Engineer

About Forward

Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

About the Work

Keywords: AI, python, node

Budget: $75-$100/h (USD)

Hours per week: 40

Term: 12 months with possibility of extension

Location: Canada preferred but open to latam + US too

Working hours: 6 hours overlap with ET

Start date: September

Company stage: Public

Context:

We're working with a gaming studio comprised of 7 or so folks that's contracted with a FAANG company. Their focus is purely on researching/prototype games and game mechanics. Anything they discover that "works" gets shipped off to another team to be re-written / incorporated into other games so they're not shipping anything for public consumption.

Their focus so far has mostly been on unity development though they're branching out into prototyping things that would involve AI agents and more traditional backend web apis and looking for an engineer to help them with this. Nice to have would be game dev xp, mobile xp, FE web xp, embedded xp but none of those are requirements.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have experience building AI agents
  • You have backend experience
  • You have typescript experience
  • You have python experience
  • You have 8+ years xp

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