built on strong free-to-play principles. AI will play a key role in shaping intelligent systems around player engagement, personalisation, retention and feature dynamics.

Over time the platform will expand into a portfolio of Unity-based mobile games.

This role will work directly with the founder and early leadership team and will have a major influence on the studio’s long-term technology roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall AI architecture for the studio’s products, ensuring systems can scale from the initial app into future game titles.
• Design and implement AI driven systems that improve player engagement, retention and personalisation.
• Architect AI infrastructure and pipelines that integrate effectively with mobile applications and Unity based games.
• Design systems that allow data, player behaviour and live operations to inform AI driven features and gameplay.
• Build frameworks and tooling that allow engineers, designers and product teams to integrate AI capabilities into products.
• Ensure systems are scalable, performant and suitable for mobile platforms.
• Play a key role in shaping the long term technical vision of the company as part of the founding team.

Technical Requirements

• Strong background in software engineering and system architecture.
• Experience designing and deploying AI or machine learning systems in production environments.
• Experience building scalable backend systems and integrating AI services into applications.
• Experience working with or integrating systems into Unity or real time interactive environments.
• Ability to work across product, engineering and design to translate ideas into scalable technical solutions.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in mobile games or free-to-play game development.
• Experience building gameplay AI systems or simulation systems.
• Experience with personalisation systems, recommendation engines or player behaviour modelling.
• Experience working in early-stage startups or building products from zero.
• Experience with generative AI, reinforcement learning or adaptive gameplay systems.
• Experience designing developer tools or AI frameworks used by product teams.

What You Will Help Build

• An AI foundation that supports both a consumer mobile application and a future portfolio of games.
• Intelligent systems that power player engagement, progression and personalisation.
• AI frameworks that scale across multiple Unity based game projects.
• A modern technology stack designed from the ground up for a new generation of AI enhanced mobile games.