Senior Gaming Engine Programmer (Unreal & AI)

About This Role

Join the engineering leadership team to build the world's first Agentic Media Platform by creating photorealistic, AI-driven Digital Twins of experts that interact with users in real-time. This role focuses on developing the neural bridge between an SLM brain and a MetaHuman body, emphasizing low-latency communication and headless rendering at scale.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance C++ modules for the "Brain-to-Body" Bridge, ingesting real-time text/audio streams from RAG AI and driving MetaHuman facial animation (Audio2Face) instantly
• Optimize the "Time to First Token" (TTFT) loop by shaving milliseconds off HTTP/WebSocket payloads to ensure immediate mentor responses
• Architect the engine for Pixel Streaming on Linux (Nvidia L4 GPUs), stripping out unnecessary rendering overhead to maximize concurrent instances per GPU
• Write reusable Unreal Plugins that allow Technical Artists to hook up new "Mentors" without writing code

Requirements

• Experience modifying Unreal Engine source code
• Proficiency in C++ 20
• Experience with Unreal Engine 5.7 (Source Build)
• Strong understanding of performance optimization using tools like Unreal Insights
• Experience integrating external APIs (GCP, AWS, Azure, Custom Backends) into a real-time engine environment

Nice to Have

• Experience with GenAI (LLMs, RAG)
• Experience with Virtual Production (ICVFX)
• Experience with MMO networking

Skills

* Required skills