Senior Technical Artist

Epic Games; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game development company in London is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to collaborate on developing high-quality, nature-based worlds in Unreal Engine. The ideal candidate will possess a solid understanding of AAA asset creation techniques, have experience implementing advanced materials, and have shipped at least one game with Unreal Engine. This position offers incredible benefits including private medical insurance and a robust mental well-being program.

Benefits

Pension

Private medical insurance

Health care cash plan

Dental insurance

Disability and life insurance

Critical illness policy

Cycle to work scheme

Flu shots

Health checks

Meals

Free therapy and coaching

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of AAA asset creation techniques.
• Experience implementing advanced materials.
• Experience with large-scale world-building.
• Experience with optimizing all of the above.
• Experience with Node-based visual scripting (Blueprint, PCG, Materials).
• Has shipped at least one game with Unreal Engine.
• Minimum 5 years AAA experience.

Responsibilities

• Support the art team to build nature-based worlds and biomes in Unreal Engine.
• Drive performance and visual fidelity within these worlds from start to finish.
• Have a high level of ownership and autonomy in the development and optimization of worlds.
• Collaborate with various supporting teams, providing guidance and feedback.
• Define content creation standards and guide art teams to ensure multi-platform performance.

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.

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 is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to join the Quixel team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for collaborating with a wide range of artists, engineers, and other developers to develop large-scale, procedural, real-time worlds to a high visual quality. This role requires a solid understanding of general real-time world-building, from an artistic and technical perspective, where the primary objective will be to ensure our large, open worlds are performant and well optimised. A large part of your day-to-day focus as a Technical artist will be ensuring content and worlds are being developed with performance and visuals in mind, profiling content, collaborating with engineers, and looking for opportunities to empower the art team further.

In this role, you will

• Support the art team to build, primarily, nature-based worlds and biomes in Unreal Engine
• Drive performance and visual fidelity within these worlds from start to finish
• Have a high level of ownership and autonomy in the development and optimization of worlds
• Collaborate with various supporting teams, providing guidance and feedback
• Define content creation standards and guide art teams to ensure multi-platform performance

What we're looking for

• A solid understanding of AAA asset creation techniques
• Experience implementing advanced materials
• Experience with large-scale world-building
• Experience with optimizing all of the above
• Experience with Node-based visual scripting (Blueprint, PCG, Materials)
• Has shipped at least one game with Unreal Engine
• Minimum 5 years AAA experience

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. 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.

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