Principal Engineer, AI Platform
Epic Games10 days ago
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural vision for AI-powered developer tools used across Epic’s major codebases.
- Drive architecture for scalable developer-facing CLI, desktop, web, build integration, service, and API products.
- Establish patterns and standards for AI frameworks and agent architectures.
- Lead zero-to-one platform design, validation, and initial implementation in partnership 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 platform effectiveness.
- Remain hands-on with complex systems and AI agents across implementation, testing, release, and operations.
- Mentor and grow software engineers, conduct architecture reviews, and promote technical excellence.
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience building production software systems.
- Track record of providing technical leadership for complex software projects from conception through delivery at scale.
- Experience owning new platforms from technical design and architectural strategy through initial build-out.
- 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 drive them to completion.
- Bonus: Unreal game development experience, developer tools or internal platform leadership, agent architecture and orchestration framework expertise, open-source AI tooling contributions, large monorepo experience, or prior engineering leadership.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, vision HRA, long-term disability, and life insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
- 401k with a competitive match.
- Mental well-being program through Modern Health with free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents.
- Company events, company-wide paid breaks, unlimited PTO, and sick time.
- Paid sabbatical after seven years of employment.
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.