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, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ART

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

Epic Games is seeking a Technical Art Director to help run our tools and performance-oriented technical art team. You’ll build tools, pipelines, and rendering solutions that empower artists to create beautiful, efficient, and scalable content in Unreal Engine.

In this role, you will

• Oversee a team of dedicated tools and performance-oriented tech artists, maintaining scheduling, tasking priority, and facilitating communication with various departments.

• Lead teams to develop new tools/processes for finding optimization opportunities and actioning on them within a continuously growing content library and code base

• Driving complex initiatives based on emerging performance, tooling, and development needs

• Create new paradigms for budgeting content to support diverse game modes and platforms.

• Plan and execute tools to support artist workflows in Unreal Engine 5

• Advise and demonstrate proper rendering techniques to bring visual parity across all platforms in an affordable way. Includes in-depth knowledge of rendering pipelines, material creation, lighting, and post-processing

• Work closely with engineering and art owners of many different parts of the ecosystem to promote collaboration and reduce duplicate work

What we're looking for

• Proven experience leading or directing technical art for real-time projects across multi-platform pipelines

• Deep understanding of Unreal Engine’s rendering pipeline, materials, and profiling tools

• Strong collaboration and communication skills across disciplines

• Ability to mentor and grow technical art teams, fostering both creative and technical excellence

• Experienced in programming theory and scripting (i.e., Python)

• Experience not only in the analysis of profiling data (i.e., PIX, Insights), but also proactive in capturing performance data to find optimization opportunities and gains

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.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 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.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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