Senior Technical Artist

Senior Technical Artist (R27355)

Epic Games 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, engineers, and other tech artists to create scalable solutions that support Fortnite's visual style across many platforms.
In this role, you will:
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
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. 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.
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.
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.