Developer Relations Engineer - Unreal Engine

Responsibilities

Unreal Runtime Development

• Support and evolve Rive's Unreal runtime by exposing new Rive runtime capabilities within Unreal while maintaining long-term stability and quality.
• Stay current with developments across the Unreal ecosystem, proactively planning support for new engine features, platforms, SDKs, and devices.
• Write, maintain, and expand automated test coverage to ensure runtime reliability and performance.

Developer Experience & API Design

• Help shape a best-in-class developer experience for Unreal developers using Rive.
• Ensure the Unreal runtime aligns consistently with the APIs and workflows of other Rive runtimes.
• Advocate for developers by validating new features, workflows, and integrations from the perspective of real-world usability and production adoption.

Documentation, Samples, and Educational Content

• Contribute to documentation that supports both new and experienced developers using Rive.
• Create sample projects, reference implementations, and example code that demonstrate best practices and common workflows.

Community and Customer Support

• Triage and investigate issues reported by customers and the community.
• Serve as a technical resource for both internal teams and external Unreal developers using Rive.
• Collaborate directly with customers to help them succeed with production integrations and best practices.
• Gather and communicate developer feedback to help shape product direction and roadmap priorities.
• Grow awareness and adoption of Rive within the Unreal community through discussions, community engagement, demos, and developer advocacy.

Requirements

• Extensive experience developing projects in Unreal Engine, with a solid understanding of engine architecture, patterns, and conventions.
• Proficiency with Unreal's UI frameworks, including Slate and UMG.
• C++ proficiency, including working within large existing codebases and extending established systems and architectures.
• Experience building developer tooling, SDKs, APIs, or Blueprint systems, ideally including integrating Blueprint workflows with native C++ systems.
• Strong empathy for developers and an understanding of what creates exceptional SDKs, APIs, tooling, and documentation experiences.
• A passion for sharing knowledge through tutorials, demos, videos, written content, or other educational formats.
• Prior experience working with end users, skilled in handling customer questions.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience using Rive!
• Experience with, or an interest in learning, other game engines and frameworks.
• Participation in developer communities through open source, blogs, conference talks, meetups, tutorials, YouTube content, hackathons, or technical education.
• Examples of technical writing, tutorials, documentation, or educational content you've created.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $160-185k.
• Remote work environment, comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, stock options.
• Compensation may depend on level of experience and geographic location.