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.
Audio at Epic
What we do
We raise the quality level of audio in all Epic game titles and technologies as well as engage with a world-class team to create amazing gaming experiences.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic.
What you’ll do
As a member of the Epic Audio Team focusing on Special Projects, you will use your technical and creative skills to their fullest, helping define the future of interactive audio technology.
In this role, you will
- Help raise the quality level of audio in all Epic game titles and technologies.
- Push the development of audio features and integration for future Unreal audio engine development.
- Evangelize Unreal Engine as a leader in the interactive audio space by developing and sharing cutting edge creative and technical audio techniques with the broader game development community.
What we’re looking for
- A seasoned game audio veteran with a proven track record of creating compelling industry leading audio experiences with excellent knowledge and understanding of the video game development process.
- Demonstrated ability to create best in class sounds across various styles and aesthetics.
- Mastery over the entire sound creation process from field/studio recording, editing, designing, to implementation, debugging, and runtime systems.
- Previous experience in Research and Development, or multiple full cycles of pre-production through ship on a AAA scale game.
- Passionate About Games: Should be able to talk about and deconstruct other current games’ audio quality and implementation.
- Experience implementing complex interactive audio systems, preferably in multiple engines/middlewares.
Nice to have skills
- Music skills are a plus, but we are NOT looking for composers.
- Programming skills beyond runtime scripting are a big plus but not required
Remaining knowledge, skills, and abilities needed
- Strong self-management, organizational and problem solving skills, ability to work independently while having a great team player attitude.
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.
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!
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.
