Lead AI Programmer

Job Description

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 Lead AI Engine Programmer to lead a team who will build the systems that Unreal Engine customers build their games on. You and your team will improve and support existing AI tools, such as Behavior Trees, Perception, EQS, StateTree, Mass Framework, Smart Objects and Navigation while pushing the vision for new systems. You should have experience leading a team of programmers and setting them up for success.

In this role, you will
• Lead, architect and guide gameplay system development to help Unreal Engine grow to fit the needs of current and future games and applications.
• Scope and prioritize work in close collaboration with the team, making trade-offs when they're appropriate, while maintaining long term feature roadmaps that align with Unreal Engine goals.
• Work closely with other teams, leads and production across different projects to align feature work to help everyone succeed.
• Work with artists, animators, and designers to understand their needs when designing and developing engine systems.
• Optimize memory and performance, and fix common problems in systems that have to scale from high-end to mobile systems.
• Be the go-to expert resource for supporting AI systems in internal projects such as Fortnite, and answer questions from external Unreal Engine customers.
• Foster the career development of a team of senior developers.

What we're looking for
• Excellent leadership skills, including mentorship, planning technical roadmaps, making trade-offs, and prioritization, as well as managing senior developers.
• Excellent C++ skills, with a familiarity of scripting systems like Blueprint, Lua, Python, etc.
• Experience in a broad range of programming areas on shipping games or real-time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code and deep optimization.
• Well-versed in software programming principles, especially API design.
• Experience in a cross-disciplinary development environment, with excellent cross-discipline communication skills. You should be able to communicate and explain trade-offs to non-programmers.
• Familiarity with an existing game engine with an understanding of game engine and editor concepts.
• Familiarity with development tools and profiling on modern systems, including PC, console, and mobile.
• Experience developing in a large codebase at a fast pace, making trade-offs between usability, performance, and power.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0q7zj-3-16-125-156-42 in your application.