Senior Technical Artist, Characters

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CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Senior Technical Artist with a focus on Characters Lookdev
to join our team in Warsaw to work on The Witcher 4. 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.

• 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.

• 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).
• 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.
• Proficient in material creation and building a scalable material library.
• Experience with Substance Designer in a production environment.
• 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.

• Experience in creating tools using Blueprints
• Knowledge of the character creation pipeline
• Proficient in material creation
• Skilled in Python scripting

Please include a portfolio that showcases your technical art contributions and, if possible, code samples or relevant tools/scripts that demonstrate your problem-solving and development skills.

• Office-First: working primarily from the Warsaw office. Our team works primarily from our Warsaw office, so we give priority to candidates who are open to relocating to Poland.
• For selected roles, remote work from within Europe may be considered.

• Relocation package – flight ticket, company apartment for your first month, relocating your pet, shipping your belongings — it’s all covered.
• Relocation assistance — processing your legalization operations for you, assistance with finding residence, tax settlements — all you need to feel right at home is taken care of.
• Polish lessons for foreign employees — and for your spouse or partner, too.
• Life insurance — comprehensive pension and…