Senior Tools Programmer, UI Systems

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 Senior Tools Programmer to work on the development of the Unreal Engine UI systems, who enjoys working on the engine runtime capabilities and its content creation tools. From WYSIWYG editors, to APIs and frameworks targeted at other developers and runtime UI capabilities, we have a wide problem space for you to jump into and make an impact for millions of users. The ideal candidate is self-motivated and passionate to design and implement UI systems that will be integral to the Unreal Engine and used to ship awesome games and tools. You should have an endless list of ideas for improving the efficiency of a game development pipeline.

In this role, you will
• Work on the Unreal Engine to architect, plan, and implement new UI systems
• Optimize and improve existing UI systems
• Collaborate with all disciplines (i.e. programmers, artists, and designers) to identify areas for improvements, gather feedback, and design solutions for customer needs
• Analyze and fix common problems in a game engine such as performance issues and memory usage
• Work collaboratively across many of Epics' internal teams
• Work with Unreal Engine's licensees to enable them to overcome their challenges

What we're looking for
• Excellent C++ skills and experience developing in a large codebase
• Experience writing tools that improve the customer's user experience, iteration, and development time in game development or other fields
• A passion for improving the customer experience in software products, holistically and beyond code. Some examples of your passion may be - participating in UX design, developing automated tests, or adding profiling and analytics to monitor user behaviors
• Well versed in software programming and design principles
• Experience with immediate mode GUIs is a plus
• Someone who is user-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
• Demonstrated ability to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal)

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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8epy6-3-14-141-228-42 in your application.