Senior Technical Artist (Unreal Generalist)

We are looking for a skilled and well-rounded technical artist with a passion for game-making, knack for problem-solving, and interest in process and workflow efficiency, to join our team as the critical bridge between technology and art. Tech artists will collaborate with programmers, designers and artists to help build and support the pipelines to ensure successful asset/content deliveries from source art to final runtime.  

Responsibilities:

  Own specific content creation pipeline or systems, such as World Partition Streaming Setup / HLOD Generation pipeline. Collaborate with Engineering regarding performance and memory 

Help identify game performance issues and bottlenecks and assist with general art content optimization 

Act as professional user, content developer, and engineering liaison in areas related to Unreal Engine to ensure proper usage/adoption as well as prototype/implement new features that meet functional and aesthetic requirements  

Support content creation in engine and build pipelines and tools as needed. 

Educate and train tech artists that may be less experienced in Unreal on standard methodologies and make suggestions on problem solving approaches and techniques  

Troubleshoot various Unreal content authoring related issues encountered by users  

Produce assets that require Unreal technical expertise (I.e. setting up blueprints, shader networks, etc)  

Collaborate with artists, TDs, and engineers to design/implement feature and pipeline improvements that directly meet production needs  

Evaluate and incorporate new engine release features into production workflow as they become available  

Write clear, maintainable code within the structure of studio code library  

Create/Maintain Unreal usage documentation  

Requirements & Skills:

  (Required) 5+ years of professional experience in game development as a tech art generalist 

(Required) Unreal Engine World Partition Streaming / HLOD familiarity 

(Required) Unreal Engine Expertise both as power-user and developer (Blueprint & C++), Ability to expose C++ properties to Python/Blueprint 

(Required) Strong Blueprint/Python experience in the areas of tools and UI (EUW, PyQt) 

(Required) Runtime rendering profile and optimization experience 

(Preferred) Knowledge/familiarity of various CG art fields (ex: modeling, materials, animation, lighting, vfx, etc) and how they are interconnected  

(Preferred) Maya proficiency 

(Bonus) Experience with writing shaders 

(Bonus) Maya API / Plugin Experience 

Qualities:

  Proven track record to balance multiple tasks in a fast-paced development environment 

Self-motivated and capable to find solutions on one's own  

Capable of switching tasks quickly to address emergent production issues in a professional manner  

Great verbal and written communication skills to articulate issues and risks  

Collaborative, team oriented, and open to peer feedback  

Ability to learn, incorporate new features and techniques quickly into workflow  

High desire/focus to help making artists' lives better and processes more efficient/scalable, mindful of areas of workflow improvement  

Great attention to details, and ability to deliver consistent results