About the role
Department
Art & Animation
Location
Montreal, Canada
Product
Unreal Engine
Company
Epic Games
What Makes Us Epic
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, the company is always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by the community and users, constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You'll Do
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.
Role 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
What We're Looking For
- 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
- Experience with Unreal Engine, Unity, or a proprietary game engine is a plus
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid benefits for employees and dependents
- Coverage includes:
- Supplemental medical, dental, and vision
- Critical illness
- Telemedicine
- Life and AD&D
- Long term disability insurance
- Weekly indemnity (short term disability)
- Retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents
About Us
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years, they have been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, and is embraced by content creators across media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture and is an Equal Opportunity employer.