Gameplay Technical Lead

Epic Games seeks Gameplay Technical Lead for Cary, NC studio to help craft the technical roadmaps for our future gameplay systems. We are looking for a candidate with a robust hands-on engineering background, excited by the prospect of turning product goals into a technical roadmap, with good communication skills to socialize those roadmaps outwards.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Determine overall vision within the team of engineers and stakeholders, working alongside production staff to ensure successful roadmap generation and execution.
• Distill high-level feature requests into meaningful, actionable work-items, delegating to the team effectively.
• Ensure the technical approach being proposed for a given feature satisfies both the surface-level and deeper, engineering-specific requirements.
• Propose architecture and lead the vision for the different gameplay systems needed to deliver mentioned features.
• Mentor and coach a team of gameplay engineers.
• Lead regular strategy meetings within the team and those outside, providing clear and transparent communication around task prioritization and the state of work.
• Work closely with internal/external technical content creators to identify and optimize content workflow bottlenecks and provide project-specific solutions to demanding gameplay problems
• Oversee project requirements and drive the effort to provide solutions for performance deficiencies across code and content by making a well-defined roadmap and coordinating with other stakeholders.
• Adapt to changing project needs during the development lifecycle, iterating on plans and communicating changes to team and stakeholders.
• Ensure architected solutions are forward-looking and can be used for future work to build upon, taking on feedback and input from the team.
• Provide technical leadership in areas of specialization and assisting other engineers with technical questions.
• Develop features, systems, and tools to a high standard using modern programming languages including C++ and platform-specific extensions.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Applicants must have a minimum of a Master of Science degree in Computer Science or a closely related degree from an accredited university in the U.S., 

and three (3) years of post-degree experience with all of the following:

• Strong C++ and Math skills and the ability to code and architect gameplay mechanics and tools.
• Full-stack systems engineering experience from UI/UX/Gameplay in Unreal Engine/C++ to Backend in Java/Spring with good API design practices.
• Developing, maintaining, and shipping a live service game on multiple platforms like PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iOS, and Android.
• Designing and developing high-performance, scalable, multiplayer gameplay systems.
• Developing, Debugging, Performance Profiling, and Optimization on Windows, Linux, PlayStation, and Xbox.
• Unreal Engine Artificial intelligence systems like Behavior Trees and Environment Query System.
• Unreal Engine networking and replication framework.
• Unreal Engine user interface programming with Unreal Motion Graphics (UMG) and Slate. 
• Meta-programming with Unreal Engine property system and reflection.
• Manual and automated testing, bug fixing, and software maintenance.

At least one (1) year of experience with GDB for debugging Linux core dumps.