What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Game Lead (Unreal Engine 5) position at The Alliance for Virtuous Intelligence?
Early-Stage Equity Position | Technical Leadership Role
Vision & Role
We're developing an ambitious game with established narrative and design foundations. As our Senior Technical Game Lead, you'll own the technical implementation while collaborating with the founder/creative director who handles story, design, and creative direction. This is an early-stage opportunity with meaningful equity, ideal for a technical expert who wants to focus on technical excellence.
Time commitment is flexible and to be discussed.
Technical Leadership Scope
Share Your Technical Journey, Including
Vision & Role
We're developing an ambitious game with established narrative and design foundations. As our Senior Technical Game Lead, you'll own the technical implementation while collaborating with the founder/creative director who handles story, design, and creative direction. This is an early-stage opportunity with meaningful equity, ideal for a technical expert who wants to focus on technical excellence.
Time commitment is flexible and to be discussed.
Technical Leadership Scope
- Development of technical architecture and implementation
- Technical decision-making and leadership within established project vision
- Leadership of development workflow and processes
- Direct collaboration with founder on technical execution
- Independence to drive technical excellence
- Proven track record shipping games with Unreal Engine
- Expert-level C programming and system architecture skills
- Deep understanding of Blueprint visual scripting best practices
- Strong background in performance optimization and scalability
- Experience with modern game development pipelines
- Technical team leadership experience
- Architect and implement robust game systems
- Build efficient technical pipelines and workflows
- Optimize performance and maintain technical excellence
- Transform creative vision into technical reality
- Drive key technical decisions
- Set technical standards and best practices
- 5 years of professional game development experience
- Multiple shipped titles using Unreal Engine
- Strong portfolio demonstrating technical excellence
- Experience leading technical implementation of major features
- Passion for creating efficient, maintainable game systems
- Ability to balance technical ideals with practical delivery
- Significant equity compensation package
- Direct collaboration with founder
- Clear separation of technical and creative responsibilities
- Future technical team leadership opportunities
- Flexible remote work arrangements
- Salary aligned with funding milestones
- Comprehensive game design documentation
- Established creative direction and narrative
- Clear project scope and milestone planning
- Strong vision with room for technical innovation
- Patent-pending game mechanics ready for implementation
- Thrives in technically focused leadership roles
- Values ownership of technical execution
- Enjoys collaboration while respecting established project vision
- Motivated by equity upside and technical challenges
- Comfortable with early-stage environment
Share Your Technical Journey, Including
- Games you've shipped and your technical role in them
- Most significant technical challenges you've overcome
- Experience leading technical implementation
- Your approach to balancing creativity with technical constraints
- Vision for technical excellence in game development