Senior Advanced Technical Artist

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada; candidates must be located in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, or Nova Scotia, Canada

Company

Game development studio known for co-developing AAA first-person shooter games and creating original intellectual property.

What you will do

• Develop custom workflows, scripts, and coded tools for the art team.
• Maintain art pipeline integrity by identifying inefficiencies and implementing improvements.
• Troubleshoot pipeline issues and solve technical problems with the development team.
• Support technical art requirements for client-facing projects and partners.
• Facilitate communication across disciplines through clear feedback and guidance.
• Collaborate with the art and development teams to improve game visuals and encourage innovation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of game industry experience, including 4+ years in a technical artist role.
• Experience developing pipelines with Substance Designer, Substance Painter, or Houdini.
• At least one shipped AAA title as a Technical Artist.
• Programming experience with Python, MEL, C#, or C++.
• Expert-level knowledge of Maya, Max, Blender, or Modo, plus experience with performance, materials, and Unreal Engine tooling.
• Experience with destruction or cloth, multiple 3D game engines, environment-art tools, and a broad range of graphics technologies and hardware; portfolio required.

Nice to have

• Interest in real-time rendering technologies and art asset creation tools.
• A shipped project as a Senior Technical Artist using Unreal Engine.
• Experience owning shaders, material pipelines, real-time rendering, runtime analytics, and optimization for AAA projects.
• Experience researching graphics systems and middleware packages.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Company culture emphasizes evolution, diversity, excellence, and work-life balance.
• Collaborate with teams connected to physical locations in Austin, Texas, and Toronto, Canada.