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Senior AI Programmer

Cloud Imperium Games Limited • Manchester, Greater Manchester

Salary

£67k – £67k

Posted

17 August 2026

Work mode

Full-time

Sponsor match

high

Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)

Role overview

Cloud Imperium Games Limited is hiring a Senior AI Programmer in Manchester, a full-time it role advertised as permanent. The advertised salary is £67k – £67k. Cloud Imperium Games Limited holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

As a Senior AI programmer you will be working with our custom engine and our internal tools in a multi-disciplinary environment composed by industry veterans, with the goal of creating systems and behaviours for our AI agents. The goal for the AI of Star Citizen and Squadron 42 is to shape a world that looks highly realistic, vast and very reach in content, this can only be achieved working side-to-side with game designers, level designers, animators, audio programmers and all the members of th…

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Visa sponsorship snapshot

Employer: Cloud Imperium Games Limited — confirmed licensed sponsor
Visa route: Skilled Worker
Advertised salary: £67k – £67k
How this salary compares: about 9% above the £61,888 median across 1,174 it roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester · Full-time
Similar roles nearby: 50 other live it roles in Manchester — browse them
Posted: 17 August 2026
How we verify sponsors: employers are matched against the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors — read our methodology.

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