Technical Artist

Epic Games•Cary, NC

About The Position

Epic is looking for a Technical Artist with a strong focus on material creation to join the Fortnite team. In this role, you’ll 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. You’ll work closely with artists, programmers, and other tech artists to create scalable solutions that support Fortnite’s visual style across many platforms.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Tools, scripting, or pipeline development experience for Unreal Engine, Substance Designer, and/or Substance Painter
Experience in setting up or working with modern character art pipelines, building custom tools, templates, or automation to improve material and texture workflows
Familiarity with Blueprints, Python, or similar scripting languages and experience in secondary areas such as modeling, lighting, or VFX

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

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 match.
In 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.

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