We are the newest venture backed AAA games studio in London. Our founding team is a mix of AAA games experience and AI expertise with founders who have worked on games like GTA, Star Wars, Just Cause, Sleeping Dogs and more and developed cutting edge AI tech at DeepMind, Meta AI Research and more. We aim to be at the forefront of AI empowered games, bringing experiences to players that weren't previously possible and enabling a small team to deliver big titles.
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Principal Technical Designer
We’re looking for a Principal Technical Designer to join our team. You should have a passion for building and playing games and extensive, broad and deep understanding of the design and technical aspects of their creation.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the design team, contributing to the game design.
- Identify technical challenges and opportunities to innovate.
- Champion the use of generative AI to enhance rather than replace human creativity in the studio.
- Rapidly experiment and prototype to prove new features and gameplay.
- Support the engineering teams and help to devise truly innovative and new types of gameplay to our players.
- Mentor, coach and guide juniors in the studio.
- Use Unreal Engine 5 to design, whitebox, validate, iterate, and polish game worlds that deliver valuable experiences to players.
- Regularly play the game and provide constructive feedback to other members of the team.
Experience Wanted
- Shipped at least two prominent titles.
- Well developed communication skills.
- Boundless creativity and strong visual aesthetic.
- Strong critical and analytical thinking.
- Strong knowledge of game design, design theory, existing game mechanics, and how they interact with level design.
- Ability to learn new tools and workflows.
- A passion for games and for making games. With a wealth of knowledge across a wide range of games.
Bonus Points For
- Experience working on open world games.
- Shipped a title using Unreal Engine 5.
About Iconic Games
Iconic Games are a new AAA studio funded by venture capital and angel investors. Founded by veterans of AAA games and AI experts. We’re seeking to be the first adoptees and proponents of generative AI to allow a small team to dream bigger and deliver amazing experiences to our players. We’re a hybrid company that cares about it’s people. We have offices in London and most of the team come into the offices at least three times a week.
We offer all our employees:
- Equity, every employee owns part of the company
- Generous bonus scheme that sees game profit shared with the team
- Comprehensive health, vision and dental insurance
- 25 days a year paid holiday
- Contribution to pension scheme
- Hybrid flexible working
- An incredible collaborative team
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Senior Game Engineer
As one of the first engineers in a small but growing team you’ll have the opportunity to work across the game as we build the first proof of concept. You’ll be able to contribute not just technically but creatively too in a studio that doesn’t just talk about collaboration in job interviews. We value proactivity and as a senior engineer you’ll design and take game systems from concept to release as well as helping to shape engineering and company culture.
Responsibilities
- Working mainly in C++ to deliver game systems.
- Champion a strong and practical software engineering approach.
- Own complex initiatives spanning, leading from start to finish.
- Advocate for the adoption of AI in ways that help enhance human creativity, not replace it.
- Understand the full game dev process, and flexibly fill gaps.
- Collaborate with your cross-disciplinary peers. Communicate clearly both synchronously and asynchronously.
- Coach and mentor junior staff.
Experience Wanted
- Demonstrable C++ expertise.
- Worked on at least 3 shipped games.
- Ability to understand the technical requirements for the game and deliver them.
- Great communication. Comfortable specifying a task with designers, collaborating on a shared codebase with engineers, giving and receiving feedback.
- Understand when a rapid prototype is needed to quickly test an idea and when a system needs detailed planning and design.
- An understanding of the human elements of software engineering: empathy, compassion, and patience.
- A curiosity for learning new tools, technologies, and ways of working.
- A love of video games.
Bonus Points For
- Knowledge of multiple game systems and their potential advantages and pitfalls.
- Shipped titles on UE4/UE5.
- Worked on at least one open world title.
About Iconic Games
Iconic Games are a new AAA studio funded by venture capital and angel investors. Founded by veterans of AAA games and AI experts. We’re seeking to be the first adoptees and proponents of generative AI to allow a small team to dream bigger and deliver amazing experiences to our players. We’re a hybrid company that cares about it’s people. We have offices in London and most of the team come into the offices at least three times a week.
We offer all our employees:
- Equity, every employee owns part of the company
- Generous bonus scheme that sees game profit shared with the team
- Comprehensive health, vision and dental insurance
- 25 days a year paid holiday
- Contribution to pension scheme
- Hybrid flexible working
- An incredible collaborative team
APPLY AT HELLO@ICONICGAMES.AI
Game Designer
We’re looking for an Open World Designer to join our team in London. You will need boundless creativity to fill our game worlds with believable and exciting content, creating unforgettable gaming experiences for our players. You will be responsible for designing and implementing open-world environments that align with the game’s creative vision and technical requirements.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining the highest possible quality of open world content and fixing reported bugs.
- Champion a cohesive design vision that upholds the game’s pillars.
- Develop and oversee the rules and metrics for gameplay spaces.
- Cooperate with other departments.
- Create and maintaining documentation.
