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AI Procedural Level Design Generator

Leah Nguyen

Freelance · Job · Los_Angeles

About the role

Hand-crafted game levels take weeks to build and players consume them in hours. Procedural generation creates infinite content, but most procedurally generated levels feel random rather than designed — they lack the intentional pacing, difficulty curves, and spatial storytelling that make hand-crafted levels memorable. Our level generation system bridges this gap using learned design heuristics from 10,000 human-designed levels. It generates layouts that follow design principles: safe areas near spawn points, increasing challenge density toward objectives, sight lines that guide players naturally, and resource placement that rewards exploration without breaking difficulty balance. This is a 6-month freelance engagement, 25-30 hours per week. You'll work with our game design consultant who defines what "good level design" means in quantifiable terms and our evaluation team who playtest generated levels against hand-crafted baselines.

Responsibilities

  • Build level generation models trained on human-designed level databases
  • Encode design heuristics: pacing, difficulty curves, spatial flow
  • Design playability evaluation metrics that correlate with player enjoyment
  • Generate levels for different game genres with genre-appropriate design rules
  • Compare generated levels against hand-crafted baselines in playtests
  • Document generation parameters for game designer customization

Requirements

  • 3+ years in ML with procedural generation, RL, or game AI experience
  • Understanding of game design principles: pacing, balance, flow
  • Strong Python and PyTorch skills
  • Experience with spatial or graph-based generative models
  • Interest in game design and player experience

Benefits

  • Fully remote freelance role
  • Competitive hourly rate
  • Access to proprietary level design dataset
  • Flexible schedule
  • Potential for ongoing game AI projects

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Language

English

Salary Range

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