Technical Designer

at  Epic Games

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 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.

WHAT WE DO

Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Epic Games is looking for technical designers to join our team working on Fortnite and adjacent projects. As a technical designer, you’ll play a pivotal role in an initiative-based cross-disciplinary team that improves Fortnite’s health and quality. Your expertise in game design and your exemplary technical skills will identify and help implement the most cost-effective technical solutions to problems that designers face.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

• Create design content that pushes the envelope of what’s possible in Fortnite
• Improve and adapt existing Blueprints to modern standards
• Work within the complexities of Live Events, lending both your technical and creative expertise to make them function flawlessly
• Identify shortcomings in all workflows you encounter and either fix them yourself or refer them to the proper engineering teams; Set up reusable, generalizable, maintainable code or blueprints for your design group to use
• Assess technical debt in the systems you touch and take ownership over reducing or managing that debt
• Stay fully versed in the current and long-term design objectives of your design group and represent those objectives in engineering discussions
• Make critical UX decisions in how tools and workflows should function; Liaise with performance teams and art teams to ensure your design group can meet technical requirements