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I am a senior AI engineer and technical lead with 13 years of professional experience, including 5 years leading engineering teams. My background is rooted in building real-time, performance-critical AI and distributed compute systems for AAA game development. I have designed and shipped AI frameworks, behavior and navigation systems, as well as machine-learning features using modern C++, Python, and PyTorch. I focus on technical leadership, helping teams make sound engineering decisions, and improving performance, stability, and maintainability across multi-platform game engines. I have extensive experience mentoring engineers, collaborating with design and engine disciplines, and defining long term technical direction. I am comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and place a strong emphasis on code quality, delivery predictability, and clear engineering standards.…I am a senior AI engineer and technical lead with 13 years of professional experience, including 5 years leading engineering teams. My background is rooted in building real-time, performance-critical AI and distributed compute systems for AAA game development. I have designed and shipped AI frameworks, behavior and navigation systems, as well as machine-learning features using modern C++, Python, and PyTorch. I focus on technical leadership, helping teams make sound engineering decisions, and improving performance, stability, and maintainability across multi-platform game engines. I have extensive experience mentoring engineers, collaborating with design and engine disciplines, and defining long term technical direction. I am comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and place a strong emphasis on code quality, delivery predictability, and clear engineering standards.

Jacopo Vezzosi

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I am a senior AI engineer and technical lead with 13 years of professional experience, including 5 years leading engineering teams. My background is rooted in building real-time, performance-critical AI and distributed compute systems for AAA game development. I have designed and shipped AI frameworks, behavior and navigation systems, as well as machine-learning features using modern C++, Python, and PyTorch. I focus on technical leadership, helping teams make sound engineering decisions, and improving performance, stability, and maintainability across multi-platform game engines. I have extensive experience mentoring engineers, collaborating with design and engine disciplines, and defining long term technical direction. I am comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and place a strong emphasis on code quality, delivery predictability, and clear engineering standards.…I am a senior AI engineer and technical lead with 13 years of professional experience, including 5 years leading engineering teams. My background is rooted in building real-time, performance-critical AI and distributed compute systems for AAA game development. I have designed and shipped AI frameworks, behavior and navigation systems, as well as machine-learning features using modern C++, Python, and PyTorch. I focus on technical leadership, helping teams make sound engineering decisions, and improving performance, stability, and maintainability across multi-platform game engines. I have extensive experience mentoring engineers, collaborating with design and engine disciplines, and defining long term technical direction. I am comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and place a strong emphasis on code quality, delivery predictability, and clear engineering standards.

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I am a senior AI engineer and technical lead with 13 years of professional experience, including 5 years leading engineering teams. My background is
rooted in building real-time, performance-critical AI and distributed compute systems for AAA game development. I have designed and shipped AI
frameworks, behavior and navigation systems, as well as machine-learning features using modern C++, Python, and PyTorch.
I focus on technical leadership, helping teams make sound engineering decisions, and improving performance, stability, and maintainability across
multi-platform game engines. I have extensive experience mentoring engineers, collaborating with design and engine disciplines, and defining long
term technical direction. I am comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and place a strong emphasis on code quality,
delivery predictability, and clear engineering standards.

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Expert

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Italian

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English

Fluent

Work Experience

Lead AI Engineer at Electronic Arts (EA)

February 1, 2022 - Present

Provide technical leadership for large-scale, real-time Game AI and client systems across AAA titles, including Battlefield 6, The Sims 4 and Need for Speed. Lead distributed AI engineering teams, align cross-disciplinary partners, and drive architectural decisions for high-performance AI in Frostbite, using behavior trees, navigation meshes and gRPC. Drove stability in Battlefield 6, introduced Bezier-based path smoothing and data-driven positional scoring, and partnered with EA SEED on ML initiatives leveraging AWS for scalable training pipelines and production ML systems.

Principal AI Engineer at Zynga

January 1, 2021 - February 28, 2022

Led AI development in Unreal Engine 5 for Star Wars: Hunters, delivering a GOAP-based AI architecture for dynamic decision-making under CPU/memory constraints. Implemented multiplayer gameplay and AI features using Unreal RPC and replication, provided technical mentorship, and owned sprint planning, architecture documentation and performance tuning.

University Professor – Advanced C++ Programming (part-time) at Università degli Studi di Verona

October 1, 2020 - February 28, 2022

Delivered remote MSc-level instruction in advanced C++ programming, focusing on parallel programming, template metaprogramming, memory optimization and debugging for real-time simulations and high-performance game systems.

Software Engineer III / AI Tech Lead at Electronic Arts (EA)

September 1, 2019 - January 31, 2021

Delivered production-ready Recast-based dynamic pathfinding in Frostbite for multiple EA titles; led an AI strike team, prioritization and cross-team alignment; developed and optimized large-scale AI systems (navigation, pathfinding and behaviors) and contributed to crowd rendering and the graphics pipeline.

AI Software Engineer at Electronic Arts (EA)

October 1, 2017 - September 30, 2019

Delivered AI and gameplay systems for Star Wars Battlefront II and Battlefield V with a focus on real-time performance, stability and scalability; built autonomous AI using behavior trees and navigation; improved development workflows with tooling and autoplayers for automated testing.

Software Engineer at King

December 1, 2016 - October 31, 2017

Developed cross-platform engine and gameplay systems for mobile and browser; optimized memory usage (~30%) by refactoring JSON load/unload workflows; improved runtime performance and reliability through low-level optimization and profiling.

Software Engineer at Creative Assembly (SEGA)

October 1, 2014 - December 31, 2016

Contributed to real-time, high-performance gameplay simulation logic and AI for Total War: Warhammer; implemented C++ FSMs, formations, navigation workflows, and large-agent simulations; built internal tools with Qt and Lua for data-driven development.

Software Engineering Intern at Ubisoft

July 1, 2014 - October 31, 2014

Supported systems-level AI and physics engineering for Ghost Recon - Wildlands; implemented autonomous in-game vehicle decision logic and navigation, extended physics engine APIs, and assisted with profiling, debugging and validation of complex, interconnected systems.

Software Engineer at Pebble TV

December 1, 2012 - October 31, 2013

Developed Linux-based broadcast automation systems with C++/Qt; supported database queries; automated UI testing with Python frameworks; debugging and maintenance across distributed systems.