Lead AI Engineer for Unreal Engine Tools

Epic Games; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits for employees and dependents

Retirement plan with employer match

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Job summary

Epic Games in Cary, NC, is seeking a Principal AI Programmer to build products that integrate AI into Unreal Engine. You’ll design and ship the full stack of systems that let LLMs act inside the engine (end-to-end), bringing depth in game engine architecture, cloud services, and how LLMs actually work.

The role requires a strong software background with Unreal Engine experience, hands-on experience with LLM-powered products or deep understanding of LLM concepts, and cloud-native skills (web

Qualifications

• Strong software background with hands-on Unreal Engine experience.
• Experience shipping products powered by LLMs or strong conceptual understanding of LLMs.
• Experience with cloud-native services and infrastructure: web APIs, databases, and service architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and build LLM-driven agents and tools inside Unreal Engine (engine-side C++/Python tooling).
• Develop the cloud-hosted agent harness, services, and database mediating between LLMs and the engine.
• Work across engine tooling, cloud backend, and web UI to ship end-to-end features.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging LLM capabilities into Epic’s tooling.
• Define technical direction for reliability, safety, and evaluation of LLM-driven automation.
• Mentor engine and backend programmers in system design.

Skills

Unreal Engine

C++

Python

LLM integration

Full-stack thinking

Distributed systems

Communication

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Editor scripting

Cloud services

Web APIs

Databases

Job description

Epic Games in Cary, NC, is seeking a Principal AI Programmer to build products that integrate AI into Unreal Engine. You’ll design and ship the full stack of systems that let LLMs act inside the engine (end-to-end), bringing depth in game engine architecture, cloud services, and how LLMs actually work.

The role requires a strong software background with Unreal Engine experience, hands-on experience with LLM-powered products or deep understanding of LLM concepts, and cloud-native skills (web