Senior Technical Artist
Job Summary
Job Description
- 5+ years experience as a technical artist using Unreal Engine
- Broad range of technical art skills (shader work, VFX, PCG)
- Strong art fundamentals (environment or character art)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to manage tasks and adapt to project scope
- UEFN experience
4 skills required
Job Details
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
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.
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What We Do
Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of industry experts are always innovating to improve our world-building tools and workflows that power high-quality environments today and for years to come.
What You'll Do
You'll join the Fortnite Ecosystem team as a Senior Technical Artist and help shape the future of Fortnite as a game platform. As a Senior Technical Artist, you'll be hands-on, contributing to new projects in a variety of art-focused but technically minded ways. These will range from shader work, VFX and PCG through to assisting the team find ways to add value to our releases e.g. scoping and developing weather effects, building destruction or simple crowd systems and helping design these in a way that broadens creation options for our users.
In this role, you will
- Participate in content creation for the Fortnite Ecosystem
- Help design and drive initiative for new things that we can bring to users
- Work closely with the Art Lead to scope, plan and deliver high end visuals
- Drive product initiatives with minimal direction/supervision
- Engage with other teams in Epic to learn, adapt and grow the technical art capability of the team
What we're looking for
- 5+ years experience as a technical artist, ideally using Unreal
- A broad range of technical art skills, and flexibility to adapt to project requirements
- An artistic eye, but a head for solving technical challenges
- High standard of communication, and relationship-building skills
- Comfortable with change, self-managing tasks and adaptable to project scope
- Strong art fundamentals, ideally having spent time as an environment artist or character artist
- UEFN experience a plus
This role is open to multiple locations across North America and Europe (excluding CA, NYC, & WA).
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .
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 .
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