Senior Technical Artist

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain procedural content generation tools and systems within Unreal Engine to enable scalable and dynamic game environments.
• Collaborate with art and design teams to incorporate PCG workflows that facilitate rapid content iteration and optimization.
• Create and optimize shaders, materials, and procedural assets, ensuring high performance and quality standards.
• Profile engine performance related to procedural content and implement improvements.
• Prototype new procedural techniques and workflows to push the boundaries of game art technology.
• Provide technical guidance and documentation on PCG pipelines for the development team.
• Maintain and enforce technical standards and guidelines for procedural content creation.
• Review and optimize existing art pipelines to incorporate procedural generation techniques effectively.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the game development or other CG industry.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Technical Artist.
• Strong expertise with Unreal Engine, with a focus on Procedural Content Generation (PCG) tools and pipelines.
• Proficiency in shader development and material creation within Unreal Engine.
• Experience with Houdini, especially its integration with Unreal Engine for procedural asset creation.
• Solid understanding of procedural systems, scripting, and automation within game development.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-disciplinary teams.
• Extensive experience with Unreal Engine Blueprints for procedural content pipelines.
• Proficient in Python scripting and its use in procedural asset workflows.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine's PCG framework and procedural mesh generation.
• Experience with engine profiling, memory, and performance optimization related to procedural content.
• Ability to create clean, maintainable, and user-friendly tools for automation.
• Experience with version control systems.
• Knowledge of Substance Designer/Painter and texture generation/compression techniques (nice to have).
• Knowledge and experience working in DCC tools such as Blender, Maya, or 3DS Max (nice to have).
• Background in creating reusable procedural assets and systems for large-scale game production (nice to have).
• Solid understanding of art fundamentals and asset creation pipelines (nice to have).
• The ability to read and understand C++ code (nice to have).