Full Stack AI Engineer

Job Title:

Full Stack Engineer, GenAI

Requisition ID:

R026756

Job Description:

Your Mission

Our team is expanding to build practical, production-ready generative AI systems that support the creation of interactive entertainment. We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to help transform emerging AI capabilities into scalable tools, services, and workflows that empower game studios and creative teams.

This role reports directly to the Senior Director of AI Strategy and works closely with AI researchers, engineers, product teams, and game studios across the organization. As a hands-on builder, you will help bring new AI-driven capabilities into production, building systems that support developers, artists, designers, and operational teams across the game development ecosystem.

You will contribute to high-impact projects that combine generative AI, traditional machine learning, and modern software engineering to power next-generation tools, content workflows, and studio platforms

This is an onsite/hybrid position in Santa Monica, CA, Sherman Oaks, or Vancouver, BC.

What You Bring To The Table

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain full stack applications that integrate generative AI and machine learning capabilities into studio tools, developer platforms, and production workflows.
• Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that power AI- driven systems used across game development and studio operations.
• Build intuitive, responsive interfaces that allow developers, artists, and creative teams to interact effectively with AI-powered tools.
• Rapidly prototype and experiment with new AI-driven capabilities, validating ideas and evolving successful prototypes into reliable production systems.
• Apply a range of AI and machine learning techniques, selecting the right approaches for real-world production environments and creative workflows.
• Implement and integrate AI systems using modern orchestration approaches and emerging standards such as Model Context Protocol to support modular, extensible AI workflows.
• Partner cross-functionally with research, platform, product, security, and studio engineering teams to translate emerging capabilities into practical tools and services.
• Own systems end to end, including architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

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• Contribute to shared platforms, tooling, and engineering practices that accelerate AI adoption across studios and development teams.
• Help ensure AI systems are reliable, performant, secure, and responsibly deployed in production environments
  
  

Player Profile

Experience

Minimum Requirements:

• Strong proficiency with Python and JavaScript or TypeScript, with 5+ years of experience building backend services and modern frontend applications.
• Experience designing and shipping full stack software in production environments, with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Experience integrating AI into real-world applications, including model inference, orchestration approaches such as tool calling, retrieval augmented systems, or protocols like Model Context Protocol.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or similar environments, including deploying and operating services at scale
  
  

Knowledge & Skills

• Working knowledge of machine learning fundamentals and applied AI techniques, including familiarity with deep learning approaches such as convolutional neural networks and generative models.
• Comfort working with containerization and modern infrastructure practices such as Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud managed services.
  
  

Key Attributes

• Ability to operate in fast moving, ambiguous environments, balancing experimentation with delivery and iteration.

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• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical partners.
  
  

Experience

Extra Points:

• Experience working in the game industry or adjacent digital entertainment fields such as streaming, media platforms, or interactive content.
• Experience with computer vision, multimodal systems, or 3D representations.
• Experience building internal platforms, developer tools, or systems used by large engineering or creative teams
• Familiarity with C or C++.
  
  

Knowledge & Skills

• Familiarity with game development pipelines, studio tooling, or creative production workflows.
• Exposure to MLOps practices, monitoring, or operating machine learning systems in production.
• Familiarity with C or C++.
  
  

Your Platform

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., and in Canada, England, Ireland and Japan.

Most of our teams are comprised of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our talented engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/.

Our World

At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We’re driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero®. As a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, our “press start” is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative, fun, thrilling, and engaging entertainment experiences.

We’re not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we’re forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate, creative, and diverse teams within our organization.

We’re in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater — this could be your opportunity to level up.

Ready to Activate Your Future?

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Rewards

We Provide a Suite Of Benefits That Promote Physical, Emotional And Financial Well-being For ‘Every World’ - We’ve Got Our Employees Covered! Subject To Eligibility Requirements, The Company Offers Comprehensive Benefits Including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
  
  

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $77,500.00 - $143,376.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.