Senior Technical Artist

What We Do

Epic is seeking a Technical Artist with a strong focus on material creation to join the Fortnite team. The ideal candidate will create visually rich, performant materials for characters and character accessories, leveraging Unreal Engine and industry-standard texturing tools.

What You'll Do

• 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 tech artists and artists of other disciplines to efficiently create unique assets
• Collaborate with character artists, tech artists, and engineers 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

What We're Looking For

• A strong reel or portfolio demonstrating realtime 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

Bonus

• 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

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

• Pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents for Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match
• Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents
• Events and company-wide paid breaks throughout the year
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical

About Us

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Note to Recruitment Agencies

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