Lead Tools Engineer

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

You will lead an established team of programmers developing tools and technologies for performance analysis, including future development of Unreal Insights and other profiling products used daily by Epic Games and its large volume of licensees. We are pushing the boundaries of our existing Unreal Engine tooling and this is an exciting opportunity to join this effort. You will help our teams to extend our profiling tools and expand our user base as we meet the challenges of developing new products for the metaverse.

In this role, you will

• Lead a team to develop and deliver new features.
• Be a vision holder for our medium and long term profiling tools strategy.
• Work closely with game teams and licensees to gather and satisfy stakeholder’s requirements.
• Actively contribute to the codebase, trouble shoot issues, ensure their timely resolution.
• Plan, schedule and prioritise work with your team, identify risks and determine mitigations.

What we're looking for

• Proven experience leading a programming team.
• Experienced C++ programming skills.
• Working experience and familiarity of modern profiling tools.
• Demonstrates a passion for improving developer workflows and user experience.
• Experience of working with large datasets and processing information efficiently.
• Proven ability to communicate progress, present plans and deliver documents to stakeholders.
• A good team player, collaborator and mentor to our programming team.
• Can drive forward long term development goals whilst delivering on short term wins holding a team accountable for their output.
• Ability to work cross organisation, network, build relationships and coordinate with other teams.

This role is open to multiple locations in North America and Europe (excluding CA, NY, & WA).