Principal AI Programmer, Unreal Assistant

At the core of Epics success are talented passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative welcoming and creative environment. Whether its building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences were always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. Were constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

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.

Were looking for a Principal Al Programmer who builds products that integrate Al into Unreal Engine. Youll design and ship the full stack of systems that let LLMs act inside the engine (from end to end not just a single layer) bringing depth in game engine architecture cloud services and how LLMs actually work.

• Design and build LLM-driven agents and tools that operate directly inside Unreal Engine including engine-side C/Python tooling and editor scripting
• Design and extend the cloud-hosted agent harness services and database that mediate between LLMs and the engine
• Work across the full stack (engine tooling cloud backend and the web UI used to drive and monitor agents) to ship end-to-end features
• Evaluate and integrate emerging LLM capabilities (tool use multi-agent orchestration context management) into Epics engine and pipeline tooling
• Define technical direction for the reliability safety and evaluation of LLM-driven engine automation
• Partner closely with engine tools and backend programmers and mentor others on both game engine internals and LLM system design

• Strong software programming background with hands-on experience in a game engine (Unreal Engine strongly preferred) including engine architecture and tooling/editor scripting
• Experience with cloud-native services and infrastructure: web APIs databases and service architecture and deployment
• Excellent programming skills across C (engine-side) and Python and/or a web backend language
• Ability to work full-stack and reason about tradeoffs across engine code backend services and a web front end
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field

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 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.

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 arent limited to) things such as skills and competencies qualifications knowledge and addition to base pay most employees are eligible to participate in Epics generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years weve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epics award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity interactive experiences for PC console mobile and VR it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment automotive and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

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