Senior Verse Language Programmer - Unreal Engine Toolchain

Game Companies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k match

Unlimited PTO

Sabbatical

Mental health program

Job summary

Epic Games is seeking an experienced Senior Language Programmer to join our Verse team, responsible for the toolchain powering game development in Unreal Engine and UEFN. You will extend and optimize the Verse compiler, VM, and runtime while collaborating with the UE engineering organization to enhance developer experience.

The role demands expert C++17+ skills, background in compiler/toolchain work, and a strong ability to optimize large codebases with emphasis on performance and usability.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of C++17 or later.
• Experience in compiler or toolchain development (e.g., compiler internals, VM design, Clang/LLVM, or linker/platform ABI specifics).
• Experience developing and optimizing large codebases, with the ability to trade off usability, performance, and power.
• Strong ability to reason about large, interconnected systems.
• Solid grounding in software engineering principles, including API design.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work autonomously and deliver practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Extend, evolve, and maintain the Verse compiler toolchain, transactional memory runtime and VM, add new platform support, implement new language features and integrate with Unreal Engine's content, build, and cooking pipelines.
• Optimize performance, memory usage, and iteration times across the Verse toolchain, runtime and UE/Verse boundary.
• Work closely with language consumers to ensure an exceptional user experience.
• Establish test workflows to validate improvements and prevent regressions.
• Design and maintain the scripting interface to Unreal Engine, working in close collaboration with the Verse Language team and the broader UE engineering organization.

Skills

C++ knowledge

Compiler/toolchain

Codebase optimization

Systems thinking

API design

Communication

Unreal Engine integration

Tools

Clang/LLVM

Job description

Epic Games is seeking an experienced Senior Language Programmer to join our Verse team, responsible for the toolchain powering game development in Unreal Engine and UEFN. You will extend and optimize the Verse compiler, VM, and runtime while collaborating with the UE engineering organization to enhance developer experience.

The role demands expert C++17+ skills, background in compiler/toolchain work, and a strong ability to optimize large codebases with emphasis on performance and usability.