Senior Technical Artist

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Remote

August 24, 2026

Application ends: November 21, 2026

REQUIREMENTS

Professional Technical Artist experience in game development.
Strong Unreal Engine experience, preferably UE5.
Strong general knowledge of real-time game art pipelines and technical-art production.
Strong experience with Unreal materials, shaders, rendering, or related visual systems.
Understanding of real-time rendering, profiling, optimization, and performance constraints.
Experience with game asset pipelines including meshes, textures, materials, LODs, collision, and asset organization.
Experience integrating and troubleshooting production assets in-engine.
Demonstrated ability to solve problems spanning both artistic and technical concerns.
Ability to independently investigate unfamiliar problems and develop practical production solutions.
Strong communication skills and experience collaborating directly with artists and engineers.
Ability to balance visual quality, production efficiency, technical constraints, and runtime performance.

Nice to Have

Python scripting or pipeline automation experience.
Unreal Blueprint experience.
HLSL or custom shader development experience.
Experience with procedural tools such as Houdini.
Experience with environment, character, vegetation, VFX, lighting, or procedural content pipelines.
Experience building reusable tools or workflows for artists.
Experience with DCC pipeline integration such as Maya, Blender, Substance, or similar tools.
Experience shipping PC or console titles using Unreal Engine.
Experience supporting multiple projects or production teams.

RESPONSIBILITES

Provide hands-on technical art support across a range of game development and production needs.
Develop, maintain, and optimize Unreal Engine materials, shaders, and rendering workflows.
Investigate and resolve visual, technical, performance, and asset integration problems.
Integrate art assets and ensure they meet visual, technical, and runtime requirements.
Profile and optimize content for rendering performance, memory use, shader complexity, and scalability.
Establish and maintain practical standards for assets, materials, textures, meshes, LODs, collision, naming, and project organization.
Develop or improve tools and workflows that increase artist efficiency and reduce repetitive production work.
Support artists with technical setup, debugging, implementation, and optimization.
Work with Art, Engineering, Design, Animation, Lighting, and other disciplines to solve cross-discipline production problems.
Evaluate workflows and identify technical risks or production bottlenecks before they become larger problems.
Review assets and implementation for technical quality, consistency, and performance.
Create documentation, examples, and reusable best practices for distributed development teams.
Adapt to different technical-art needs as project priorities and production requirements change.
Take ownership of technical-art problems from investigation through implementation, testing, and validation.