Senior Tools Programmer: Unreal Artist Tools & AI

Epic Games; New York (NY); On-site; USD 173,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Epic Games seeks a Senior Tools Programmer to evolve artist tools within the Unreal Editor, focusing on geometry, texturing, terrain authoring, and procedural generation. You will support user-driven and agentic workflows, driving new interaction paradigms to boost content creation.

You’ll impact artist productivity by delivering user-facing tools across a leading game engine used globally, collaborating with artists and developers across teams in North America and Europe.

Qualifications

• Excellent C++ skills.
• Strong background developing artist tools in games/film.
• Experience with geometry or texture processing or procedural generation.
• Familiar with agentic workflows in programming tasks.
• Experience applying AI to improve artist workflows.
• Experience in large codebases and distributed teams.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Support and extend existing artist tools for internal and external users.
• Refactor tools for accessibility and agentic workflows.
• Create new tools at the intersection of user-driven and agent-driven content creation.
• Collaborate with artists on internal projects and productions.
• Work with developers across teams on shared initiatives.
• Contribute to major Unreal Editor initiatives.

Skills

C++

Artist tools

Geometry processing

Texture processing

Procedural generation

Agentic workflows

AI in artist workflows

Large codebase

Independent work

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Epic Games seeks a Senior Tools Programmer to evolve artist tools within the Unreal Editor, focusing on geometry, texturing, terrain authoring, and procedural generation. You will support user-driven and agentic workflows, driving new interaction paradigms to boost content creation.

You’ll impact artist productivity by delivering user-facing tools across a leading game engine used globally, collaborating with artists and developers across teams in North America and Europe.