Lead Technical Artist

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor the Technical Art team
• Act as the main bridge between Art, Design and Engineering to ensure seamless integration of technical art workflows.
• Bring senior hands-on expertise, not just leadership.
• Design, Support and implement systems for procedural world generation.
• Develop and refine workflows for Terrain generation in Unreal Engine 5, balancing artistic direction and technical efficiency.
• Prototype and integrate new techniques to make the world creation scalable and varied.
• Drive implementation and optimization of Lumen-based and non Lumen lighting setups for lower end machines, ensuring consistent visual quality and performance.
• Collaborate with tech art to establish best practices for real-time lighting.
• Profile and optimize or pin point improvement for art assets, shaders, and systems to maintain stable performance across platforms.
• Define or improve current performance budgets and create tools to help artists stay within technical constraints while pushing for optimal balance of visual quality and performance
• Integrate, validate assets and optimize their visual performance in the engine
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues related to rendering, memory, and load times.
• Build and maintain Blueprints, scripts, and custom tools to streamline asset integration and support artists in their workflows.
• Script custom tools in Python, C++, or using Unreal's scripting systems to automate tasks and empower the art team to work more efficiently.
• Provide technical guidance on environment and asset pipelines.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Senior/Principal Technical Artist or Lead Technical Artist in the game industry.
• Strong expertise with Unreal Engine 5 and previous version with minimum 4 years experience, particularly environment/world workflows, Blueprints, and scripting.
• Hands-on experience with PCG procedural environment generation
• Knowledge of large world island/terrain generation techniques within Unreal.
• Solid understanding of Lumen lighting/non lumen and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of the Graphic Rendering Pipeline for next-gen technologies especially Unreal Engine 5
• Experience mentoring technical artists and guiding cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Location:

Preferable Locations: Asia and Europe

Benefits:

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