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Principal Environment Artist

13 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Product Designer (UI/UX)
Design and User Experience
Photoshop Unreal Engine
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Epic Games

Epic Games

Epic Games specializes in creating engaging video games and advanced game development technology, including the widely used Unreal Engine, while fostering a collaborative and innovative environment for both its employees and the global gaming community.

Internet Software & Services
5K-10K
Founded 1991
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Description

  • Create benchmark-quality environment assets, materials, modular kits, and complete scenes for Fortnite.
  • Establish and maintain environment art standards for composition, lighting, color, atmosphere, materials, visual storytelling, gameplay readability, and polish.
  • Develop scalable environment art workflows that improve quality, consistency, efficiency, and content reuse.
  • Partner with Technical Art and Engineering to build content creation pipelines and maintain documentation, best practices, workflows, and quality standards.
  • Resolve artistic and technical problems while balancing visual quality, performance, memory usage, platform requirements, and production schedules.
  • Mentor artists through technical guidance, artistic critique, workflow support, and professional development.
  • Evaluate emerging tools, technologies, and production techniques and recommend improvements.
  • Collaborate closely with Art Direction, Design, Engineering, and Production to align visuals with gameplay and production needs.

Requirements

  • 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 with a 3D content creation application such as Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender; texture-authoring software such as Substance Painter or Substance Designer; and image-editing software such as Photoshop or equivalent tools.
  • Experience developing or improving environment art workflows, pipelines, documentation, or quality standards.
  • Experience reviewing other artists’ work and providing actionable artistic and technical feedback.
  • Experience mentoring or providing professional guidance to environment artists.
  • Portfolio demonstrating professional environment artwork, including 3D modeling, materials, composition, lighting, world-building, and completed real-time environments.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience collaborating with multidisciplinary development teams.
  • Preferred: Experience developing large-scale worlds for a AAA, multiplayer, or continuously updated game.
  • Preferred: Experience with procedural environment creation, advanced material systems, shader workflows, terrain systems, or environment art tools.
  • Preferred: Experience establishing visual benchmarks and discipline-wide quality standards.
  • Preferred: Experience collaborating with external development partners or reviewing externally produced environment artwork.
  • Preferred: Experience delivering environment content across multiple platforms with different performance and memory constraints.

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision HRA, long-term disability, life insurance, and dependent coverage.
  • 401(k) with competitive company match.
  • Free therapy and coaching through Modern Health for employees and dependents.
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time.
  • Company-wide paid breaks and employee events throughout the year.
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment.

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