Director, Technical Art

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.

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 Technical Art Director to help define the visual and technical direction for our next-generation mobile experiences. You’ll bridge art and engineering to deliver exceptional visuals that perform seamlessly across a wide range of devices—from high-end hardware to mid-tier mobile platforms. You’ll build tools, pipelines, and rendering solutions that empower artists to create beautiful, efficient, and scalable content in Unreal Engine.

• Lead and mentor a team of technical artists focused on delivering optimized, high-quality visuals for mobile and cross-platform experiences; partner with art, design, and engineering to balance visual fidelity, performance, and production efficiency.
• Develop and maintain material, lighting, and rendering workflows that support both mobile and high-end platforms.
• Build tools and pipelines that enable efficient iteration and validation across a variety of device profiles.
• Establish and uphold standards for asset optimization, texture compression, and draw call management.
• Profile, analyze, and optimize content to ensure consistent performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with gameplay, animation, and VFX teams to ensure visuals support gameplay readability and responsiveness.
• Contribute to defining technical art best practices that scale across multiple projects and visual targets.

• Proven experience leading or directing technical art for real-time projects across mobile or multi-platform pipelines
• Deep understanding of Unreal Engine’s rendering pipeline, materials, and profiling tools
• Strong technical foundation in shaders, lighting, performance optimization, and asset validation
• Experience with both lightweight and advanced rendering techniques (e.g., dynamic lighting, post-processing, material layering, and virtualized geometry)
• Ability to develop tools and workflows that scale from stylized to realistic visual goals
• Familiarity with mobile GPU Frameworks, memory constraints, and cross-platform performance considerations
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across disciplines
• Ability to mentor and grow technical art teams, fostering both creative and technical excellence
• Experience with next-gen rendering features in Unreal Engine 5 (Lumen, Nanite, virtual shadow maps) and strategies for scaling them across hardware tiers

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 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…