Principal Engineer, AI Platform

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.

ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE

What We Do

We enable Epic’s online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.

What You ll Do

As Technical Lead / Principal Engineer on the AI Engineering team, you ll provide technical leadership and strategic vision for the AI-powered platforms, tools and services that accelerate development velocity and productivity across Epic. You ll guide a team of engineers in building high-impact products like unified AI code review systems, Cloud agent hosting, centralized AI knowledge base and developer experience tools that serve thousands of folks across the company.

This role sits at the intersection of AI innovation, practical engineering, and technical leadership. You ll set the technical direction for tools that developers across Epic use every day, establish best practices for AI-powered development tooling, mentor engineers, and shape how thousands of engineers write, review, and ship code. On top of that you ll be hands-on building complex aspects of the systems and working heavily with AI agents to implement, test, release, and operate these critical platforms.

In this role, you will

Provide technical leadership and architectural vision for production-grade AI developer tools used by thousands of engineers across Epic s major codebases (Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and more)

Drive architectural decisions for scalable, maintainable developer-facing tools across multiple modalities: CLI and desktop tools, web apps, build process integrations, services, and APIs

Pioneer and establish patterns for modern AI frameworks and agent architectures, setting standards for the broader team

Partner with leadership and high-value teams to identify strategic opportunities and design/build/validate new platforms

Design and implement security, governance, and compliance protocols for AI platforms, including secret management, workload identity, and runtime isolation policies

Define measurement strategies and success metrics to track impact and continuously improve tool effectiveness

Mentor and grow a team of software engineers, conducting architecture reviews and raising the bar for technical excellence

What we re looking for

B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience with 10+ years building production software systems

Track record of providing technical leadership for complex software projects from conception to delivery at scale

Proven experience in "zero-to-one" platform ownership: leading the technical design, architectural strategy, and initial build-out of new platforms before they are fully staffed and scaled

Expert-level experience with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems

Experience operating and orchestrating scalable services on Kubernetes, including managing container lifecycle and security configurations

Experience with and high level of interest in using and building AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)

Proven ability to turn ambiguous organizational problems into concrete technical strategies and drive them to completion

Bonus qualifications

Game development experience specifically in Unreal

Experience leading developer tools or internal platform teams

Passion and interest in cutting-edge AI engineering workflows

Expert understanding of agent architectures and orchestration frameworks

Significant contributions to open-source AI tooling projects

Extensive experience with large monorepo codebases

Prior experience in engineering leadership roles

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 well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide 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​ ​is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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!

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