Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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 projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of engineering experts. Were always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

You will work with our team of applied research engineers at the intersection of computer vision gameplay agents natural language processing and machine learning to create state-of-the-art tools to support game developers in our ecosystem with a focus on bots (trained gameplay agents intelligent NPCs companions world modeling) as well as automation of a number key areas (including moderation security and QA testing). You will be responsible for the design implementation and deployment of production-ready machine learning models that can be integrated in our ecosystem.

• Create and deliver production-ready scalable and high-quality machine learning models and associated algorithms that can make actions in game environments
• Critically assess the effectiveness of such models and make recommendations for the ongoing roadmap
• Methodically understand and assess the effectiveness of new data channels and support collection/creation of new ones

• • PhD in Computer Science Mathematics or related field or 3 years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience creating / applying machine learning algorithms for action modeling of bots behavior vision-based or language-instructed and deploying them as production-level systems in-game
  • Expert hands-on knowledge of:
    • Deep learning incl. but not limited to applications in the gaming industry
    • Foundational models and vision and/or language especially vision-language-action models reinforcement learning agents incl. local deployment and model post-training of open weights models
    • Reinforcement learning incl. experience with agentic systems reward design policy optimisation evaluation and building scalable training environments for agents
    • Python and associated ML tools/frameworks (numpy scipy sklearn pytorch)
  • Experience with working collaboratively with other developers following a flexible/agile/lean approach

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension private medical insurance health care cash plan dental insurance disability and life insurance critical illness cycle to work scheme flu shots health checks and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

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.

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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