Lead Environment Artist — Unreal Engine Worlds

Impleo; Cary (NC); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k match

Mental health program

Unlimited PTO

Sabbatical after 7 years

Descripción de la vacante

Epic Games is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to elevate Fortnite's worlds through hands-on production, artistic leadership, and technical problem solving.

You will create benchmark-quality assets, establish visual standards, and mentor artists while collaborating with Art Direction, Engineering, Design, and Production to balance visual quality with performance and memory constraints.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree or at least 10 years of progressive professional experience creating real‑time 3D environments for commercially released video games.
• Professional experience creating production‑ready environment assets, materials, modular kits, and complete real‑time scenes.
• Preferably professional experience using Unreal Engine for environment world‑building, PBR materials, lighting, content implementation, and optimization.
• Professional experience optimizing real‑time environment content for performance, memory usage, visual quality, and multiple hardware platforms.
• Professional experience using Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender; texture‑authoring software such as Substance Painter or Substance Designer; and image‑editing software such as Photoshop or equivalent professional tools.
• Experience developing or improving environment art workflows, pipelines, documentation, or quality standards.
• Experience reviewing the work of other artists and providing actionable artistic and technical feedback.
• Experience mentoring or providing professional guidance to environment artists.
• Portfolio demonstrating professional environment artwork, including examples of 3D modeling, materials, composition, lighting, world‑building, and completed real‑time environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated experience collaborating with multidisciplinary development teams.

Responsabilidades

• Create benchmark‑quality environment assets, materials, modular kits, and complete scenes that establish the visual quality bar for Fortnite.
• Establish and maintain environment art standards across composition, lighting, color, atmosphere, materials, visual storytelling, gameplay readability, and environmental polish.
• Develop and improve scalable environment art workflows that increase visual quality, consistency, production efficiency, and content reuse across the project.
• Partner with Technical Art and Engineering to develop content creation pipelines, and maintain environment art documentation, best practices, workflows, and quality standards.
• Identify and resolve complex artistic and technical problems while balancing visual quality, runtime performance, memory usage, platform requirements, and production schedules.
• Mentor artists across different experience levels by providing technical guidance, artistic critique, workflow support, and professional development.
• Evaluate emerging tools, technologies, and production techniques and recommend improvements that meaningfully advance the environment art team’s capabilities.

Conocimientos

Environment art

Art direction collaboration

Mentoring

Performance optimization

Memory management

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication

Portfolio demonstration

Educación

Bachelor's degree or 10 years experience

Herramientas

Unreal Engine

Maya

3ds Max

Blender

Substance Painter

Substance Designer

Photoshop

Descripción del empleo

Epic Games is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to elevate Fortnite's worlds through hands-on production, artistic leadership, and technical problem solving.

You will create benchmark-quality assets, establish visual standards, and mentor artists while collaborating with Art Direction, Engineering, Design, and Production to balance visual quality with performance and memory constraints.