Senior Technical Artist

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • Technical Art

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Technical Artist at Epic Games will contribute to the Fortnite Ecosystem team, shaping the future of Fortnite as a game platform. Responsibilities include participating in content creation, designing and driving initiatives for new features, working with the Art Lead to deliver high-end visuals, and driving product initiatives with minimal supervision. The role involves shader work, VFX, PCG, and developing features like weather effects, building destruction, or crowd systems. Collaboration with other Epic teams is crucial for enhancing the team's technical art capabilities. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience using Unreal Engine, a broad range of technical art skills, strong communication, and adaptability.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience as a technical artist using Unreal Engine
  • Broad range of technical art skills
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills
  • Artistic eye and problem-solving abilities
  • Experience in shader work, VFX, and PCG
Good to have:
  • UEFN experience
  • Experience as an environment or character artist
Perks:
  • 100% coverage for employee and dependent benefits (medical, dental, life insurance)
  • Daily meal vouchers
  • Commuter benefits

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.

ART

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

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees (EEs) and dependents (deps). Our current benefits package includes coverage for medical, dental, and life insurance. We also offer supplemental benefits including daily meal vouchers, and commuter benefits for onsite employees.  

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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