Senior AI Programmer

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.

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

Epic Games is seeking an experienced Senior Al Programmer to join our Unreal Engine (UE) NPC team, which owns the core NPC technology (behavior, perception, navigation, in-game generative Al, etc.) that powers characters in UE, Fortnite, and UEFN. You'll work on the systems every UE and UEFN developer relies on to bring NPCs to life.

In this role, you will

• Extend, evolve, and maintain UE's NPC systems, including behavior, perception, and navigation
• Design and present new technical design and APIs for NPC systems used by developers worldwide
• Evaluate and experiment with in-game generative AI features in close collaboration with Epic's ML research groups
• Optimize performance, memory usage, and scalability of NPC systems across UE

What we're looking for

• Shipped AAA titles with hands-on experience building AI systems (behavior trees, perception, pathfinding, etc.)
• Professional experience with UE, preferably in system design
• Strong C++ skills and the ability to code and design core AI technologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work autonomously
• Experience integrating LLMs or other generative models into real-time applications is a plus
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code) to improve development efficiency is a plus
• Live-service game experience is a plus

Benefits

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.