Senior Technical Artist - Remote

Overview

As a Senior Technical Artist, you will be working alongside a talented art team driving forward cutting-edge visuals, providing technical guidance and defining art workflow and pipelines.

In Short

• Full time (37.5 hours per week)
• 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
• Fully remote within the UK
• Salary is competitive and dependent on experience

Requirements

• Shader development: Create, refine, and iterate on shaders and master materials within Unreal Engine's node graph and HLSL shader code, ensuring they are built in a user-friendly way for the art team.
• Shader optimization and profiling: Experienced in optimizing shaders across multiple platforms, including mobile, to enhance memory usage and performance.
• VFX Optimization: Provide technical support and guidance for the creation and optimization of VFX, with expertise in Niagara.
• Work with counterparts on the engineering and art teams, guiding feature development accessibility.
• Consult other disciplines (e.g. programmers, artists, designers), seeking feedback before and after implementation.
• Champion the tech art requirements for the studio.
• Create scope for others, break down work to be undertaken in parallel, calling out dependencies and review points.
• Improve the efficiency and/or developer experience of other staff, via software or process.

Benefits

• Collaborate with veterans of the industry for personal development.
• Mentoring and peer critiquing opportunities.
• Foster a creative environment that encourages self-improvement and ownership.
• Establish pipelines and processes that empower discovery.