Technical Director, Genai - Games

Netflix Netflix · Big Tech · Los Angeles, CA +2 · Data & Insights

Technical Director for GenAI in the Games organization at Netflix, responsible for driving the engineering strategy, leading teams, developing AI-native gameplay mechanics, and scaling core GenAI capabilities like model inference and fine-tuning pipelines for player experiences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the overall engineering strategy for GenAI in Games.
  2. Support Gen AI across our portfolio and studios, both in the creation of new experiences and improving our workflows and pipelines.
  3. Lead an organization of engineers, technical designers, and technical artists to experiment and innovate on game-aligned collaborations and exploratory bets.
  4. Engage with game teams to develop prototype features and AI-native gameplay mechanics, ensuring technical viability.
  5. Collaborate with our engineering and platform teams to build robust solutions and scale core capabilities (e.g., model inference, fine-tuning pipelines, data infrastructure, etc).

Skills

Required

  • Games industry experience
  • comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end game development lifecycle
  • passionate about games and the future of interactive entertainment
  • direct involvement in shipping multiple titles
  • Proven experience leveraging AI/ML in a product environment
  • leading or significantly contributing to Generative AI initiatives (LLMs, diffusion, multimodal systems)
  • Familiarity with AI/ML fundamentals
  • Deep understanding of the Gen AI ecosystem
  • comfortable navigating from research prototypes to production-ready systems

Nice to have

  • technical designers
  • technical artists

What the JD emphasized

  • shipping multiple titles
  • leading or significantly contributing to Generative AI initiatives
  • Deep understanding of the Gen AI ecosystem
  • navigating from research prototypes to production-ready systems

Other signals

  • driving GenAI initiatives
  • supporting novel gameplay experiences
  • leading engineers and technical artists
  • developing prototype features and AI-native gameplay mechanics
  • partnering with external researchers
  • staying on the forefront of AI research
  • collaborating with engineering and platform teams to build robust solutions and scale core capabilities