Principal Technical Artist

Role Overview

• Own the technical content stack.
• Build and ship tools.
• Drive AI-augmented workflows.
• Optimize real-time performance.
• Work across disciplines.
• Set the craft bar.
• Move quickly.
• Use AI tooling actively.

Requirements

• 8+ years as a technical artist or in a closely adjacent role, with at least one shipped product on a real-time, physically based rendering pipeline.
• Expert-level proficiency in Unreal Engine 5 including materials, Blueprints, performance profiling, the asset pipeline, and the engine's deeper rendering features.
• Productive across some combination of Python, C++, HLSL, VEX, and shell.
• Demonstrated ability to take open-ended content or workflow problems, scope them yourself, and ship working systems the team adopts—without extensive hand-holding.
• Working command of LLM-based coding tools, generative content tooling, and the broader category of AI tools reshaping technical art.
• Equally comfortable talking shaders with rendering engineers, performance with simulation engineers, and tradeoffs with non-technical product partners.
• Able to move pragmatically across content creation, tooling, rendering, performance, and pipeline.

Tech Stack

• Python
• Unreal Engine

Benefits

• full health/dental/vision coverage
• learning stipend
• generous vacation
• equity