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Principal Engineer, AI Platform

Epic Games
USAfull_timePosted 1 Jun 2026

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><h2>WHAT MAKES US EPIC?</h2> <p>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, we’re always innovating.</p> <p>Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.</p></div><h2>ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE</h2> <h3><strong>What We Do</strong></h3> <p>We enable Epic’s online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <p>Epic Games is the creator of Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Epic Games Store — a company that has shaped the way billions of people play, create, and connect. We build the foundational technology that powers some of the largest interactive experiences on the planet, and we give those tools to creators and developers around the world through open ecosystems.</p> <p>Behind the products is an engineering organization that operates at rare scale: real-time infrastructure for hundreds of millions of players, a game engine used across film, architecture, and automotive industries, and a platform ecosystem that lets indie developers ship games to every major device on Earth.</p> <p>Our AI Platform team is building the next layer of that infrastructure — an enterprise-grade stack of agentic AI systems that automates engineering workflows, accelerates developer productivity, and enables new kinds of collaboration across Epic's teams. We're not a research group and we're not deploying off-the-shelf tools. We're architecting and building production systems from the ground up, across six interconnected platforms:</p> <ul> <li>AI Agent Orchestration — multi-tenant platform for team AI agents that live and collaborate in Slack channels, Source Control, etc.</li> <li>EMA (Epic Managed Agents) — compute and workspace infrastructure for headless agent harness runs at scale</li> <li>AI MCP Gateway — MCP OAuth gateway, plugin runtime, and governance layer for AI tool orchestration</li> <li>Non Human Identity Management — agent identity, credential vault, and authorization for non-human workloads</li> <li>Centralized AI Knowledge Ba

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