Game Technical Artist

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A hands-on technical artist who owns the path from finished 2D art and animation to working assets in Unity. They build the tools, standards, and validation that make handoffs reliable, keep templates and IP reskins fast, and help the team adopt AI-assisted workflows where they genuinely help. As Technical Artist, you will own the tooling and standards behind this journey. You'll work directly with discipline leads and Engineering to cut manual work, catch integration errors early, and make sure assets look and behave in playable builds as intended.

Evaluate the art and animation pipeline and technical stack, identify visual or creative requirements that existing workflows cannot support, and propose practical solutions or alternatives that align with production constraints. Build and maintain tools:
Write practical scripts, exporters, importers, and validation checks that remove repetitive work. Define asset standards:
Set conventions for structure, naming, export settings, versioning, and "ready for implementation" criteria. Own Unity asset setup:
Define how visual assets and animations are integrated efficiently in Unity, including prefabs, reusable configurations, and animation integration. Validate in builds:
Check that assets look and behave correctly on device, and diagnose visual defects, integration issues, and mobile performance problems. Keep the pipeline healthy:
Find bottlenecks, trace recurring issues to their root cause, and fix them across Art, Animation, Design, and Engineering. Enable reuse:
Structure assets, rigs, animations, and setups so they carry across games, levels, and IP reskins with minimal rework. Evolve the workflow:
Evaluate new tools and pipeline changes, including our exploration of a move from Adobe Animate to Spine, and help teams adopt them. Introduce AI-assisted workflows:
Identify where AI tools can safely speed up production, pilot them with the team, set guardrails for quality and licensed-IP use, and document what works. Document and support:
Write clear documentation, train colleagues, and make tools usable by people with different levels of technical confidence.

Hands-on experience integrating 2D art and animation into Unity for shipped or production-ready games. Experience with node-based shader editors (e.g., Amplify Shader Editor, Shader Graph), including creating custom shaders and effects tailored to the creative needs of each project. Solid understanding of Unity’s different render pipelines, including their capabilities, limitations, and appropriate use cases. A solid grasp of 2D asset and animation pipelines, such as preparing layered art (e.g. PSD or Animate files) for export, sprite or skeletal animation, and atlas packing.

Scripting ability to automate real production problems. We care more about how you solve them than which language you use. C# for Unity editor tooling is most relevant, and Python or similar for external…