Senior Language Programmer

Epic Games • Cary, NC

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About The Position

Epic Games is seeking an experienced Senior Language Programmer to join its Verse team, which develops and maintains the compiler, virtual machine, and runtime toolchain used for game development in Unreal Engine and UEFN. The role focuses on systems relied on by UE and UEFN developers to build and ship games with Verse. The programmer will evolve the Verse toolchain and its integration with Unreal Engine, improve performance and user experience, and collaborate with language consumers and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of C++17 or later.
• Experience in compiler or toolchain development, such as compiler internals, virtual machine design, Clang/LLVM, or linker/platform ABI specifics.
• Experience developing and optimizing large codebases, with the ability to balance usability, performance, and power.
• Strong ability to reason about large, interconnected systems.
• Solid grounding in software engineering principles, including API design.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work autonomously and deliver practical solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Unreal Engine integration.

Responsibilities

• Extend, evolve, and maintain the Verse compiler toolchain, transactional memory runtime, and virtual machine.
• Add platform support and implement language features, integrating them with Unreal Engine content, build, and cooking pipelines.
• Optimize performance, memory usage, and iteration times across the Verse toolchain, runtime, and Unreal Engine/Verse boundary.
• Work with language consumers to provide an exceptional user experience.
• Establish test workflows to validate improvements and prevent regressions.
• Design and maintain the scripting interface to Unreal Engine in collaboration with the Verse Language team and the broader Unreal Engine engineering organization.

Benefits

• The company pays 100% of medical, dental, Vision HRA, long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) premiums for employees and their dependents.
• 401(k) with competitive match.
• Mental well-being program through Modern Health, including free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents.
• Employee events and company-wide paid breaks.
• Unlimited PTO and sick time.
• Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed