Hangar 13

Job Title Senior Gameplay & Animation Engineer Department Engineering Location(s) Brighton (preferred), Brno, Prague Reports To Lead engineer Job Type (Permanent, fixed term, internship) Permanent Who We Are Home to the award winning Mafia franchise, our team are united by passion for rich narrative storytelling, cinematic presentation and AAA craft. Job Summary As a Senior Gameplay & Animation Engineer you will set a high bar for code quality and a passion for gameplay and animation. In this role, you will own and continue the development of our key gameplay and animation systems, you will extend and maintain the code of our technology, tools, and pipelines, working closely with the animators, character artists, designers, and programmers to help develop spectacular gameplay features for our games. Prototyping and coding gameplay and animation features Work closely and constructively wi

Reporting to Lead Gameplay Designer Job Title Senior AI Designer Department Game Design/Scripting Location Brighton Who We Are Hangar 13 is an internal 2K development studio that creates influential AAA video game experiences across all major platforms. You enjoy analyzing AI and Player behaviours and want to create novel gameplay experiences. What You’ll Be Doing: Own the feature development, design, and implementation of complex AI behaviors and systems for both combat and non-combat NPCs, from prototype through shipping Design and implement new character archetypes and their associated abilities and logic, ensuring they fit the game's vision and offer novel gameplay experiences Drive cross-discipline collaboration within feature pods (Engineering, Animation, Gameplay) to implement, tune, and balance AI systems and player encounters Ensure player clarity by designing behaviors that cle

In this highly influential role, you will champion innovation, driving the adoption of cutting-edge technologies to ensure our games achieve world-class animation quality and responsiveness. You will serve as a technical authority on gameplay animation, solving the studio’s complex R&D challenges while collaborating with design, animation and engineering to establish future-proof pipelines. While not a people manager, you will inspire, mentor, and elevate the technical capabilities of the entire animation department. Duties and Responsibilities Architect and oversee the high-level design of gameplay animation systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and seamless integration across complex real-time systems.