SAS is hiring a Senior Unreal Engine Developer to support the Games Analytics team, building photorealistic digital twin environments in Unreal Engine 5. In this remote role, you will help connect real-time simulation and visualization to production data, contributing to an architecture, pipeline, and standards roadmap for a young team.
This position focuses on immersive, data-driven experiences for industrial systems, robotic fleets, and logistics operations, with attention to visual fidelity, performance, and interactivity expected from an enterprise analytics platform.
What you’ll do
- Lead the design and development of photorealistic digital twin environments in Unreal Engine 5, integrating real-time simulation and visualization for industrial systems, robotic fleets, and logistics operations.
- Collaborate with optimization experts, IoT engineers, and software architects to deliver immersive experiences tied to real-time telemetry, sensor inputs, and machine learning outputs from SAS analytics pipelines.
- Build and optimize custom Blueprints and C++ modules for advanced simulation logic, physical system behavior, and user interaction.
- Implement dynamic asset loading, level streaming, and runtime procedural generation so digital twin scenarios can scale.
- Evaluate, integrate, and extend Unreal Engine plugins, including the group’s SAS Connector and third-party plugins required by digital twin products.
- Apply best practices in Unreal Engine pipeline management and version control using Perforce and Plastic SCM, coordinating cross-functionally with cloud services, REST APIs, and digital twin orchestration layers.
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to the long-term technical strategy for digital twin innovation across the enterprise.
- Follow applicable security policies and processes to support the organization’s secure software development goals.
- Represent SAS in open-source projects, encouraged where appropriate.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (advanced degree preferred).
- Minimum 8 years of professional experience developing interactive 3D applications with Unreal Engine, including expert proficiency in Blueprints and C++.
- Production experience with Unreal Engine server/client architecture and network replication.
- Experience integrating external data sources or APIs into real-time applications, including JSON, REST, WebSocket, or MQTT, ideally for simulation or enterprise scenarios.
- A portfolio showing shipped real-time 3D or simulation projects, including photorealistic rendering, physics simulation, and/or complex user interaction.
- Equivalent combination of related education, training, and experience may be considered in place of the listed qualifications.
Additional competencies
- Deep, current expertise in real-time 3D, with the ability to solve difficult problems and evaluate trade-offs.
- Collaboration across engineering, analytics, and art disciplines, including knowledge sharing and feedback.
- Innovation focused on measurable value for internal and external customers.
- Prior experience at a AAA game studio, or directly working on digital twin products.
- Experience leading a team of five or more application developers.
- Working understanding of analytical, statistical, and optimization tools for ingesting and processing game event data.
- Knowledge of at least one key SAS product: CI360, Intelligent Decisioning, or Event Stream Processing.
Tools and technologies
- Unreal Engine 5, Blueprints, C++
- Perforce, Plastic SCM
- REST APIs, cloud services
- JSON, WebSocket, MQTT
- SAS Connector, third-party Unreal Engine plugins
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision plans.
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP with a health savings account, including a SAS contribution.
- Onsite Health Care Center at HQ for enrolled PPO employees and their family members.
- Pharmacy that ships prescriptions with no additional charge (not local to HQ).
- Industry-leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and additional development resources.
- Generous time away: vacation time, paid holidays, and a U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave, and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
Location
- Remote (remote) in the United States or hybrid in Cary, NC.
Additional information: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received.
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