Technical Artist

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 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.

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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 Youll Do

Epic is looking for a Technical Artist with a strong focus on material creation to join the Fortnite this role youll be responsible for building visually rich performant materials for characters and character accessories using Unreal Engine and industry-standard texturing tools to deliver a wide range of effects. While this position favors a materials specialist the ideal candidate brings a generalist mindset and a solid understanding of the broader game art pipeline. Youll work closely with artists programmers and other tech artists to create scalable solutions that support Fortnites visual style across many platforms.

In this role you will

• Create high-quality game-ready materials for characters and other cosmetics.
• Build materials that leverage procedural textures and custom material logic to achieve distinctive visual effects.
• Generate textures and bake data using tools such as Substance Designer Substance Painter and Houdini.
• Develop reusable material frameworks and workflows that enable artists to efficiently create unique assets.
• Collaborate with character artists Tech Artists and programmers to integrate materials with geometry effects and Blueprints.
• Optimize materials and textures to meet performance memory and scalability targets across multiple platforms.
• Contribute to improving Unreal Engine material pipelines and best practices.

What were looking for

• A strong reel or portfolio demonstrating game materials ideally with character or cosmetic-focused examples
• Advanced understanding of PBR workflows real-time rendering constraints and material authoring best practices
• Proven experience creating complex materials using procedural textures and custom material behaviors
• Hands-on experience with Substance Designer and Substance Painter for texture generation and asset authoring
• Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art and material pipeline
• Experience developing content for multiple platforms
• A solid understanding of modeling and texturing fundamentals within a real-time art pipeline strong collaboration skills and a desire to own features and initiatives from inception through ship
• Bonus: Tools scripting or pipeline development experience for Unreal Engine Substance Designer and/or Substance Painter
• Bonus: Experience in setting up or working with modern character art pipelines building custom tools templates or automation to improve material and texture workflows
• Bonus: Familiarity with Blueprints Python or similar scripting languages and experience in secondary areas such as modeling lighting or VFX

EPIC JOB EPIC BENEFITS EPIC LIFE

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.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4500 employees globally. For over 25 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.

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