Absurd Ventures

About the Company

Absurd Ventures is a storytelling-driven entertainment company creating original video games, live-action and animated film and television, audio fiction, books, comic books, and more. Absurd Ventures’ original properties include the sci-fi thriller universe “A Better Paradise”, the crime fiction universe “American Caper,” and the comedy satire universe “Absurdaverse”. The company has already launched a chart-topping audio fiction series set in the “A Better Paradise” universe and will be debuting an American Caper comics series and Absurdaverse animation projects in 2025. Founded by Dan Houser, Absurd Ventures is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional studio offices in Marin, CA.  Storytelling. Philanthropy. Ultraviolence.

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Absurd Ventures

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Machine Learning Engineer

Job Description

**Job Title:** Machine Learning Engineer **Role Summary:** Develop and integrate machine learning solutions to enhance game development workflows and real-time gameplay. Collaborate with gameplay engineers, designers, artists, and producers to create adaptive in‑game systems and tools, driving innovation in content generation and player experience. **Expectations:** - Define and execute an ML strategy aligned with product goals. - Educate cross‑functional teams on ML capabilities and best practices. - Deliver performant models suitable for real‑time inference on GPU/CPU constrained environments. **Key Responsibilities:** - Design, train, and deploy LLMs and generative models for procedural content, adaptive NPC behavior, and player customization. - Build and maintain pipelines that ingest gameplay telemetry, train models, and push updates to production. - Create internal ML‑powered tools to streamline art, animation, audio, and production pipelines within Unreal Engine. - Prototype and test ML‑driven features in partnership with design and gameplay teams. - Monitor and optimize model performance and scalability across target platforms. **Required Skills:** - 3+ years of hands‑on machine learning experience. - Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow). - Strong C++ programming skills and modern software engineering practices. - Experience with training/deploying models for real‑time inference under GPU/CPU constraints. - Solid understanding of supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning, and generative models. - Familiarity with Unreal Engine toolset (Blueprints, plugins, editor scripting) is a plus. **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.

Santa monica, United states

On site

Junior

12-01-2026