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Technical Designer
3 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.
What you’ll do
You'll be responsible for designing and implementing building blocks that empower Creators to make interactive experiences within Fortnite's Creative mode.
In this role, you will
- Design new features in a way that maximizes flexibility and creativity for end users while maintaining accessibility and usability
- Own implementation of from start to finish, from Design through Scripting, Iteration and Polish
- Coordinate with teams throughout Epic and beyond to ensure designer-led features have the necessary support from other disciplines to provide the best possible experience
- Suggest and make development trade-offs to meet development time or performance requirements
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years technical design experience on shipped games
- You have a proven ability to communicate your ideas and collaborate with others to create clear, concise design specs as well as your own functional prototypes
- You have professional experience with the Blueprint visual scripting language and are accustomed to writing clean, readable visual scripts that are production-ready, as well as being able to review Blueprint from other developers to highlight issues and provide suggestions for improvement
- Strong system design thinking, with a propensity for finding the best bang-for-the-buck for building-blocks you are designing
- A broad skill set is a strength! As a small team, we highly value those who can contribute to on multiple fronts
- Experience and dedication to developing high quality player experiences
- Experience with network replication in Unreal Engine
Nice to have skills
- Experience with C, C++, Lua, or other programming and/or scripting languages a plus.
- Familiarity with Fortnite Creative
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!
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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