Senior Technical Artist

Job Description

Senior Technical Artist (World Creation)

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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
You'll join the industry-leading Unreal Engine team as a Senior Technical Artist and help shape the future of world creation! As a Senior Technical Artist, you'll be hands-on, contributing to the design of cutting-edge novel world-building tools through an iterative development process - from next-gen terrain tools and procedural content generation to world partition streaming and modeling tools. Be part of redefining how real-time environments that scale across all platforms are created and push the boundaries of what's possible!
In this role, you will
• Participate in the design and iterative development of world building tools
• Partner with Engineering and UX teams to design workflows, and build valuable well thought out solutions
• Ensure our tools are best in class and meet our user expectations by creating prototypes, demos, examples and provide constant feedback
• Drive product initiatives with minimal direction/supervision
• Engage with our internal Epic Games production teams and external users to understand their needs and requirements
• Apply principles, standards and best practices within the subject matter area to influence product deliverables and manage the product roadmap
• Work with our marketing and sales teams to help them explain what problems we are solving and the value for our users
What we're looking for
• 5+ years of technical experience in the World Building field (e.g. Senior Technical Artist or equivalent) working with exceptional engineering talent
• Subject matter expertise in large open world production, landscape creation workflows, 3D modeling, geometry scripting, procedural content generation for games and the ability to teach those workflows to others
• Expertise with Houdini, World Machine, Gaea, Maya, 3Ds Max, Blender and with Unreal, Unity or any proprietary game engine is a plus
• Someone that enjoys working on engine, tools and features development up to final productization
• Someone that can be the voice of our users, and think in both near-term (tactics) and long-term (strategy)
• Drive alignment with clever, thoughtful, and kind people as a team
• Excellent communication, and relationship-building skills
• Comfortable with change, managing complex tasks and adaptable to project scope

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0554j-3-12-160-196-42 in your application.