Senior Mobile Platform Engineer

ENGINEERING - 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 engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

The Unreal Engine Mobile Team is looking for an experienced Mobile Platform Engineer passionate about creating world-class, industry leading game engine technologies, targeting the full spectrum of Android platforms. You’ll work with the latest Unreal Engine and mobile hardware offerings to design and implement platform APIs, guide cross-platform API development and create robust platform support as required by the demands of Unreal Engine and its customers. You will also work closely with other product teams at Epic such as the Fortnite Mobile team.

In this role, you will

• Analyze and continuously strive to solve problems and optimize performance of Unreal Engine for AAA games, such as Fortnite, on modern Android devices; this includes identifying solutions in such areas as: *Rendering performance and device compatibility in both OpenGL and Vulkan, including the shader pipeline *Mobile-focused rendering feature development *Solving device-specific CPU and GPU performance and compatibility issues *Making improvements to platform toolchains, i.e. compiler/linker support, SDK upgrades, platform specific data management tools, debugger integration, crash reporting, etc. *Improvements in low-level systems that interface with platform APIs, i.e. memory allocators (physical and virtual), file systems, input systems
• Work with Google, mobile GPU and Android phone vendors to help drive the development of Android as a game development platform
• Collaborate with a variety of other Epic teams such as Fortnite mobile engineering to help them solve complex technical challenges in ways that move the stability and quality of our internal products forward
• Help us embrace, support, extend and enhance our engine for future mobile hardware

What we're looking for

• 5+ years professional experience working in Android NDK/C++ developing games or similar products
• Experience implementing modern rendering techniques, especially on mobile hardware
• Solid experience with a broad range of engineering areas in shipping games or real-time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code and deep optimization
• Proficiency with development tools and profiling on modern systems, including frame capture and profiling with engine-level and platform-specific tooling
• Bonus points for experience with Unreal Engine on mobile platforms, especially in C++ using NDK on Android

This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA & WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).