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About the role
As Technical Lead / Principal Engineer on the Al Engineering team, you'll provide technical leadership and strategic vision for the Al-powered platforms, tools and services that accelerate development velocity and productivity across Epic. You'll guide a team of engineers in building high-impact products like unified Al code review systems, Cloud agent hosting, centralized Al knowledge base and developer experience tools that serve thousands of folks across the company. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience with 10+ years building production software systems
- Track record of providing technical leadership for complex software projects from conception to delivery at scale
- Proven experience in "zero-to-one" platform ownership: leading the technical design, architectural strategy, and initial build-out of new platforms before they are fully staffed and scaled
- Expert-level experience with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
- Experience operating and orchestrating scalable services on Kubernetes, including managing container lifecycle and security configurations
- Experience with and high level of interest in using and building AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)
More about this role
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.
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.
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.
As Technical Lead / Principal Engineer on the Al Engineering team, you'll provide technical leadership and strategic vision for the Al-powered platforms, tools and services that accelerate development velocity and productivity across Epic. You'll guide a team of engineers in...
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