Senior Technical Artist, Lego Fortnite

Job Description

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 Games is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to join our team working on LEGO Fortnite. This person will create tools in the engine to enhance workflow efficiency, capture performance data, conduct analysis, and generate improvement plans. Key challenges will be around keeping the right balance between visual fidelity and performance/memory cost on all platforms, showcasing our games at the highest quality and setting the bar in the industry.

In this role, you will
• Provide guidelines and develop tools directly in UE5 to enhance workflow efficiency
• Communicate optimization plans to multiple teams, define priorities and plan of execution
• Use Unreal Engine 5 profiling tools and others like Renderdoc, LLGD
• Raise the quality bar on low-end platforms through optimization plans and best practices

What we're looking for
• Experience working on AAA games for console, PC, and/or Switch and mobile
• Experience in several of these pillars: profiling, scripting, optimization, procedural workflow
• Strong understanding of real-time rendering best practices in a PBR environment
• Strong collaborative nature to partner with artists and programmers
• Knowledge of Unreal Engine 5 and node-based logic like Blueprints
• Capturing performance data, conducting analysis, and generating improvement requests
• The ability to adapt to and innovate with new technologies

Nice to have skills
• Knowledge of Python and/or C++
• Experience shipping games on Switch and/or mobile
• Experience working on a fast-paced live service game

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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4b4qv-3-16-50-98-42 in your application.