Director, Technical Art

Epic Games • Cary, NC

2h

About The Position

Epic Games is seeking a Technical Art Director to help run our tools and performance-oriented technical art team. You’ll build tools, pipelines, and rendering solutions that empower artists to create beautiful, efficient, and scalable content in Unreal Engine.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading or directing technical art for real-time projects across multi-platform pipelines
• Deep understanding of Unreal Engine’s rendering pipeline, materials, and profiling tools
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across disciplines
• Ability to mentor and grow technical art teams, fostering both creative and technical excellence
• Experienced in programming theory and scripting (i.e., Python)
• Experience not only in the analysis of profiling data (i.e., PIX, Insights), but also proactive in capturing performance data to find optimization opportunities and gains

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of dedicated tools and performance-oriented tech artists, maintaining scheduling, tasking priority, and facilitating communication with various departments.
• Lead teams to develop new tools/processes for finding optimization opportunities and actioning on them within a continuously growing content library and code base
• Driving complex initiatives based on emerging performance, tooling, and development needs
• Create new paradigms for budgeting content to support diverse game modes and platforms.
• Plan and execute tools to support artist workflows in Unreal Engine 5
• Advise and demonstrate proper rendering techniques to bring visual parity across all platforms in an affordable way. Includes in-depth knowledge of rendering pipelines, material creation, lighting, and post-processing
• Work closely with engineering and art owners of many different parts of the ecosystem to promote collaboration and reduce duplicate work

Benefits

• 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 well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
• Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks.
• We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed