Senior Technical Artist, World and Content Creation

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

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You ll Do

Join the industry-leading Unreal Engine team as a Senior Technical Artist and help shape the future of the world and content creation. You ll work hands-on across the full development cycle from procedural content generation to world partition streaming, modeling, and terrain tools to define what best-in-class tools look like for creators across all platforms.

In this role, you will

Contribute to the design and iterative development of world building and content creation tools in Unreal Engine

Partner with Programming and UX teams to design workflows and build applicable solutions

Ensure tools are best-in-class by creating prototypes, demos, and examples, and providing ongoing feedback

Drive product initiatives with minimal direction

Engage with internal Epic Games production teams and external users to understand their needs and requirements

Apply subject matter expertise to influence product deliverables and manage the product roadmap

Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to articulate the problems you re solving and the value delivered to users

What we re looking for

Experience in world-building and/or content creation (as a Senior Technical Artist or equivalent), working alongside strong engineering teams

Subject matter expertise in environment and asset production, 3D modeling, geometry scripting, and procedural content generation

Experience with Unreal s Procedural Content Generation (PCG) Framework, Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender

Ability to represent user needs and think across near-term (tactics) and long-term (strategy) product goals

Experience driving product initiatives and seeing features through from development to productization

Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to manage complex tasks, adapt to shifting scope, and work across cross-functional teams

Scripting experience or strong technical fundamentals

Artistic skills or a strong eye for evaluating artistic work

Experience with Unreal Engine, Unity, or a proprietary game engine is a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games​ ​is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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!

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