Destiny studio Bungie has posted a job listing for a Generative AI engineer who can ācollaborate with artists, designers, engineers, and more.ā
The inexorable rise of AI as a games industry tool continues. Around a week ago, Bungie ā the developer of Halo, Destiny, Destiny 2 and the upcoming Marathon ā posted a job listing for a Generative AI lead tools engineer. The successful applicant would be expected to ācollaborate with artists, designers, engineers, and more to propose and build solutions that improve their work.ā
Bungieās position was originally posted on its careers website ā as spotted by TheGamePost ā but was later deleted. Interestingly, the post still exists on LinkedIn, although the company warns that itās āNo longer accepting applications.ā
āAs a Lead Tools Engineer in Bungieās Central Technology organization, you will partner with area experts and drive the development of software that allows our tools and systems to interact with GenAI models,ā the post reads. āIn this role you will collaborate with teams across all of Bungie, empowering the studio’s developers and reducing toil by giving them access to powerful AI tools.ā
Bungie is far from the only studio to start integrating AI into its development pipeline. In May, it emerged that Blizzard has its own generative art tool, Blizzard Diffusion, which is trained on the house style of the studioās own games, such as Diablo and World of Warcraft.
āPrepare to be amazed,ā wrote Blizzardās chief design officer Allen Adhem in an email to employees seen by the New York Times. āWe are on the brink of a major evolution in how we build and manage our games.ā
It isnāt clear exactly what games the Generative AI engineer would be working on at Bungie, and thereās no suggestion that itās part of a push to, say, replace flesh-and-blood artists with AI-based tools like Midjourney or ChatGPT, which is the kind of fear that has triggered the writersā and actors strikes in Hollywood of late. But Bungieās posting is a further sign both of the studioās interest in AI (it advertised for a machine learning director a year ago) and the wider industryās embrace of the technology. Only time will tell where it will all lead.