Principal Engineer, AI Platform
Epic Games10 days ago
Base Salary
$223k - $327k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural vision for production-grade AI developer tools used across Epic’s major codebases.
- Drive architecture for scalable developer-facing CLI, desktop, web, build integration, service, and API tools.
- Establish patterns and standards for AI frameworks and agent architectures.
- Identify strategic opportunities and design, build, and validate new AI platforms with leadership and high-value teams.
- Design security, governance, compliance, secret management, workload identity, and runtime isolation protocols for AI platforms.
- Define measurement strategies and success metrics for tool effectiveness.
- Mentor and grow software engineers, conduct architecture reviews, and raise technical quality.
- Remain hands-on in building, testing, releasing, and operating complex AI platform systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience building production software systems.
- Track record of technical leadership for complex software projects delivered at scale.
- Experience owning new platforms from initial technical design and architecture through early build-out and scaling.
- Expert-level experience with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience operating and orchestrating scalable services on Kubernetes, including container lifecycle and security configuration.
- Experience using and building AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot.
- Ability to turn ambiguous organizational problems into concrete technical strategies and deliver them.
- Game development experience with Unreal Engine is a bonus.
- Experience leading developer tools or internal platform teams is a bonus.
- Expert understanding of agent architectures and orchestration frameworks is a bonus.
- Significant contributions to open-source AI tooling, extensive large-monorepo experience, and prior engineering leadership experience are bonuses.
Benefits
- Epic offers generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs, subject to applicable plan terms.
- The role is open across multiple US locations, including Washington.
Tech Stack
KubernetesUnreal Engine
Categories
About Epic Games
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.