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Technical Artist (R27211)

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Description

Epic Games is seeking a Technical Artist with a strong focus on material creation to join the Fortnite team. This role involves building visually rich, performant materials for characters and accessories using Unreal Engine and industry-standard texturing tools, creating a wide range of effects, and collaborating with artists and programmers to develop scalable solutions for Fortnite's visual style across multiple platforms.

What We're Looking For

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.,Collaborate with character artists, Tech Artists, and programmers 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.

Ideal Candidate

A strong reel or portfolio demonstrating 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.

Hard Skills

Unreal Engine
Substance Designer
Substance Painter
Houdini
Blueprints
Python (bonus)
PBR workflows
real-time rendering
material authoring
modeling
texturing
scripting
automation

Soft Skills

strong collaboration skills
desire to own features and initiatives

Benefits

Supplemental medical
dental
vision
critical illness
telemedicine
life and AD&D
long term disability insurance
weekly indemnity (short term disability)
retirement savings plan with competitive employer match
EAP (employee assistance program)
robust mental well-being program (Modern Health) with free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

About the Company

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Epic Games, Inc.

Epic Games is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company is best known for developing the Unreal Engine, the globally popular game Fortnite, and operating the Epic Games Store digital storefront.

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