Unreal Engine DevTech Engineer

Intel is at the forefront of developing and optimizing technologies on their GPUs and CPUs, seeking a Game DevTech Engineer to work closely with game and engine developers. The role involves analyzing Unreal Engine performance, collaborating with Epic Games, and providing technical support to ensure optimal game performance on Intel hardware.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Unreal Engine performance on Intel hardware using profiling tools, GPU/CPU traces, and instrumentation workflows
• Identify performance bottlenecks across rendering, compute, memory bandwidth, shader compilation, threading, and I/O subsystems
• Develop targeted optimizations, sample code, or engine patches to improve efficiency and stability
• Validate new and core engine features (e.g., Raytracing, Nanite, Lumen, TSR, MegaLights, etc.) on Intel hardware and drive fixes where issues arise
• Serve as a primary technical liaison to Epic’s engineering teams, maintaining an active feedback loop on performance issues, feature requests, and platform-specific improvements
• Contribute to joint investigations, bring-up efforts, and co-development initiatives where Unreal Engine and Intel hardware intersect
• Communicate Intel roadmap changes, driver improvements, and new hardware capabilities to Epic in a technically precise and actionable manner
• Collaborate with GPU architects, compiler teams, driver engineers, and platform software teams to ensure Unreal Engine workloads are well-supported
• Provide engine-based validation and early feedback on new hardware features, shader model capabilities, and driver updates
• Author internal performance reports, gap analyses, and recommendations to influence future architecture and driver decisions
• Build or extend profiling tools, debugging utilities, and engine plugins that help diagnose performance problems on Intel platforms
• Produce technical documentation, best-practice guides, and reference samples demonstrating optimal usage of Unreal Engine on Intel hardware
• Present performance findings, architectural insights, and recommended workflows to internal engineering teams and external partners
• Support Intel’s Product Marketing, DevRel, and ISV Engineering teams by providing accurate technical insights into Unreal Engine capabilities on Intel hardware
• Contribute technical expertise to joint demos, benchmarks, SDK updates, and showcase content
• Assist game developers using Unreal Engine to debug performance issues, adopt new hardware features, and integrate Intel-specific optimizations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field and 6+ years of experience
• Modern GPU architecture, graphics pipelines, and real-time rendering principles
• Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine (C++), including rendering modules, engine configuration, and profiling workflows
• C++ and low-level systems programming
• Experience with graphics APIs such as DirectX 12, Vulkan
• Analysis and optimization of CPU/GPU performance using industry-standard tools (e.g., RenderDoc, PIX, Nsight, Unreal Insights)
• Prior experience working directly with hardware vendors, game engine companies, or AAA game studios
• Contributions to game engines, graphics middleware, driver development, or performance toolchains
• Experience with shader languages (HLSL, GLSL) and GPU compute workloads
• Familiarity with compiler backends, shader compilation pipelines, and driver stack behavior
• Experience profiling large, multithreaded C++ codebases
• Knowledge of modern rendering techniques (geometry virtualization, SDF-based global illumination, virtual shadow maps, temporal upsampling, etc.)