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 at Epic

What we do

Epic is on a path to achieve its vision of building the Metaverse and the 3Lateral team will play an important role on that journey. We are responsible for bringing life to that vision by introducing digital humans. As a very first step on that path, we have just launched our Metahuman Creator service for the creation of digital humans. But that is just a start. Now that we have Metahumans, we will need to build the whole ecosystem around them for animation, rigging, customization, stylization, AI and everything else that is required for Metahumans to feel at home in the Metaverse. 

What you’ll do

Epic Games is seeking an Engine Programmer passionate about writing awesome code. You should have a broad knowledge of modern game engine technology, as well as a good sense of trade-offs between performance, memory usage, and ease of implementation.  

We are looking for creative problem solvers who can move as fast as the ever-changing industry that we are part of. In this position, you'll be working not just with other programmers, but also with cross-functional groups across the organization including Creative, Product Management, User Experience and more. We are looking for individuals who are innovative, organized and have exceptional communication skills.

In this role, you will

• Developing engine applications based on existing technologies, such as Metahuman Creator
• Developing new engine features
• Integrating existing technologies into the Unreal engine
• Working closely together with local and global engine programming teams
• Working on complex multidisciplinary problems solving

What we’re looking for

• Experience working with UE4 on previous projects
• Excellent C++ skills, with a familiarity of scripting systems like Blueprint, Lua etc
• Knowledge of computer graphics in general
• At least 5 years of programming experience
• University degree in Computer Science
• Someone who is user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

Nice to have skills 

• Experience working with rigs, shaders, animation and similar
• Experience working with artists and cross-department / discipline teams

Remaining knowledge, skills, and abilities needed

• Passionate, goal-oriented and proactive character
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Interest in the technology, gaming and multimedia industry in general

Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees (EEs) and dependents (deps). We offer coverage for private medical insurance (inc. dental/vision), supplemental life, supplemental accident, disability, meal allowance, snacks, fruits and coffee as well as movie tickets and wedding/baby gifts.

All Epic employees enjoy drinks, snacks, and lunches every day, free of charge - and we offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love for our people.  Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our people are pretty awesome!

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 here.

Deadline for applications: 08.08.2021.