# Senior Machine Learning Programmer 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: BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-09
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://epicgames.com/careers/jobs/6221662004?gh_jid=6221662004&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## About the role

You will work with our team of applied research programmers at the intersection of computer vision, gameplay agents, natural language processing, and machine learning to create state-of-the-art tools to support game developers in our ecosystem with a focus on bots (trained gameplay agents, intelligent NPCs, companions, world modeling), as well as automation of a number key areas (including moderation, security, and QA testing). Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field, or 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience creating / applying machine learning algorithms for action modeling of bots behavior, vision-based or language-instructed, and deploying them as production-level systems in-game
- Foundational models and vision and/or language, especially vision-language-action models, reinforcement learning agents, incl. local deployment and model post-training of open weights models
- Reinforcement learning, incl. experience with agentic systems, reward design, policy optimisation, evaluation, and building scalable training environments for agents
- Python and associated ML tools/frameworks (numpy, scipy, sklearn, pytorch)

Tags: Engineering Specialist

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