Senior Game Engines Engineer, Modulate
$150k
3+ days a week in office (Somerville, MA)
In-game voice chat moderation
Job no longer available
In-game voice chat moderation
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$150k
3+ days a week in office (Somerville, MA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a safer more inclusive voice chat experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building in at least one major game engine
- Experience working at a game studio OR shipping a finished game on your own
- Ability to learn new technical skills/languages/frameworks without formal instruction
Desirable
- Experience programming in Unity or Unreal Engine
- Experience developing for game consoles
- Experience working at at a larger game studio or game engine developer
- Experience with low-level audio programming
- Experience with machine learning, particularly around inference or optimization
- Interest in working directly with customers to support integrations
- Interest in both novel feature development AND exploration of new environments and platforms
What the job involves
- Write code used by some of the largest studios in the gaming industry to process millions of hours of audio every month
- Design and build integrations that enable more games to protect their communities
- Develop using the latest technology in gaming consoles, VR headsets, mobile phones and PCs
- Collaborate closely with our other engineers as well as our QA engineers and account managers
- Developing new features for our game engine plugins which integrate our C++ SDKs into popular game engines
- Expanding our plugin support to new game engines, voice chat frameworks, and platforms
- Applying your knowledge of game industry conventions and best practices to make our plugins feel familiar and easy to use for game developers
- Collaborating with domain experts in machine learning and real time audio programming to bring research algorithms into production
- Peer reviewing designs and code with the other engineers on the team
Our take
Anyone who has played a multiplayer online game knows it can be a free-for-all when it comes to toxic, hate-filled, abusive, and ultimately harmful speech. Modulate is attempting to take on in-game toxic speech, and even potentially predatory behavior, with its AI-powered software ToxMod.
Despite the monumental task at hand, where chat moderation risks creating an over-policed online community, Modulate asserts that its AI can distinguish between friendly banter and sinister chat. ToxMod boasts users like PokerStars VR, Rec Room, and Gun Raiders, with the company hinting at undisclosed high-profile customers. A strategic mode towards Metaverse-based game studios aligns well with the booming growth of the Metaverse gaming industry, projected at around 40% annual growth.
In a notable development, Modulate has forged a partnership with Activision Blizzard. As part of this collaboration, Modulate's work with Activision has led to real improvements in Call of Duty (from a huge 50% drop in toxic voice chat exposure to increased player engagement and retention). Byt proving that AI-driven moderation can scale without disrupting gampole, Modulate is really setting a new standard for online safety. And with growing interest from other studios and industries, the company is well set eto expand its impact and help shape a more respectful future for multiplayer gaming.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$30m
SERIES A
Apr 2022
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $66m
Company HQ
Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Leadership
Mike Pappas
(Co-Founder & CEO)Began their career as a Technology Associate at Bridgewater Associates before joining spend and travel management software company Lola as a Software Architect.
Carter Huffman
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Software Engineer at Dimensional Insight before co-founding Modulate. Prior to this they spent two years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory working as part of the Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy group.
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