Senior Technical Artist World Creation
Senior Technical Artist World Creation
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Job Description
WHAT MAKES US EPIC
At the core of Epics success are talented passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative welcoming and creative environment. Whether its building awardwinning 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.
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What We Do
Unrealpowered projects have been on the bleeding edge of realtime 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 Youll Do
Youll join the industryleading Unreal Engine team as a Senior Technical Artist and help shape the future of world creation! As a Senior Technical Artist youll be handson contributing to the design of cuttingedge novel worldbuilding tools through an iterative development process from nextgen terrain tools and procedural content generation to world partition streaming and modeling tools. Be part of redefining how realtime environments that scale across all platforms are created and push the boundaries of whats possible!
In this role you will
- Participate in the design and iterative development of world building tools
- Partner with Engineering and UX teams to design workflows and build valuable well thought out solutions
- Ensure our tools are best in class and meet our user expectations by creating prototypes demos examples and provide constant feedback
- Drive product initiatives with minimal direction/supervision
- Engage with our internal Epic Games production teams and external users to understand their needs and requirements
- Apply principles standards and best practices within the subject matter area to influence product deliverables and manage the product roadmap
- Work with our marketing and sales teams to help them explain what problems we are solving and the value for our users
What were looking for
- 5 years of technical experience in the World Building field (e.g. Senior Technical Artist or equivalent) working with exceptional engineering talent
- Subject matter expertise in large open world production landscape creation workflows 3D modeling geometry scripting procedural content generation for games and the ability to teach those workflows to others
- Expertise with Houdini World Machine Gaea Maya 3Ds Max Blender and with Unreal Unity or any proprietary game engine is a plus
- Someone that enjoys working on engine tools and features development up to final productization
- Someone that can be the voice of our users and think in both nearterm (tactics) and longterm (strategy)
- Drive alignment with clever thoughtful and kind people as a team
- Excellent communication and relationshipbuilding skills
- Comfortable with change managing complex tasks and adaptable to project scope
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 wellbeing program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and companywide 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 spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4500 employees globally. For over 25 years weve been making awardwinning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epics awardwinning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build highfidelity 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 worldclass 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 here.
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 here.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
