Principal Engineer - Game Innovation
Remote
Job Summary
Design and build the AI-assisted game development pipeline, including version control, CI/CD, and automated evaluation gates for math, art, sound, and animation. Set the architecture for the game client and back-end server, managing round lifecycle, bet validation, RNG certification, and wallet operations. Lead integration with Fingenuity to turn candidate builds into certifiable titles across jurisdictions while prototyping mechanics and shipping real titles. Define AI engineering standards, guardrails, and human review gates to ensure no AI-generated output ships uninspected. Mentor engineers, establish code review culture, and standardize the stack for engine, tooling, and infrastructure.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years in software engineering
- significant time building games
- Director-level or principal-level scope as an individual contributor
- Shipped real-money casino games
- Direct experience with game clients and game servers
- math and paytable implementation
- RNG integration
- the certification process (GLI, BMM, or equivalent) in regulated US or European markets
- Deep game development experience across the stack
- a modern engine or framework for the client (for example Phaser, Godot, Unity, Cocos, or PixiJS)
- server-side services that hold game logic and outcomes
- Hands-on, demonstrated expertise using AI-assisted development tools and agents as a core part of building software
- A track record of defining conventions, guardrails, and workflows that a team adopts
- ideally applied to game development itself
- Real enthusiasm for AI in game production
- a point of view on what it does well, where it fails, and how to verify its output
- Experience standing up development infrastructure
- version control strategy
- CI/CD
- containerized environments
- artifact management
- observability
- reproducible builds
- Understanding of RGS and RNG integration
- wallet operations
- the reporting and audit requirements that come with real-money play
- A track record of shipping
- Multiple titles or platform releases you personally drove to live
- Comfort in a regulated industry
- able to work inside compliance requirements while still pushing on what is possible
- able to minimize the architectural cost of jurisdiction-specific rules
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Low ego, high ownership
- you unblock yourself
- you pair well with product
- you would rather ship and learn than debate in the abstract
Desired Qualifications
- Bonus points if you have built a game with it on your own time
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