Senior Technical Artist (UE5)

Location: Remote within Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming; the Los Angeles area is preferred.

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops and publishes online games and other digital entertainment.

What you will do

• Provide hands-on technical art support across multiple Unreal Engine projects and production teams.
• Develop and improve tools, pipelines, systems, automation, and workflows for artists.
• Investigate and resolve technical, visual, performance, workflow, and asset-integration issues.
• Support environments, characters, materials, textures, VFX, animation, lighting, and other game content in-engine.
• Profile and optimize content for rendering performance, memory usage, scalability, and platform requirements.
• Collaborate with art, engineering, design, animation, VFX, lighting, and other disciplines to solve production challenges.

Requirements

• Professional Technical Artist experience in game development.
• Strong hands-on Unreal Engine experience, preferably UE5.
• Strong understanding of real-time game art and asset pipelines, including meshes, textures, materials, LODs, collision, and asset organization.
• Experience profiling, troubleshooting, optimizing, integrating, and debugging real-time game content.
• Expertise in at least one technical-art discipline, such as rendering, shaders, tools and pipelines, environments, character or animation pipelines, VFX, procedural content, or optimization.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Python scripting, automation, or pipeline development experience.
• Unreal Blueprint, HLSL, custom shader, Houdini, or DCC pipeline integration experience.
• Experience with Unreal profiling tools, PC or console development, and shipped Unreal Engine games.
• Experience building reusable tools, plugins, utilities, or workflows for artists.

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on work-life balance.
• Paid company holidays, vacation, and separate sick leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life/LTD insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.