Senior Technical Artist, World and Content Creation
Epic Games•Cary, NC
•$151,585 - $244,558•Remote
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- Experience in world-building and/or content creation (as a Senior Technical Artist or equivalent), working alongside strong programming teams
- Subject matter expertise in environment and asset production, 3D modeling, geometry scripting, and procedural content generation
- Experience with Unreal's Procedural Content Generation (PCG) Framework, Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender
- Ability to represent user needs and think across near-term (tactics) and long-term (strategy) product goals
- Experience driving product initiatives and seeing features through from development to productization
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to manage complex tasks, adapt to shifting scope, and work across cross-functional teams
- Scripting experience or strong technical fundamentals
- Artistic skills or a strong eye for evaluating artistic work
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Unreal Engine, Unity, or a proprietary game engine is a plus
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and iterative development of world building and content creation tools in Unreal Engine
- Partner with Programming and UX teams to design workflows and build applicable solutions
- Ensure tools are best-in-class by creating prototypes, demos, and examples, and providing ongoing feedback
- Drive product initiatives with minimal direction
- Engage with internal Epic Games production teams and external users to understand their needs and requirements
- Apply subject matter expertise to influence product deliverables and manage the product roadmap
- Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to articulate the problems you're solving and the value delivered to users
Benefits
- generous benefit plans
- discretionary incentive programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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