- Use Unreal Engine 5 to design, whitebox, validate, iterate, and polish game worlds that deliver valuable experiences to players.
- Regularly play the game and provide constructive feedback to other members of the team.
Experience Wanted
- Shipped at least two prominent titles.
- Well developed communication skills.
- Boundless creativity and strong visual aesthetic.
- Strong critical and analytical thinking.
- Strong knowledge of game design, design theory, existing game mechanics, and how they interact with level design.
- Ability to learn new tools and workflows.
- A passion for games and for making games. With a wealth of knowledge across a wide range of games.
Bonus Points For
- Experience working on open world games.
- Shipped a title using Unreal Engine 5.
About Iconic Games
Iconic Games are a new AAA studio funded by venture capital and angel investors. Founded by veterans of AAA games and AI experts. We’re seeking to be the first adoptees and proponents of generative AI to allow a small team to dream bigger and deliver amazing experiences to our players. We’re a hybrid company that cares about it’s people. We have offices in London and most of the team come into the offices at least three times a week.
We offer all our employees:
- Equity, every employee owns part of the company
- Generous bonus scheme that sees game profit shared with the team
- Comprehensive health, vision and dental insurance
- 25 days a year paid holiday
- Contribution to pension scheme
- Hybrid flexible working
- An incredible collaborative team
APPLY AT HELLO@ICONICGAMES.AI
Principal Technical Artist
As the Principal Technical Artist you will be responsible for analyzing game content and levels from a performance standpoint and setting budgets, standards, and best practices for cutting edge real-time projects resulting in the highest quality content running at target framerates on target hardware. Everyone who joins Iconic becomes an owner of the studio with a meaningful percentage of company stock, giving you real skin in the game!
Responsibilities
- Drive improvements and maintain the toolchain for art asset creation and optimization that meet the team’s needs.
- Innovate techniques in asset creation that get the best visual results from the target platform.
- Instigate high-level art-related decisions throughout the development cycle regarding art-related project risks.
- Train other artists in best practices, tools and processes.
- Optimize scenes and assets and find creative solutions to ensure an optimal player experience.
- Research and implement technical improvements to our pipeline.
- Advocate for the adoption of AI in ways that help enhance human creativity, not replace it.
- Provide technical tools and guidance to ensure art assets meet performance and quality standards.
- Coach and mentor junior staff.
Experience Wanted
- Shipped at least one title as a technical artist.
- Worked on at least three AAA titles.
- Strong foundational artistic skills.
- A portfolio of work demonstrating artistic direction and high competency creating asset for AAA games.
- Strong communication skills.
Bonus Points For
- Shipped titles on UE4/UE5.
- Worked on at least one open world title.
About Iconic Games
Iconic Games are a new AAA studio funded by venture capital and angel investors. Founded by veterans of AAA games and AI experts. We’re seeking to be the first adoptees and proponents of generative AI to allow a small team to dream bigger and deliver amazing experiences to our players. We’re a hybrid company that cares about it’s people. We have offices in London and most of the team come into the offices at least three times a week.
We offer all our employees:
- Equity, every employee owns part of the company
- Generous bonus scheme that sees game profit shared with the team
- Comprehensive health, vision and dental insurance
- 25 days a year paid holiday
- Contribution to pension scheme
- Hybrid flexible working
- An incredible collaborative team
APPLY AT HELLO@ICONICGAMES.AI
Principal Animator
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with the Creative Director, Art Director and wider team to define the animation style of our game.
- Set a clear animation vision as well as quality targets, leading with hands-on craft and providing feedback and notes as needed.
- Embrace AI as a way to enhance human creativity, not replace it.
- Explore and define animated action sequences with cinematic camera work.
- Create animation assets for highly iterative gameplay prototypes.
- Develop and refine Style and Process Guides
- Constantly champion animation as a way to enhance the player’s experience, always seeking new, innovative ways to push the envelope.
- Coach and mentor junior staff.
Experience Wanted
- Shipped at least one title as a animator.
- Worked on at least three AAA titles.
- Strong foundational artistic skills.
- A portfolio of work demonstrating artistic direction and high competency creating asset for AAA games.
- Strong communication skills.
Bonus Points For
- Shipped titles on UE4/UE5.
- Worked on at least one open world title.
About Iconic Games
Iconic Games are a new AAA studio funded by venture capital and angel investors. Founded by veterans of AAA games and AI experts. We’re seeking to be the first adoptees and proponents of generative AI to allow a small team to dream bigger and deliver amazing experiences to our players. We’re a hybrid company that cares about it’s people. We have offices in London and most of the team come into the offices at least three times a week.
We offer all our employees:
- Equity, every employee owns part of the company
- Generous bonus scheme that sees game profit shared with the team
- Comprehensive health, vision and dental insurance
- 25 days a year paid holiday
- Contribution to pension scheme
- Hybrid flexible working
- An incredible collaborative team
APPLY AT HELLO@ICONICGAMES.AI
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