Machine Learning Engineer, Memory

Epic Games; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with company match

Unlimited PTO

Sabbatical after 7 years

Mental well-being program

Job summary

Epic Games in Cary, NC seeks a memory systems-focused engineer to advance foundation models used across Unreal Engine and internal tools. You will collaborate with researchers to design architectures for long-horizon memory, evaluate memory performance, and help deliver production-ready learning models and algorithms.

Ideal candidates have a PhD or 3+ years in ML with experience in vision/language models, Python and ML tooling (NumPy, PyTorch).

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field, or 3+ years of industry experience.
• Experience designing ML algorithms for vision and/or language and deploying them in production-level systems.
• Expert knowledge of foundation models, memory/long-horizon behavior, and Python ML tooling (NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch).
• Experience collaborating with other developers in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Design new memory architectures that work across problems, modalities and products.
• Define metrics to evaluate memory performance and impact on systems.
• Develop production-ready learning models and associated algorithms.
• Assess model effectiveness and influence roadmap decisions.

Skills

Memory architectures

Large context / memory models

Python ML tools

Production ML systems

Team collaboration

Research collaboration

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field

3+ years of industry experience

Tools

Python

NumPy

SciPy

scikit-learn

PyTorch

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.

ENGINEERING - GAMES

What We Do

Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of engineering experts. We’re always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

As foundation models move from answering questions to acting over long horizons, memory becomes a central requirement. Systems must decide what is worth keeping and improve from experience. Large context windows and retrieval systems are not enough. You will work with researchers on projects across the company that require memory in different modalities to define general solutions that enable models to represent experience, decide what they keep and what they discard, and to efficiently store, retrieve and exploit memory.

In this role, you will

• Design new memory architectures that work across problems, modalities and products
• Define new ways to measure and evaluate memory performance
• Help create and deliver production-ready, scalable and high-quality learning models and associated algorithms
• Critically assess the effectiveness of such models and make recommendations for the ongoing roadmap

What we're looking for

• PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field, or 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience creating machine learning algorithms for vision and/or language problems and deploying them as production-level systems
• Expert, hands-on knowledge of:
  • Foundational models and vision and/or language, incl. local deployment and model post-training of open weights models
  • Memory, state, or long-horizon behaviour in foundation models: your experience may come from language agents and long-context methods, reinforcement learning under partial observability, world models, or sequence modelling
  • Python and associated ML tools/frameworks (numpy, scipy, sklearn, pytorch)
• Experience with working collaboratively with other developers, following a flexible and agile approach

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.

ABOUT US

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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.