Senior Experience Designer

Epic Games
Cary, Bellevue, Larkspur, Culver City, Austin, NC, WA, CA, TX, USA
Job type: Permanent

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Job Description

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 Sr. Experience Designer to build cutting-edge interactive experiences with Unreal Engine 5 across industries such as film, tv, manufacturing & games. 

In this role, you will

  • Own the implementation of all interactive aspects of a project - setup, Blueprint scripting, Gameplay Frameworks, player systems, sequencer, UI, etc.

  • 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.

  • Think outside the box to deliver a novel experience using cutting edge technologies.

  • Stay up to date on the latest Unreal Engine features and technologies.

Skills & Requirements

What we’re looking for

  • 5+ years of game design experience with at least two AAA shipped games of similar experiences.

  • Ability to design an Unreal Engine experience from top to bottom - mockup, project setup, Blueprint interactions, game systems, UI, audio hookup, etc. 

  • You are user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do. 

  • Experienced designing interactions and interfaces for hardware and software.

  • Ability to communicate your ideas well and to and collaborate with others.

Nice to have skills

  • Experience with network replication

  • Tech art knowledge

  • C++ knowledge

About Us

Epic Games spans across 12 countries with 32 studios and 1,800+ 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.

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 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!

Additional Information

  • Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

About the Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.

Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.