Senior Tools Programmer, UI & AI Workflows
Required skills
- Senior Tools Programmer
- UI tooling
- AI-powered agentic workflows
- UI authoring
- UI iteration
- UI debugging
- UI tech codebase
- in-game UI
- Unreal Engine
- C++
Nice to have
- Slate
- UMG
- shipped title experience
- games
- real-time applications
Role summary
Epic Games is seeking a Senior Tools Programmer to develop next-generation UI tooling and AI-powered agentic workflows for Unreal Engine projects. This role involves designing, building, and integrating AI tools for UI creation, iteration, and debugging, while owning and evolving the UI tech codebase. The ideal candidate will have a strong tools-programming background, deep UI domain expertise, excellent C++ skills, and some exposure to AI workflows. Experience with Unreal Engine, Slate, UMG, and shipped game titles is a plus. The role requires setting technical direction, mentoring other programmers, and collaborating across disciplines to improve developer tools and resolve performance issues.
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.
PROGRAMMING - UNREAL ENGINE
What We Do
Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of programming experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.
What You'll Do
We're looking for a senior Tools Programmer to help build the next generation of UI tooling for users and AI-powered agentic workflows (tools that let AI agents assist with and automate UI creation, iteration, and debugging). You'll shape the systems and frameworks that millions of creators rely on, from WYSIWYG editors to the APIs and runtime UI capabilities used to ship games and tools.
In this role, you will
What we're looking for
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
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.
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Sample Epic Games interview questions
- 1
Design a system for managing a distributed task queue.
system designmedium - 2
Construct a distributed chaos engineering management system.
system designmedium - 3
Build a distributed system for automating the CI/CD pipeline.
system designmedium - 4
Clone an Undirected Graph Clone an undirected graph. Input: adjList = [[]] Output: [[]] Explanation: Creates a new, deeply cloned graph containing only one single node with zero connected neighbors.
codingmedium - 5
Maximum Depth of an N-ary Tree Find the maximum depth of an N-ary tree. Input: root = [1,null,2,null,3,null,4] Output: 4 Explanation: The tree is essentially a straight line, requiring a traversal that reaches a maximum depth of 4 layers.
codingmedium
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