
Full-stack Engineer (AI application focused) - China at thatgamecompany (Shanghai, China)
thatgamecompany· Shanghai, China·
Role details
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Skills
LangChainDifyn8nLangGraphMicrosoft AutoGenRAGVector DatabasesRetrieval-Augmented GenerationLLMGoogle GeminiOpenAI ChatGPTAlibaba Qwen
Summary
The Full-Stack Engineer will deliver AI-driven solutions to streamline operations and enhance player interaction. Responsibilities include designing and managing enterprise agentic-AI orchestration platforms, building automation applications, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-value AI capabi...
Job description
Sky has an amazing and vibrant community of socially minded players, and we are tirelessly working on solutions to deepen player interaction and create lasting friendships. We are seeking an experienced Full Stack Engineer to deliver solutions for solving in-game and internal team challenges
Responsibilities
- Work with the ITS team to deliver AI-driven solutions aligned with the Enterprise AI strategy for streamlining day-to-day operations
- Design and manage the enterprise agentic-AI orchestration platform, keeping UX, security, and governance in mind.
- Partner with Publishing, Infra, IT, Legal, and other functions to identify, prioritize, and ship high-value AI capabilities—agents, automations, copilots—from pilot to scale.
- Build and nurture a cross-functional Community of Practice around enterprise AI adoption, including training and enablement.
- Collaborate with fellow developers to plan, design, build, and unit-test applications.
Required Skills
- Familiarity with agent frameworks (LangChain, Dify, n8n, etc.) and orchestration tools (LangGraph, Microsoft AutoGen, etc.).
- Familiarity with knowledge-search tech: RAG, vector DBs, retrieval-augmented generation. Experience in LLM landscape such as Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, Alibaba Qwen—knowing model advantage, token limits, latency, and cost.
- Experience in automation and web application development
- 2+ years of hands-on production experience with TypeScript, Python, or similar AI-related languages.
- Experience with the Git version control system.
- Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.
- Fluent in spoken English and Chinese.
Preferred Skills
- Have game development experience.
- Have image recognition & XR development experience Experience in mobile client and console platform development.
- Experience designing and building enterprise AI applications for production use.
- Experience optimizing token cost, such as caching, batching, and cutting the fluff. Knowing about multimodal and algorithms such as CLIP, LLAVA, VALL-E."
- Knowledge of TRiSM (Trust, Risk, and Security Management) frameworks for AI.
We look forward to meeting you!
Why work at thatgamecompany
- Culture: The studio describes itself as “compassionate, creative” and values “integrity and personal growth within an environment of intense collaboration and experimentation.” Employee rating on LinkedIn: 4.2/5.0 (11 reviews), with Culture score 4.3, Work-Life 4.2, Compensation 4.2, Career 4.1.
- Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy: Not explicitly stated in provided sources, but headquarters in Santa Monica, California is a physical studio. The company previously planned a second studio in SF Bay Area (cancelled due to COVID) and now operates distributed across 15 countries, suggesting flexible/remote options are possible.
- Notable Perks & Engineering Culture: Emphasis on “making magic” and pushing artistic boundaries; tech stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Protobuf, Tableau, microservices, and GitHub. Employees come from top entertainment/tech companies (Pixar, Blizzard, Riot Games, Amazon, Unity, etc.), indicating a high-caliber peer group.
- Growth Opportunity: With 24 active job postings (including Engineering, AI, Art, Marketing, Data) and a yearly hiring trend +4.3%, the studio is expanding. Roles such as Senior Data Analyst, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, and 3D Environment Artist signal opportunities to work on flagship products.
- Mission-driven work: Opportunity to contribute to games that aim to make a positive impact on players’ lives and expand the emotional range of the medium.