Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: Environment art, Unreal Engine, 3D modeling, PBR materials, Lighting
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
$141k–$294k/yr
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 craftin…
Skills: Environment art, Unreal Engine, 3D modeling, PBR materials, Lighting
London, England, United Kingdom · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Python
London, England, United Kingdom · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: Environment art, Unreal Engine 5, World building, Set dressing, Material system
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
$173k–$279k/yr
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 craftin…
Skills: Unreal Engine, C++, Gameplay Programming, Leadership, Mentoring
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: Unreal Engine, C++, Gameplay systems, Leadership, Unreal Editor for Fortnite
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: Character Animation, Animation State Machines, Unreal Engine, Maya, MotionBuilder
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
$178k–$316k/yr
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 craftin…
Skills: Character Animation, Animation Pipelines, Maya, MotionBuilder, Unreal Engine
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: C++, Java, Gameplay Systems Development, Rapid Prototyping, Game Architecture
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: Litigation Management, E-discovery, Outside Counsel Management, Trial Preparation, Fact Investigation
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
$152k–$236k/yr
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 craftin…
Skills: Litigation Management, Outside Counsel Management, E-discovery, Fact Development, Witness Preparation
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: CI/CD, Build Automation, C#, Python, PowerShell
Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: CI/CD, Automation, Build Systems, C#, Python
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: C++, Behavior Trees, Finite State Machine, Pathfinding, Game Architecture
Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: C++, AI Systems, Behavior Trees, Finite State Machine, Pathfinding
Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: Project Management, Live Service Game Operation, Jira, Shotgrid, Game Development
Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: Niagara, Unreal Engine, Material System, HLSL, Material Editor
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
$195k–$286k/yr
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 craftin…
Skills: Strategic Planning, Educational Leadership, Curriculum Support, Program Management, Stakeholder Collaboration
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
$173k–$279k/yr
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 craftin…
Skills: C++, UI Frameworks, Tools Programming, AI-powered Workflows, Unreal Engine
Cary, North Carolina, United States · On-site
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 craftin…
Skills: C++, UI Development, Mobile Development, Game Architecture, Team Leadership
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The Principal Environment Artist will define and elevate the visual quality of Fortnite's worlds through hands-on production, artistic leadership, and technical problem-solving. They will establish visual standards, develop scalable workflows, and mentor artists to ensure high-quality, performant environment assets.
Candidates must have at least 10 years of professional experience creating real-time 3D environments for commercially released video games. Proficiency in Unreal Engine, 3D content creation software, and a strong portfolio demonstrating environment artwork are required.
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 a 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.
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
Epic Games is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to help define and elevate the visual quality of Fortnite’s worlds. This role combines hands-on environment art production, artistic leadership, and technical problem-solving.
You will create benchmark-quality work, establish visual standards, develop scalable workflows, and solve complex artistic and technical challenges. Working closely with Art Direction, Technical Art, Design, Engineering, and Production, you will help align visual quality with gameplay, performance, memory, and production requirements while mentoring artists and advancing environment art practices across the project.
Preferred Qualifications:
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.
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 being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and 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.
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 here.
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.
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
Offices: Cary, NC, US · Montreal, Québec, CA · Larkspur, CA, US · Novato, CA, US · Salt Lake City, UT, US
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
Offices: Cary, NC, US · Montreal, Québec, CA · Larkspur, CA, US · Novato, CA, US · Salt Lake City, UT, US
