Principal Technical Artist

You will own technical content pipelines, procedural tooling, material systems, performance budgets, and content validation. You will build tools in Unreal Engine and Houdini, introduce AI-assisted workflows, profile and optimize GPU and CPU performance, prototype production solutions, and coordinate technical tradeoffs across content, rendering, simulation, ML, and product disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Own asset pipelines, procedural tooling, material systems, performance budgets, and content validation
• Build and ship tools in Unreal Engine and Houdini
• Drive AI-augmented content workflows
• Profile and optimize GPU and CPU performance in Unreal Engine
• Translate tradeoffs between content fidelity and runtime performance
• Prototype and harden production solutions
• Use AI tooling for coding, scripting, and asset generation

Requirements

• 8+ years as a technical artist or in a closely adjacent role
• Experience with a shipped product using a real-time physically based rendering pipeline
• Expert proficiency with Unreal Engine 5, including materials, Blueprints, performance profiling, asset pipelines, and rendering features
• Programming proficiency with Python, C++, HLSL, VEX, or shell
• Experience shipping adopted content or workflow systems
• Experience with LLM-based coding tools and generative content tooling
• Ability to work across content creation, tooling, rendering, performance, and pipeline work

Benefits

• Equity
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Learning stipend
• Generous vacation