Epic Games is hiring a
Lead Technical Artist

Summary

The job is for a Lead Tech Artist at Epic Games, working on Fortnite. The role involves creating complex materials, establishing workflows and tools, executing visual effects styles, working with programmers and artists to optimize content, and owning gameplay and engine features from the technical art side.

Requirements

• Desire to lead / work with a team and own features from inception to ship
• You’re a go to resource for complex material logic, PBR material standards and organization
• Enthusiastic about in game performance; making art efficient and forward thinking
• Mastery of UE4/UE5 and related art pipelines
• Very strong technical and logic skills surrounding Blueprints / Scripting
• Abilities in secondary areas such as modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting
• Desire to work with a team, supporting other content creators such as modelers, VFX artists
• Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed game tech art

Responsibilities

• Create complex materials for characters, weapons and environments
• Establish workflows and tools for other artists to utilize when making unique assets
• Execute on a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized
• Work with programmers and artists to optimize content for many platforms
• Own gameplay and engine features from the technical art side maintaining the high quality bar for Fortnite

Preferred Qualifications

Desire and knowledge of how to push Unreal Engine further

Benefits

• Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs
• Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture