Focus: Unreal Engine 5 Rendering, Materials & Art Tech 

Location: Remote  

Salary Range: Commensurate with Experience & Skills 

Role Description 

We’re looking for a Technical Artist with strong experience in rendering, materials, and shaders, supporting both characters and environment content within the Unreal 5 engine. This role partners closely with art, design, and engineering to help define scalable visual standards while maintaining performance and workflow efficiency. 

Responsibilities 

• Develop and maintain material and shader solutions used across characters and environments 
• Contribute to character rendering quality, including work on skin materials and shading, eye materials and rendering, and hair materials and shader setups. 
• Support broader rendering and tech art needs, including lighting and material workflows, optimization and performance profiling, and tooling and pipeline improvements for artists. 
• Collaborate with engineering to integrate and refine rendering features in Unreal Engine 
• Help diagnose and resolve visual or performance issues related to rendering and materials 
• Provide technical guidance to artists to ensure consistent, performant asset implementation 

Our Ideal Candidate… 

• 3+ years of professional experience as a Technical Artist or similar role in game development 
• Strong hands-on experience working in Unreal Engine 5 
• Solid understanding of eye shading, material layering, character hair solutions, and subsurface scattering workflows 
• Comfortable balancing visual quality with performance and production realities 
• Enjoys collaborating across art, design, and engineering disciplines 
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical teammates 
• Experience contributing to at least one shipped game title 

Bonus Points For… 

• Rigging, skinning, or animation pipeline experience 
• Experience with shader optimization and performance profiling 
• Familiarity with DCC tools such as Maya, Blender, or Substance 
• Experience supporting live games or post-launch optimization 

To Apply

Qualified candidates should send an email with a resume, cover letter, and portfolio/reel. Please indicate you are applying for the Technical Artist position.