Technical Artist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Expertise in industry-standard DCC tools (Maya, Max, Blender, Substance, Photoshop) to create 2D and 3D assets specifically for high-end realtime environments.
• Proficiency in Unreal Engine, including Blueprinting and deep experience with lighting, rendering, and content integration for Virtual Production pipelines.
• Strong understanding of realtime performance constraints, with the ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks within Unreal to maintain high frame rates on target devices.
• Past experience working on photo-real PC projects and Virtual Production workflows, including color-managed pipelines (ACES/OCIO) and HDR rendering.
• Strong proficiency in shader development (HLSL/GLSL) to optimize visual quality while adhering to strict realtime performance objectives.
• Proactive in preempting and addressing performance limitations on target devices.
• Proficient in using performance tools within the engine and on devices to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Proficient working with version control for all work (Perforce, git or other), including work in progress.
• Experience writing and editing clear technical documentation.
• Strong proficiency in creating and optimising through the development of shaders, with a deep understanding of HLSL or GLSL.
• Capable of planning, designing and implementing solutions to a broad range of technical art problems.
• Able to communicate technical issues to non-technical team members.
• A passion and willingness to explore new skills and techniques for themselves and any assigned mentees.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise, advice, and solutions to artists, animators, and riggers as required.
• Collaborate across departments and with management to devise comprehensive solutions for quality enhancement and iteration efficiency.
• Research and suggest appropriate tools and processes for projects.
• Independently extract well-defined requirements from creative and artistic briefs.
• Set performance and memory objectives and establish testing methods.
• Understand quality / performance trade-offs and develop solutions that maximize both.
• Manage multiple concurrent tasks from planning to development and delivery.
• Adhere to and contribute to technical art best practices, processes, pipelines and tools.
• Conduct code and content performance reviews as needed.
• Thoroughly test all work in builds before submission.
• Identify potential risks associated with changes prior to submission to source control.
• Understand roles in a scrum environment and assist in the definition of technical art tasks.
• Attend daily standups, break down assigned tasks and provide estimates during sprint planning or other planning exercises.
• Proactively identify potential project challenges and propose feasible solutions.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation as needed.

Benefits

• ongoing education
• mentorship opportunities
• generous health care
• time off