About the role
Company Culture and Environment
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, the team is always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by the community and users, constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
Engineering - Games
Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with a constantly growing team of engineering experts, focused on improving the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.
Role Overview
The Fortnite Technology Team is looking for an experienced Mobile Platform Engineer passionate about creating world-class, industry leading game engine technologies, targeting the full spectrum of the Android and IOS platforms. Responsibilities include working with the latest in Unreal software and mobile hardware offerings to design and implement platform APIs, guide cross-platform API development, and create robust platform support as required by the demands of Fortnite.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a wide variety of Fortnite engineering and content creation teams to solve complex technical challenges in ways that move the stability and quality of Fortnite forward.
- Implement and improve various low-level systems that interface with platform APIs, including:
- Memory allocators (physical and virtual)
- File systems
- Input systems
- Graphics APIs (Metal and Vulkan)
- Shader compilers
- Analyze and continuously strive to solve and optimize problems related to a modern game engine, such as load times, memory usage, and platform-specific performance issues, as well as the wide range of content delivered within Fortnite.
- Make improvements to platform toolchains, including compiler/linker support, deployment to device, SDK upgrades, platform-specific data management tools, and debugger/crash reporting integration.
- Help embrace, support, extend, and enhance the engine for future hardware.
Qualifications
- Strong programming background and C++ knowledge.
- Experience with a broad range of engineering areas in shipping games or real-time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code and deep optimization.
- Experience developing for Android or IOS-based systems.
- Well-versed in software engineering principles.
- Familiarity with an existing game engine with an understanding of engine and editor concepts.
- Familiarity with development tools and profiling on modern systems, including frame capture and profiling with engine-level and platform-specific tooling.
- Experience developing in a large codebase at a fast pace, making trade-offs between usability, performance, and power.
Bonus Skills
- Prior shipped projects with Unreal Engine.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid benefits for employees and dependents.
- Coverage includes supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, and long term disability insurance.
- Weekly indemnity (short term disability).
- Retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents.