Senior Tools Programmer

PROGRAMMING - UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of programming experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

We're looking for a Tools Programmer to work on the Open-World effort inside Unreal Engine. This encompasses working on streaming features and providing awesome authoring tools to support a game production of any size, all working together simultaneously. You will have the opportunity to work across areas and systems, identify their workflow pain points, design solutions, and implement them. You will be part of the team pushing for bigger, denser, faster, and more vivid worlds.

In this role, you will

• Work with artists, level designers, and content creators to come up with solutions and ideas to push the open-world capabilities of Unreal Engine
• Implement new workflows and tools to accelerate content creation for any team size
• Improve and optimize existing tools, working across teams with subject matter experts to make them state-of-the-art
• Analyze and fix common problems in a game engine, such as performance issues and memory usage
• Work collaboratively across many of Epics’ internal teams and projects
• Work with Unreal Engine’s licensees to enable them to overcome their challenges

What we're looking for

• Excellent C++ skills with experience developing in a large codebase
• Tools and/or engine experience working on a AAA game production
• Experience writing tools that improve the customer user experience, iteration, and development time in game development or other fields
• Deep understanding of the authoring pipeline for game production with experience developing on game consoles is a plus
• Well-versed in software programming and design principles
• Someone passionate, solutions-focused, positive, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
• Demonstrated ability to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal)

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including WA).

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.