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Principal Environment Artist

Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations

Posted about 2 months ago

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This role has been open
66 days
Epic Games's roles stay open a median of 66 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Epic Games's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Epic Games
high
149 stale, 9 reposted of 165 open
Hiring momentum
210 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-08

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About this role

As a Principal Environment Artist at Epic Games, you will lead the creation of high-quality environment assets and establish visual standards for Fortnite's worlds. This role involves hands-on production, artistic leadership, and collaboration with various teams to ensure visual quality aligns with gameplay and performance requirements. You will also mentor other artists and improve workflows while solving complex artistic and technical challenges.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 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
  • 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 using 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 professional tools
  • Experience developing or improving environment art workflows, pipelines, documentation, or quality standards

Nice to have

  • Experience developing large-scale worlds for a AAA, multiplayer, or continuously updated game
  • Experience with procedural environment creation, advanced material systems, shader workflows, terrain systems, or environment art tools
  • Experience establishing visual benchmarks and discipline-wide quality standards
  • Experience collaborating with external development partners or reviewing externally produced environment artwork
  • Experience delivering environment content across multiple platforms with different performance and memory constraints

What you get

  • Eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of remote work options or flexibility in work hours
  • Compensation varies significantly based on location and experience, with a wide pay range provided for different states
  • The role requires a strong portfolio, which may necessitate a significant amount of prior work to demonstrate qualifications

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Listed by Epic Games on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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