Role & Company Overview
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
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 as well as providing awesome authoring tools to support a game production of any size, all working together at the same time. You will have the opportunity to work across areas and systems, identifying their workflows pain points, designing solutions and implementing them. You will be part of the team that is pushing to have bigger, denser, faster and more vivid worlds.
The ideal candidate is self-motivated and passionate about pushing performance and excited to work with artists and content creators to optimize their workflows and enable them to do their best work.
In this role, you will
Work with artists, level designers, content creators to come up with solutions and ideas to push the open world capabilities in Unreal EngineImplement new workflows and tools to accelerate content creation for any team sizeImprove and optimize existing tools, working across teams with subject matter experts, to make them state of the artAnalyze and fix common problems in a game engine such as performance issues and memory usageWork collaboratively across many of Epics’ internal teams and projectsWork 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 codebaseTools and/or engine experience working on a AAA game productionExperience writing tools that improve the customer user experience, iteration, and development time in game development or other fieldsDeep understanding of the authoring pipeline for game production with experience developing on game consoles is a plusWell versed in software engineering and design principlesSomeone who is passionate, solutions-focused, positive and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we doDemonstrated ability to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal)
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
About Us
Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve 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. Epic’s 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.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
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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