Conversational AI Engineer – Game Prototype

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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🟡 Mid-level

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🗣️ LLM Engineer

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Endless Studios

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Marketing • Healthcare

Endless Studios is a youth-centric game-making studio dedicated to fostering a digitally empowered future for students. The studio facilitates collaboration between budding creators and professionals, providing an environment that mimics a real-world game studio experience. This approach not only promotes technical skills like coding and design but also hones essential soft skills such as leadership and problem-solving. As part of E-Line Media, Endless Studios emphasizes the development of games that spark curiosity and offer learning opportunities through innovative game-based platforms. By committing to the growth and empowerment of young creators, Endless Studios aims to prepare the next generation for success in a digital economy.

📋 Description

• Design and build the end-to-end voice conversation pipeline between players and NPCs • Evaluate and integrate speech-to-text, large language model, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech technologies • Evaluate approaches to conversational memory, context, personality, and NPC behavior • Prototype real-time conversational interactions and optimize latency, quality, reliability, and cost • Determine which components should run on-device versus in the cloud • Build and integrate the resulting systems into Unity/C# • Establish an architecture that can evolve from a prototype into a production system • Work closely with game design and engineering teams to define technical needs and create natural, responsive player interactions • Choose the technology stack and justify choices with measured performance, cost, and failure-rate data • Design and build a working prototype of the conversational AI system in Unity

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • At least one shipped project built in Unity with C# (a released game, app or production tool); applicants must provide a link • A working end-to-end voice conversation loop built personally: speech in, language model, speech out; applicants must provide a link or demo • Ability to choose and justify technologies using measured response time, cost per conversation minute, and failure rate • Nice to have: game AI, NPC systems or interactive entertainment experience • Nice to have: conversational memory and agent architectures • Nice to have: on-device speech or language models • Nice to have: multilingual or language-focused AI systems • Applications must include a resume and cover letter, a link to a personally built voice or conversational system, and short answers about latency, on-device/cloud architecture, and NPC memory • Shortlisted candidates must walk through their demo on a 30-minute call

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential opportunity to continue working with the team beyond the initial prototype stage