Senior Technical Artist, World and Content Creation

<div class="content-intro"><h2>WHAT MAKES US EPIC?</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p></div><h2>ART</h2> <h3><strong>What We Do</strong></h3> <p>Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <h3><strong>In this role, you will</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Contribute to the design and iterative development of world building and content creation tools in Unreal Engine</li> <li><span>Partner with Programming and UX teams to design workflows and build applicable solutions</span></li> <li><span>Ensure tools are best-in-class by creating prototypes, demos, and examples, and providing ongoing feedback</span></li> <li><span>Drive product initiatives with minimal direction</span></li> <li><span>Engage with internal Epic Games production teams and external users to understand their needs and requirements</span></li> <li><span>Apply subject matter expertise to influence product deliverables and manage the product roadmap</span></li> <li><span>Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to articulate the problems you're solving and the value delivered to users</span></li> </ul> <h3><strong>What we're looking for</strong></h3> <ul> <li><span>Experience in world-building and/or content creation (as a Senior Technical Artist or equivalent), working alongside strong engineering teams</span></li> <li><span>Subject matter expertise in environment and asset production, 3D modeling, geometry scripting, and procedural content generation</span></li> <li><span>Experience with Unreal's Procedural Content Generation (PCG) Framework, Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender</span></li> <li><span>Ability to represent user needs and think across near-term (tactics) and long-term (strategy) product goals</span></li> <li><span>Experience driving product initiatives and seeing features through from development to productization</span></li> <li><span>Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to manage complex tasks, adapt to shifting scope, and work across cross-functional teams</span></li> <li><span>Scripting experience or strong technical fundamentals</span></li> <li><span>Artistic skills or a strong eye for evaluating artistic work</span></li> <li><span>Experience with Unreal Engine, Unity, or a proprietary game engine is a plus</span></li> </ul> <h2>EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE</h2> <p><span data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:13201,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;7&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:[{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;5&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:13421772}},{&quot;1&quot;:0,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;3&quot;:3},{&quot;1&quot;:1,&quot;2&quot;:0,&quot;4&quot;:1}]},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Roboto&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:10}">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 &amp; a 401k with compet