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# Technical Lead / Principal Engineer

- **Company:** Epic Games, Inc.
- **Location:** Cary, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Command-Line Interface, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Video Game Development, PC Tools, Open Source Technology, Web Applications, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Build Process, Unreal Engine, Restful APIs, Microservices
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/principal-engineer-ai-platform-epic-games-7987349

## About the Role

* B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience with 10+ years building production software systems
 * Track record of providing technical leadership for complex software projects from conception to delivery at scale
 * Proven experience in "zero-to-one" platform ownership: leading the technical design, architectural strategy, and initial build-out of new platforms before they are fully staffed and scaled
 * Expert-level experience with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
 * Experience operating and orchestrating scalable services on Kubernetes, including managing container lifecycle and security configurations
 * Experience with and high level of interest in using and building AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)
 * Proven ability to turn ambiguous organizational problems into concrete technical strategies and drive them to completion
 * Bonus qualifications
 + Game development experience specifically in Unreal
 + Experience leading developer tools or internal platform teams
 + Passion and interest in cutting-edge AI engineering workflows
 + Expert understanding of agent architectures and orchestration frameworks
 + Significant contributions to open-source AI tooling projects
 + Extensive experience with large monorepo codebases
 + Prior experience in engineering leadership roles

## Description

* Provide technical leadership and architectural vision for production-grade AI developer tools used by thousands of engineers across Epic's major codebases (Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and more)
 * Drive architectural decisions for scalable, maintainable developer-facing tools across multiple modalities: CLI and desktop tools, web apps, build process integrations, services, and APIs
 * Pioneer and establish patterns for modern AI frameworks and agent architectures, setting standards for the broader team
 * Partner with leadership and high-value teams to identify strategic opportunities and design/build/validate new platforms
 * Design and implement security, governance, and compliance protocols for AI platforms, including secret management, workload identity, and runtime isolation policies
 * Define measurement strategies and success metrics to track impact and continuously improve tool effectiveness
 * Mentor and grow a team of software engineers, conducting architecture reviews and raising the bar for technical excellence


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