Intern - Fortnite Mobile Platform

Job Description

Epic Games is on the lookout for smart, dynamic interns to join our dev teams. When you join Epic you'll join a team that's pushing the limits of gaming and interactive. From Unreal Engine and Fortnite, to TwinMotion and the Epic Games Store, you'll contribute to the unrelenting focus on innovation, quality and community that defines us.

Epic Games Fortnite Dev Engineering Team is looking for a smart, creative Mobile Platform Intern to join them for summer 2023 . Our Interns are given challenging projects over the work term, and are provided with a meaningful experience with high expectations for performance. If you want to build something Epic, this is the opportunity for you!

This team is responsible for enhancing and maintaining the low-level platform systems for Fortnite as well as optimizing them for Android and Switch. Further, you will work closely with the Unreal Engine 5 teams enhancing and improving engine features and performance. You will work with some of the best technical minds and amazing content creators as we build and maintain Fortnite for Android and Switch.

In This Role You Will:
• Collaborate with a wide variety of Fortnite engineering and content creation teams to solve complex technical challenges in ways that move the stability and quality of Fortnite forward.
• Implement and improve various low-level systems that interface with platform APIs, i.e. memory allocators (physical and virtual), file systems, input systems, graphics APIs (OpenGL and Vulkan), shader compilers, etc.
• Analyze and continuously strive to solve and optimize problems related to a modern game engine (load times, memory usage and platform specific performance issues) and the wide range of content delivered within Fortnite.
• Make improvements to platform toolchains, i.e. compiler/linker support, deployment to device, SDK upgrades, platform specific data management tools, debugger integration, crash reporting, etc.

What We're Looking For:
• Strong C++ knowledge
• Experience developing for Android-based systems
• Experience with low-level Android systems, and NDK knowledge preferred

This is an internship for 2023 with a flexible start date. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. For more information about Epic's Early Career Program, visit Epicgames.com/students.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqqn1m-18-218-168-16-42 in your application.