Senior Technical Artist (Lookdev)

Epic Games; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Technical Artist (Lookdev) to enhance MetaHuman character technology in Montreal. This role involves collaborating with artists and programmers to ensure high-quality content and visual fidelity. Applicants should have extensive experience in game development, particularly in photorealistic rendering and Unreal Engine.

Benefits

100% benefit coverage for employees and dependents

Robust mental well-being program

Retirement savings plan with competitive employer match

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in game development using Unreal Engine.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating photorealistic look development.
• Deep understanding of physically based rendering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with art and programming teams to deliver optimized content.
• Support R&D initiatives focused on digital character technology.
• Drive improvements in the visual fidelity of MetaHumans.

Skills

Photorealistic character lookdev

Real-time rendering

Collaboration with programming teams

Proficiency in Python

Tools

Unreal Engine

Substance

Houdini

Maya

Job description

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.

PROGRAMMING - UNREAL ENGINE What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of programming experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Senior Technical Artist (Lookdev) to join the MetaHuman art team. This is an opportunity to work alongside our talented team of artists, programmers, and researchers to push our character technology, particularly around materials, lighting, and rendering. As part of this team, you play an important role in supporting our existing product and future-facing character technology. You will be responsible for supporting the Technical Art team in ensuring MetaHuman content continually improves visual fidelity and remains scalable and optimized for target platforms. The ideal candidate would be proactive, experienced in real-time rendering and photorealistic look development, and passionate about collaborating with researchers and programmers to develop our character technology.

In this role, you will

• Work closely with Art and Programming teams to deliver high-quality, optimized content for target platforms
• Collaborate with programmers to profile digital character technology on target platforms and help define art budgets
• Support R&D initiatives centered around digital characters
• Drive improvements in the visual fidelity of MetaHumans

What we're looking for

• A strong reel/portfolio demonstrating photorealistic character lookdev and authoring content suitable for real-time rendering
• Deep understanding of physically based rendering and photorealistic character look-development workflows
• Self-motivated and proactive in looking for ways to improve the product and push for future technology
• 5+ years of experience using Unreal Engine and working in a game dev environment
• Experience with DCCs such as Substance, Houdini, Maya
• Proficient with creating content optimized for real-time rendering
• Confident with scripting languages such as Python

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

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.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.