Senior Software Engineer (ML/Game Development)

Gungho is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (ML/Game Development) for a full-time position based in Redondo Beach, CA. This role is intended for an experienced engineer who wants to apply advanced machine learning techniques within software systems that support game development workflows and player-facing experiences.

What This Role Involves

As a Senior Software Engineer (ML/Game Development) at Gungho in Redondo Beach, CA, you will bridge core software engineering practices with practical machine-learning solutions tailored to game-related products and services. The work centers on designing, implementing, and refining models and services that improve gameplay systems, content pipelines, analytics, and real-time decision features while maintaining high standards of reliability, performance, and code quality expected of senior-level engineering work.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, build, train, evaluate, and productionize machine-learning models that address needs common to game development such as player behavior prediction, content recommendation, balancing support, or intelligent NPC and systems logic.
• Write clean, efficient, well-tested production code and integrate ML components into larger software architectures used by game and platform teams.
• Own features end-to-end from problem framing and data consideration through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, product managers, and data specialists to translate product requirements into technical solutions.
• Review code, mentor more junior engineers, and help raise the bar for engineering practices, model-serving reliability, and technical decision-making.
• Profile and optimize system and model performance for latency, throughput, and scalability appropriate to interactive and large-scale game environments.
• Document designs, share knowledge, and contribute to technical roadmaps for ML-enabled capabilities within the organization.

Skills & Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience as a senior software engineer with hands-on machine learning work applied to interactive, real-time, or entertainment software domains.
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages commonly used for both systems and ML work (examples include C++, Python, or similar) and comfort writing production-quality services and libraries.
• Practical knowledge of machine-learning techniques, model evaluation, experiment design, and common frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or equivalent toolchains.
• Solid foundation in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems concepts, APIs, testing, version control, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience building or integrating models into live or near-real-time systems where performance and reliability matter.
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and work effectively across multidisciplinary product teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; advanced background in ML or game technology is a plus but not strictly required.

Working at Gungho

Gungho is hiring for this role and offers a supportive team environment for engineers who want to grow their craft while contributing meaningful work in Redondo Beach, CA.

Next Steps

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