Tools Engineer

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Game Engine

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Tools Engineer at Epic Games, you'll develop world-building tools for artists, impacting their creativity and productivity globally. You'll leverage your C++ expertise to create, optimize, and enhance algorithms and data structures, resolving performance issues like load times and memory usage. Collaboration with programmers, artists, and designers is key to identifying improvement areas and designing user-centric solutions. Experience with UE4/5 (C++ and Blueprints), content creation tools, procedural generation, and mesh processing is vital. You'll directly contribute to the next generation of tools used by industry-leading artists.
Must have:
  • Excellent C++ skills
  • 5+ years experience building complex products
  • UE4/5 experience (C++ and Blueprints)
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
  • Experience with content creation tools
Good to have:
  • Experience with procedural content generation
  • Experience with mesh processing techniques
Perks:
  • 100% employer-paid benefits (except PMI for dependents)
  • Pension
  • Private medical insurance
  • Health care cash plan
  • Dental insurance
  • Disability and life insurance
  • Critical illness coverage
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Flu shots
  • Health checks
  • Meals
  • Robust mental well-being program

Job Details

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.

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

We are looking for a Tools Engineer who is passionate about writing world-building tools for artists. You will help develop the next generation of tools used by the industry's leading artists and directly impact the creativity and productivity of artists worldwide.

In this role, you will

  • Use hands-on technical expertise to drive solutions for a range of challenges
  • Collaborate with all disciplines (i.e., programmers, artists, and designers) to identify areas for improvements, gather feedback, and design solutions for user needs
  • Creating, optimizing, and enhancing algorithms and data structures
  • Analyze and fix common problems such as load times, memory usage, and performance problems

What we're looking for

  • Excellent C++ skills
  • 5+ years of experience building high-performing, architecturally complex products
  • Hands on experience with UE 4/5 with both C++ coding and Blueprints is required
  • Strong troubleshooting, profiling, and debugging skills
  • Experience with contemporary content creation (modeling and texturing) tools and workflows
  • Experience with procedural content generation and mesh processing techniques

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. 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 25 countries with 46 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 .

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 .

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