Senior Technical Artist; ААА

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain procedural content generation pipelines that meet visual and performance goals.
• Develop and refine tools, workflows, and techniques for optimizing game assets, shaders, and environments in Unreal Engine or clients' proprietary engines.
• Support scalability and optimization of UE5 pipelines and rendering workflows.
• Create and maintain documentation for optimization processes, tools, workflows, and best practices.
• Collaborate closely with the art and engineering teams to ensure that the game's visual quality is maintained while meeting performance targets of multiple platforms.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in game development or other CG industry.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Technical Artist.
• Proficient in using Unreal Engine 4 or 5 or any other industry‑leading game engines with a deep understanding of its art and rendering pipelines.
• Solid understanding of performance optimization techniques and best practices in game development.
• UE5’s PCG expertise.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively with artists, designers, and programmers.
• Strong problem‑solving abilities to identify and address issues in procedural content generation processes.
• Willingness to adapt to changing project requirements and able to iterate and improve procedural systems based on feedback.

• Experience in material creation & optimization (Master Materials, Material Functions, Material Layers, Material Collection Parameters).
• Environment asset pipeline knowledge (Displacement, Decimation Workflow, Modular Workflow, Texel Density, Collisions, Sculpting, UVs, Building Creations).
• Experience with world building systems (Landscape, RVT, Foliage, Procedural Foliage).
• Knowledge of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation software (Maya, 3ds Max, ZBrush, Blender, Substance Package).
• Expertise in developing custom tools and scripts to enhance and streamline art workflows.
• Expertise in creating and optimizing shaders, materials, and visual effects for game environments.
• Scripting languages (Python, VEX, MEL, MaxScript).
• Experience with VFX software like Embergen or Unreal Niagara.
• Work alongside industry veterans.
• Contribute to the world’s biggest AAA games.
• Flexible working hours.
• Hybrid work culture.

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