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About the Role

Big Viking Games is hiring a Principal Engineer, Agentic Products & Workflows to build the systems that make an AI-first game studio real. This is a founding-level engineering seat at the center of our AI transformation. You will help architect and build the agentic platform, autonomous engineering workflows, AI-enabled content pipelines, review systems, integration layers, and observability infrastructure that allow agents to produce reliable, reviewable, production-grade output for live games. This role is for someone who is already building with agents, shipping systems, testing workflows, using AI coding tools daily, and developing opinions from real production experience. You will own verticals end to end: architecture, orchestration, data models, backend services, APIs, evaluation loops, human review surfaces, observability, quality controls, and the production workflows teams use every day. Your job is to build the infrastructure that makes agentic systems legible, reliable, recoverable, and trusted.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, test, and operate agentic systems that support AI-enabled game production, autonomous engineering, content workflows, and internal tools.
Own the agentic platform end to end, including orchestration primitives, workflow design, review loops, memory, evaluation, observability, and integration into live-game systems.
Choose and defend the right orchestration pattern for each problem, including sequential, parallel, swarm, planner-executor, tool-using, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
Build systems where agents can safely use tools, call APIs, interact with repositories, retrieve context, modify assets, generate structured outputs, and escalate when they should not proceed.
Design guardrails, validation layers, eval suites, review gates, approval flows, and recovery paths that keep autonomous output at production quality.
Build human-in-the-loop systems that preserve human judgment where it matters without turning every workflow into manual review.
Drive reliability and observability as a first-class product surface.
Ship against outcomes that matter: cost per asset, quality and rework rate, throughput, review speed, placement speed, escaped-defect rate, uptime, and production trust.
Translate ambiguous creative, operational, and engineering goals into clear specifications, scoped plans, and shipped systems.
Partner directly with creative AI, engineering, product, design, art, live operations, QA, and leadership to find the highest-leverage problems and solve them.
Make our codebases, tools, documentation, and workflows more legible to both humans and agents.
Set the engineering bar for agentic development at BVG through architecture, review standards, documentation, patterns, and mentorship.
Use AI coding agents as a core part of your daily workflow, directing them, reviewing their output, and building infrastructure that makes them more useful for everyone.
Help define a practical AI-first engineering culture focused on speed, quality, reliability, and measurable business impact.

Requirements

Substantial experience shipping and operating production software at scale.
Strong full stack engineering depth, ideally with TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, SQL, Postgres, APIs, backend services, queues, workers, and production web applications.
Experience owning products, platforms, or systems end to end, not just one layer of someone else’s stack.
Real experience building agentic systems, autonomous workflows, AI-enabled products, or production AI infrastructure.
Daily, fluent use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar tools as part of how you work.
Strong first-principles engineering judgment. You can defend your architecture choices without hiding behind a framework.
Experience with orchestration, tool use, task planning, state management, context management, retrieval, workflow reliability, and human review systems.
Experience building or operating evals, traces, guardrails, test harnesses, quality checks, or other systems that make AI output measurable and trustworthy.
Comfort with nondeterministic systems, ambiguous requirements, and failures that require deep investigation across unfamiliar stacks.
Strong product judgment and the ability to identify when generated output is wrong, incomplete, fragile, off-brand, unsafe, or subtly low quality.
A high bar for reliability, maintainability, observability, documentation, and developer experience.
Disciplined git, pull request, code review, testing, deployment, and production operations practices, whether the author is human or agent.
Ability to mentor other engineers, set patterns, and raise the technical bar around you.
High agency, high urgency, and a builder’s mindset. You move fast without confusing speed with sloppiness.
Agentic systems you have designed, built, shipped, or operated.
Practical fluency with AI coding agents and multi-agent workflows.
Understanding of model behavior, including context windows, retrieval failure modes, grounding gaps, hallucination patterns, calibration, prompt design, and spec design.
Experience with structured generation, tool calls, function calling, schema-constrained output, approval workflows, and automated review.
Experience with eval suites, regression tests, quality measurement, observability, and production monitoring for AI systems.
Clear judgment about where AI can automate work, where human review is required, and where quality cannot be compromised.
Systems that run when you are away from the keyboard and the instrumentation to trust them.
Evidence that other people’s output improved because of infrastructure, tools, workflows, or platforms you built.

Skills

TypeScript
Node.js
React
Next.js
SQL
Postgres
APIs
Backend services
Queues
Workers
Production web applications
Agentic systems
Autonomous workflows
AI-enabled products
Production AI infrastructure
AI coding agents
Orchestration
Tool use
Task planning
State management
Context management
Retrieval
Workflow reliability
Human review systems
Evals
Traces
Guardrails
Test harnesses
Quality checks
Generative AI
MCP
OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
Vercel AI SDK
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
LangChain
Tool orchestration
Agent memory
Multi-model routing
Background workers
Event-driven systems
Workflow engines
Durable execution
Internal tools for creative production
Game operations
Content pipelines
Asset generation
QA automation
Media workflows
Art
Animation
Asset pipelines
Flash
Animate
Creative tooling
Gaming
Live-service products
Virtual worlds
Social games
Free-to-play games
High-DAU consumer products
Observability tools
Distributed-systems reliability
Incident response
Cost telemetry
Production platform operations
Zero-to-one
Founding-engineer
Early-stage platform-building

Location

Canada

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Principal Engineer
Founding-level

Salary/Compensations

CAD $175,000 to $200,000

Benefits

Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation.
Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage.
Health and Wellness spending account.
15 vacation days.
10 wellness days.
A founding-level seat on the systems that will define how an AI-first game studio operates.
Exposure to live-service games, content production, game operations, internal platform development, and autonomous engineering workflows.
A high-ownership role with meaningful influence over how AI is adopted across the company.
A leadership team that is all-in on practical AI adoption, not performative AI theatre.
Employee Stock Option Plan

About the Company

Big Viking Games exists to make fans.
We are a profitable, independent Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long-standing online game communities.
Our flagship titles, YoWorld and FishWorld, have entertained millions of players over their lifetime.
These are enduring live-service virtual worlds with rich in-game economies, virtual goods, deep social interaction, and player communities measured in years, not sessions.
We are now rebuilding the company as an AI-first studio.
AI agents are already changing how we build, test, review, produce, and operate.
We believe a small team of exceptional builders, amplified by well-architected AI systems, can outperform teams many times larger.
This role exists to help prove that, operationalize it, and define what the next generation of game development looks like.

Equal Opportunity

Big Viking Games is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates.
We welcome applications from individuals of all abilities and will provide accommodations throughout the hiring process as needed.
If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please contact hr@bigvikinggames.com so we can work with you to support your needs.