Senior Technical Artist, World and Content Creation
Job Summary
At the core of Epics success are talented passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative welcoming and creative environment. Whether its building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences were always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. Were constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
Join the industry-leading Unreal Engine team as a Senior Technical Artist and help shape the future of the world and content creation. Youll 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.
- 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 youre solving and the value delivered to users
- Experience in world-building and/or content creation (as a Senior Technical Artist or equivalent) working alongside strong programming teams
- Subject matter expertise in environment and asset production 3D modeling geometry scripting and procedural content generation
- Experience with Unreals 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
We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical dental vision critical illness telemedicine Life and AD&D long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer addition to the EAP (employee assistance program) we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but arent limited to) things such as skills and competencies qualifications knowledge and addition to base pay most employees are eligible to participate in Epics generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).
British Columbia Base Pay Range
$145844 - $213905 CAD
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years weve 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. Epics 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.
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 here.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers t ... View more