Programming Team Lead (Lead AI Behavior Systems)

As a Programming Team Lead (Lead AI Behavior Systems) at Ubisoft Montreal, you will join a multidisciplinary team bringing together experts in data, programming, game design, narrative, and animation to explore the potential of generative AI in gameplay.

You will contribute to the development of dynamic, immersive, and surprising game experiences by leading a team focused on AI behavior systems. Working at the intersection of research and development, game creation, and cross-studio collaboration, you will help build the technologies behind the next generation of gameplay experiences.

• Lead a multidisciplinary team composed of MLOps specialists, data scientists, and AI programmers.
• Prioritize, assign, and track team tasks based on deliverables and production goals.
• Design hybrid behavior architectures combining reinforcement learning, imitation learning, generative AI, and traditional game AI approaches.
• Define orchestration strategies between learned systems and deterministic systems.
• Develop credible, controllable, and high-performing systems aligned with gameplay intentions.
• Contribute to the design of machine learning deployment architectures, including online learning approaches.
• Drive scientific monitoring and applied research activities related to decision-making and learning systems.
• Collaborate with gameplay, design, and production teams to support adoption of developed solutions.
• Mentor and support team members in their technical and professional growth.
• Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and performance follow-ups for team members.