Senior Tools Programmer

Epic Games; Montreal; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Tools Programmer, where you will innovate and enhance the Unreal Engine for open-world game development. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with talented artists and designers to create cutting-edge tools that improve the game production pipeline. Your expertise in C++ and passion for problem-solving will be crucial as you work across teams to optimize workflows and enhance user experiences. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this dynamic environment fosters creativity and collaboration, making it an exciting place to grow your career in game development.

Benefits

100% benefits coverage for employees and dependents

Supplemental medical, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement savings plan with employer match

Employee assistance program

Mental well-being program with free therapy and coaching

Qualifications

• Excellent C++ skills with experience in a large codebase.
• Experience in tools and engine development for AAA game production.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with artists and designers to enhance Unreal Engine's capabilities.
• Implement new workflows to streamline content creation.

Skills

C++

Game Development

Tools Programming

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Job description

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

We're looking for a Tools Programmer to work on the Open-World effort inside Unreal Engine. This encompasses working on streaming features and providing awesome authoring tools to support a game production of any size, all working together simultaneously. You will have the opportunity to work across areas and systems, identify their workflow pain points, design solutions, and implement them. You will be part of the team pushing for bigger, denser, faster, and more vivid worlds.

In this role, you will

• Work with artists, level designers, and content creators to come up with solutions and ideas to push the open-world capabilities of Unreal Engine
• Implement new workflows and tools to accelerate content creation for any team size
• Improve and optimize existing tools, working across teams with subject matter experts to make them state-of-the-art
• Analyze and fix common problems in a game engine, such as performance issues and memory usage
• Work collaboratively across many of Epic’s internal teams and projects
• Work with Unreal Engine’s licensees to enable them to overcome their challenges

What we're looking for

• Excellent C++ skills with experience developing in a large codebase
• Tools and/or engine experience working on a AAA game production
• Experience writing tools that improve the customer user experience, iteration, and development time in game development or other fields
• Deep understanding of the authoring pipeline for game production with experience developing on game consoles is a plus
• Well-versed in software programming and design principles
• Someone passionate, solutions-focused, positive, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
• Demonstrated ability to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal)

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including WA).

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), 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 here.

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 here.