Principal RD Scientist on Bots Behaviors HFNB
Principal RD Scientist on Bots Behaviors HFNB
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Job Description
As Principal R&D Scientist on the topic of bots and behaviors youll act as an innovation leader a recognized domain expert who is accountable to articulate a research vision and execute a research portfolio that is coherent ambitious multidisciplinary and impacts concretely our core business.
The position is geographically based in Ubisoft Bordeaux within the French department of La Forge (Ubisoft La Forge Ubisoft).
As a valued team member you will
- Lead strategic research projects evaluations innovation novel and emerging computer science technologies trends and best practices applicable to behaviors of bots and NPCs in game creations: player experience and creator assistance are two equally important sides to consider.
- Explore innovative methods to accelerate production workflows with significant impact.
- Collaborate extensively with internal and external leaders and specialists.
- Provide strategic advice and suggestions for designing implementing operating and optimizing production workflows tailored to meet the needs of new generations of games.
Daily missions
- Lead and coordinate the research team bots & behaviors (explorations research directions and projects internships cooperations with production and other technology departments within Ubisoft on industrializations) with its researchers students academic partners. Build update and communicate its roadmap aka the bots & behaviors cartography. Make the link with La forge research engineers.
- Supervise directly current French PhD students (on transfer learning on human like behaviors) and future French PhD students contribute to supervision of worldwide PhD students or PhD interns.
- Identify and explore relevant academic concepts and lead their transformation into practical game technologies and production workflows.
- Extensively collaborate with internal and external multidisciplinary teams to deliver ambitious prototypes in game demonstrators and ensure their adoption from an end user perspective.
- Influence other departments roadmaps for designing implementing operating and optimizing production workflows for incoming and future games.
- Share accessible insights with a variety of stakeholders including upper management.
Qualifications :
Education
PhD in relevant scientific domains
Relevant experience
- 10 years experience or more and indepth expertise related to the position.
- Background in applied or basic research (in industry or university) ability to conduct research using standard experimental methodologies.
- Handson experience with cuttingedge techniques such as deep learning reinforcement learning algorithmic foundations or optimization.
- Contributions to public research (ex. papers published in relevant venues such as NeurIPS ICML ACL SIGGRAPH).
- Supervision of PhDs or other researchers HDR (Habilitation Diriger des Recherches) or equivalent is an advantage.
- Demonstrated experience in transforming research into operational success.
Skills and Knowledge
- Technical expertise:
- Good knowledge of software engineering constraints.
- Recognized academic contributions (publication conferences etc.).
- Curiosity critical thinking and resourcefulness (youll have access to worldclass data game engines and experts).
- Innovative mindset looking for solutions to realworld problems in the video game industry.
- Speaking French is a plus.
- A collaborative and user centric team player with excellent organizational interpersonal and communication skills.
- Oriented towards business/company values.
Skills and competencies show up in different forms and can be based on different experiences thats why we strongly encourage you to apply even though you may not have all the requirements listed above.
Informations supplmentaires :
Contract: Permanent contract
Location: role based in Bordeaux France
Remote: hybrid model
Recruitment process:
- First call with the Recruiter
- Interview with the Development Director
- Final interview with the team
If your application is not retained you will receive a negative answer.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
