Middle AI Game Designer / Game Prototyper

Remote | 🕐 Full-time | 🎮 Mobile Gamedev

A small product team that creates mobile word/puzzle games is looking for a specialist for rapid prototyping of new game mechanics using AI.

A great growth opportunity for someone with a solid foundation, independence, and a desire to develop at the intersection of game design, product, and AI. AI here is not just for show, but the primary working tool.

Responsibilities:

• Take a product idea and a ready-made game template, think through the implementation, and bring it to a working prototype
• Develop word/puzzle mechanics: word search and matching, working with letters, levels
• Integrate mechanics into the product template
• Test and iterate prototypes: evaluate the game experience, understand what works and what needs improvement
• Propose your own solutions and new hypotheses
• Set up basic balance and rewards
• Write and refine code using AI tools

There will be no detailed technical specifications for each step. We need someone who can take a raw idea, devise an implementation, build a prototype, and independently figure out what needs tweaking.

What's important:

• Approximately 2–3 years of experience
• Understanding of word/puzzle mechanics and level design principles
• Technical foundation and understanding of the connection between mechanics and code
• Ability to work with an idea or hypothesis, not just follow a ready-made technical specification
• Independence and the ability to critically evaluate your own results
• Willingness to actively use AI tools

AI prototyping experience will be a plus, but with a strong foundation, the team is ready to train. Knowledge of specific stacks like Unity or C++ is not required.