# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Discovery Recommendations 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: Senior
- Location: Cary,North Carolina,United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-21
- Apply by: 2026-12-05
- Apply: https://epicgames.com/careers/jobs/6180210004?gh_jid=6180210004&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/epic-games-senior-machine-learning-engineer-discovery-recommendations/

## About the role

You will design, build, and optimize the recommendation systems that power Fortnite's Discover experience, serving personalized recommendations to one of the largest player bases in gaming across a massive catalog of creator-built experiences. You'll work across the full recommendation stack: candidate generation, content ranking, impression allocation, and real-time reranking. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience building production recommendation or ranking systems, ideally in a UGC, marketplace, or content discovery context
- Experience with deep learning for information retrieval and multi-stage recommendation pipelines (candidate generation, scoring, reranking)
- Demonstrated ability to design and analyze A/B experiments, with awareness of biases inherent to recommendation systems
- Strong Python engineering skills with experience in PyTorch and large-scale data processing frameworks (Spark preferred)
- Comfort working in a cloud-based ML environment
- Experience with explore/exploit strategies, content cold-start, or counterfactual evaluation methods applied to recommendation

Tags: Engineering Specialist

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