Senior Technical Artist, Characters

You’ll bring advanced skills—both artistic and technical—along with attention to detail and a passion for crafting expressive, high-quality characters that meet our ambitious visual and performance goals. This role offers the chance to collaborate closely with developers across disciplines to push what's possible in real-time character creation.

Daily Responsibilities

• Create and maintain key character shaders, encompassing both custom shader code and work within the Unreal Engine Material Editor, with a strong focus on optimization.

• Utilize C++ and deep Unreal Engine experience to build robust tools and support technical pipelines.

• Apply strong rendering knowledge to ensure visual fidelity and conduct detailed performance / memory profiling to identify and resolve bottlenecks.

• Fine tune materials and shaders to behave correctly under different lighting conditions. Discuss, collaborate and feedback with the lighting team and other technical artists.

• Build tools and workflows to empower content creators, leveraging both Blueprints and C++ integration.

• Identify and resolve pipeline challenges, support asset optimization, and ensure smooth delivery across all target platforms.

• Explore and implement new Unreal Engine features, collaborating closely with engineers and Epic Games to expand what's possible in real-time content creation.

• Mentor teammates and help foster a supportive, collaborative tech art culture where curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and experimentation are encouraged.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in a technical art role within game development.

• Proficiency with Unreal Engine 5, including shader development and system integration.

• Experience with 3D content creation software (e.g. Blender, Autodesk Maya, Substance Painter).

• Tool development experience using C++.

• Experienced in shader creation and optimization (both in code and within Material Editor) preferably with some experience with character, skin and cloth, related materials.

• Experience with HLSL.

• Understanding of different lighting techniques in Unreal, released and experimental.

• Strong understanding of rendering systems and techniques.

• Skilled in performance and memory profiling.

• Track record of solving complex technical challenges and debugging with precision.

• Self-motivated, goal-driven, and experienced in taking ownership of high-impact tasks.

• Strong cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication skills.

• Comfortable communicating in English in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in creating tools using Blueprints

• Knowledge of the character creation pipeline

• Proficient in material creation

• Skilled in Python scripting

• Familiar with Substance Painter and Substance Designer