Senior Technical Artist, World and Content Creation

Senior Technical Artist, World and Content Creation

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.
In this role, you will:
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
This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including CA, NYC, & WA).
About Epic Games: 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.