# Principal Environment Artist at Epic Games

- Company: Epic Games
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/home
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://epicgames.com/careers/jobs/6130892004?gh_jid=6130892004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/epic-games-principal-environment-artist-2/

## About the role

Epic Games is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to help define and elevate the visual quality of Fortnite’s worlds. This role combines hands-on environment art production, artistic leadership, and technical problem-solving.

## What they're looking for

- 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
- Preferably 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
- Experience developing or improving environment art workflows, pipelines, documentation, or quality standards
- Experience reviewing the work of other artists and providing actionable artistic and technical feedback

Tags: Art