Tools Programmer Intern

Tools Programmer Intern (R27410)

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.

Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of engineering experts. We're always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

As part of the Build Operations - Tools team you'll be working on internal tools and technology used to make Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and other products at Epic! You'll be working on tools that improve how our team writes software, builds, tests, and delivers features and prevents defects. We believe in user experience flow, automation, continuous integration, testing, and analytics are key to maximizing a development team's effectiveness.

Most importantly you'll work with a creative, energetic, and fun team to continue making the Epic Metaverse one of the most popular and engaging gaming ecosystems in the world!

In this role, you will:

• Create and improve tools and platforms used by developers working at Epic
• Write unit and functional tests that ensure the quality of the tools we release
• Instrument telemetry and visualize/report tools usage with data transformation
• Create and improve workflows for Unreal Editor, Unreal Editor for Fortnite, Fortnite and other products
• Work closely with QA and other developers to streamline/optimize human interactions and problem solving
• Collaborate with a wide variety of engineering and content creation teams to solve complex technical challenges that make an impact on the stability and quality of game development build operations

What We're Looking For

Experience working on game features or technology with C#

Familiarity or willingness to learn C++

Experience with UX and using GUI frameworks

Comfort managing agentic workflows and AI-assisted coding

A passion for maximizing developer efficiency and product quality

An interest in game engines and game development concepts such as scripting, exporters, data processing, packaging, deployment

This internship has a flexible start date in 2027. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship.