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Cary - USA

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Not Disclosed

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Job Description

WHAT MAKES US EPIC

At the core of Epics success are talented passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative welcoming and creative environment. Whether its building awardwinning 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.

ENGINEERING UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unrealpowered projects have been on the bleeding edge of realtime 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 Youll Do

We are looking for a Senior AI Programmer passionate about broadening our Unreal AI tool chain. You will be working with others in the team to take part in building new tools but more importantly evaluate and improve our existing tools. Your impact can be in all of the areas of the development spectrum from design to usability to deployment in projects while ensuring stellar runtime precision and performance. As a member of the Unreal Engine AI team youll be responsible for collaborating with other programmers from the team to propose APIs that will be leveraged by other UE Engine teams but also programmers and designers from 1st Parties or Licensees who are using the Unreal Engine AI toolset. Your contributions to the team will help build towards the next generation of amazing gameplay experiences and finding paths to expose the toolset to our content creator ecosystem.

In this role you will

  • Work on our navigation system adding new features and maintaining existing ones
  • Develop and maintain existing AI systems as well as build new frameworks
  • Work with the team to bring our AI feature sets to the next generation of Unreal Engine including support for SceneGraph the Verse programming language and decoupling features from relying on the Actor framework
  • Evaluate existing toolsets propose alternative or new solutions in new and innovative ways
  • Support our partners and licensees in accomplishing their ambitions with our AI tools

What were looking for

  • Strong C skills and programming principles knowledge
  • Strong understanding of engine tooling pipelines
  • Extensive experience with navigation and pathfinding systems including familiarity with Recast
  • Robust understanding of AI toolsets generally used in AAA systems
  • Passion interest and knowledge in one or many areas of the Gameplay AI domain
  • Talent for building robust extensible maintainable systems
  • Experience developing AAA games or game engine technology professionally
  • Selfmotivated strong work ethic and able to work independently
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal)
  • Youre userfocused passionate solutionsfocused and innovative these traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

EPIC JOB EPIC BENEFITS EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100 of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical Dental a Vision HRA Long Term Disability Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental wellbeing program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and companywide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4500 employees globally. For over 25 years weve been making awardwinning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epics awardwinning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build highfidelity 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 worldclass 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.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e. a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.


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