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Senior Experience Designer
2 years ago
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.
Design At Epic
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.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
What You'll Do
Epic Games is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join the Advanced Project team to work on innovative next-gen projects using cutting edge engine features. In this role, you'll utilize your experience, knowledge of design tools, and a strong sense of innovation to push the quality of the project and delight users with fresh experiences.
In This Role You Will
- Think outside the box to deliver new user experiences.
- Own the implementation of large parts of these experiences from start to finish. Blueprint scripting, replication, sequences, replays
- Be the go-to person for the implementation of complex content that stretches the capabilities of existing systems, or projects that require heavy artist/designer/engineer interaction
- Advocate for player experience and for creating compelling user stories
- Built in-engine tools to help the team achieve their goal
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years professional experience designing a wide variety of gameplay systems in Unreal Engine, with at least one shipped game or several interactive projects.
- An advanced Blueprint user comfortable building everything from 1st person shooter logic to touchscreen interactions and editor tools
- Broad knowledge of the Unreal Engine editor
- Strong understanding of Gameplay Frameworks
- Extensive problem solving skills and debugging abilities
- Ability to communicate your ideas and collaborate with others
- You’re user-focused, self-driven, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
Nice To Have Skills
- Experience with Unreal Engine GAS
- Experience with network replication
- Basic C++ knowledge
- 3D Generalist understanding
Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay for 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. We offer coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k.
All Epic employees enjoy drinks, snacks, and lunches every day, free of charge - and we offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love we have for our people. Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our people are pretty awesome!
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 12 countries with 32 studios and 3,000+ 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.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
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.
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