Senior Engine Programmer

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

Epic Games is searching for an experienced Senior Engine Programmer to join our Foundation Data Pipelines team. In this role, you’ll develop low-level tools and pipelines to enable UE users and content creators to build and ship their games. The ideal candidate will have a passion for practical problem solving and an affinity for improving the day-to-day workflow of other developers.

In this role, you will

• Optimize iteration times, and improve existing systems for performance, memory usage, and user experience
• Develop custom tools and pipelines for other engineers and content creators
• Optimize data pipelines across the engine including within the Cooker and Derived Data Cache
• Improve patching by diagnosing and addressing sources of non-determinism
• Work with large complex code base and understand and resolve performance issues
• Establish test workflows to validate performance improvements and prevent regressions
• Support external customers by answering their technical requests and questions

What we're looking for

• Excellent C++ knowledge
• Comfortable writing multithreaded code and reasoning about dependency graphs and content pipeline for large games
• Experience with addressing non-determinism caused by uninitialized data, floating point precision, and other sources
• Experience profiling and optimizing a large codebase
• Demonstrated ability to reason about large, interacting systems from the macro-level to the micro-level
• Someone who is passionate, solution-oriented, proactive and autonomous

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).