Senior Language Programmer
About The Position
Epic Games is seeking an experienced Senior Language Programmer to join its Verse team. The team owns the toolchain—including the compiler, VM, and runtime—that powers game development in Unreal Engine and UEFN. The role works on systems relied upon by UE and UEFN developers to build and ship games with Verse. Responsibilities include evolving and maintaining the Verse compiler toolchain, transactional memory runtime, and VM; adding platform support; implementing language features; integrating with Unreal Engine content, build, and cooking pipelines; improving performance, memory usage, and iteration times; and designing and maintaining Unreal Engine’s scripting interface in collaboration with the Verse Language team and the broader UE organization. The position is open to multiple locations in North America, including California, New York City, and Washington.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of C++17 or later.
- Experience in compiler or toolchain development, such as compiler internals, VM design, Clang/LLVM, or linker/platform ABI specifics.
- Experience developing and optimizing large codebases, with the ability to make tradeoffs between usability, performance, and power.
- Strong ability to reason about large, interconnected systems.
- Solid grounding in software programming 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 VM.
- Add new platform support and implement new language features.
- Integrate Verse with Unreal Engine’s content, build, and cooking pipelines.
- Optimize performance, memory usage, and iteration times across the Verse toolchain, runtime, and UE/Verse boundary.
- Work closely with language consumers to ensure 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 broader UE organization.
Benefits
- Most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs, subject to the terms of those plans or programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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