Game Design Expert - AI Trainer

We are looking for an innovative Gaming Expert - AI Trainer to play a crucial role in guiding our AI models to understand and generate design-driven, creative content. Your expertise in game design and strategic thinking will be essential in bridging the gap between creative vision and technical execution, shaping the future of AI creativity.

Key Responsibilities:

- Create detailed evaluation scenarios that challenge AI systems within dynamic, real-world gaming environments, emphasizing adaptive learning, realism, and player impact.

- Research, define, and validate optimal AI behaviors using game analytics, community insights, case studies, and authoritative gaming sources.

- Conduct in-depth, iterative testing of AI components such as NPC behaviors, procedural storytelling, and in-game decision systems to identify failure points and areas for improvement.

- Develop comprehensive scoring rubrics and behavioral matrices to consistently assess AI performance in terms of creativity, believability, responsiveness, and strategic execution.

- Report findings through detailed feedback loops to guide AI model improvements and inform future design decisions.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Game Design, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- Deep understanding of gameplay mechanics, player psychology, and AI's role in modern gaming experiences.

- Strong analytical skills with experience in structured evaluations, user testing, or QA analysis.

- Familiarity with AI models used in games, such as behavior trees, reinforcement learning, and procedural content generation.

- Passion for games, both playing and analyzing them from a systems and player-experience perspective.

- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in AI model training or development.

- Familiarity with business-relevant content generation.

- Background in creative design or artistic direction.

About RYZ Labs:

RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.

Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.

At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion, and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.

Our values and what to expect:

- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.

- Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.

- Ownership -  step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility. 

- Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone who interacts with RYZ with respect.

- Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less

- Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way. 

- Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, and our expectations. The status quo is not good enough and never should be.