# Principal Engineer, AI Platform at Epic Games

- Company: Epic Games
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/home
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Cary,North Carolina,United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-23
- Apply by: 2026-12-07
- Apply: https://epicgames.com/careers/jobs/6122975004?gh_jid=6122975004&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/epic-games-principal-engineer-ai-platform/

## 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 such as unified AI code review systems, Cloud agent hosting, a centralized AI 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)

Tags: Engineering Generalist

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