Technical Artist (Environment Tool)

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain pipeline tools for environment artists and technical artists, streamlining asset creation, integration, and validation.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, environment artists, and design teams to recognize needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Contribute to art workflows and process improvements, ensuring consistency, scalability, and ease of use across the team.
• Assist with performance profiling and optimization, including materials, shaders, and scene organization within Unreal Engine.
• Support content integration, helping artists debug and resolve technical issues in daily production.
• Document tools and workflows, ensuring new features are well-understood and accessible to the broader team.
• Prototype new ideas that enhance efficiency, creative flexibility, or visual quality.
• Participate in technical reviews and planning, providing feedback and insight into process bottlenecks and potential improvements

Who You Are

• You have experience working as a Technical Artist in game development with Unreal Engine.
• You have scripting skills in C++ for Unreal Engine or advanced Unreal Blueprint code, used for tool development or automation.
• You are familiar with game asset pipelines, including modeling, texturing, materials, and level integration.
• You can balance artistic needs with technical constraints, helping ensure assets are both visually appealing and performant.
• You're a collaborative problem solver, comfortable communicating across disciplines.
• You're curious, proactive, and motivated to learn from other tech artists and engineers to expand your technical and creative range.
• You're known for taking initiative - seeing something that could be improved, and building the tool or workflow to make it better.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Python or other scripting languages used for game development.
• Familiarity with DCC tool APIs such as Maya, Blender, or similar.