Senior Environment Artist

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 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. 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 experienced Senior Environment Artists to help build several initiatives as part of our collaboration with Disney. Our Senior Environment Artists are highly talented, creative, and versatile individuals who build the aesthetically groundbreaking and technically advanced environments used in our games. In this role, you will work directly with a world‑class art team to help create exciting and compelling environments and own points of interest that will invite the player to discover and explore. In this role, you will Take basic game designs and concept art, utilize Unreal Engine, and bring new points of interest to life, collaborating with a variety of stakeholders as an environment art point of contact. Work closely with Leads and Production to ensure high-quality delivery of work through tasking and prioritizing deliverables, driving creative conversation with your level design partner, and maintaining clear and open lines of communication. Contribute to ideation and prototype building for both environmental sets and environmental gameplay needs during pre‑production, helping ensure team success throughout the upcoming production cycle. Build and texture assets, focusing on architectural and thematic sets for Level Design to dress the environments. Be an expert in 3D asset creation in DCC tools such as 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, and ZBrush; possess strong knowledge of baking and texturing tools such as Marmoset, Substance Painter, and Designer, developing assets in a high‑to‑low‑poly baking process, using tileable textures, trim sheets, unique unwraps, and displacement maps. Understand performance constraints and develop for multiple platforms. Provide mentorship to other Environment Artists, strengthening the team through individual guidance, tutorial and documentation creation, and leading by example by setting and raising a high bar of quality and timeliness. What We're Looking For At least 5 years of professional experience in the video game industry building environments and assets for shipped titles. At least 3 shipped titles that exhibit AAA game‑quality art. An online portfolio of previous professional and personal work. Excellent written and verbal English communication skills. Benefits Our intent is to cover all medically necessary items and improve quality of life. We pay 100 % of premiums for both employee and dependents. Coverage includes Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, and a 401(k) with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well‑being program through Modern Health, free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate employees with events and company‑wide paid breaks. Unpaid PTO and sick time are unlimited, and we recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical. About Us Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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 embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media, 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. Equal Opportunity Employer 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Epic Games