Senior Technical Artist - Characters (Unreal)

Location: Montreal, QC, Canada; office-based

Company

hirify.global develops original gaming experiences across global teams, including franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six, and Just Dance.

What you will do

• Define and implement the end-to-end character production pipeline from concept handoff to Unreal Engine integration.
• Establish standards for asset structures, naming and export conventions, versioning, rigs, skeletons, materials, and textures.
• Create or recommend tools such as export automation, asset validators, rig builders, and batch-processing utilities.
• Optimize and debug character assets for geometry, draw calls, skinning cost, memory usage, and shader complexity.
• Resolve complex issues involving deformation quality, cloth and hair integration, and modular character systems.
• Collaborate with animation and programming teams on character features and runtime systems, and document technical standards and tools.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with an end-to-end character pipeline and integrating character assets into a game engine.
• Knowledge of rigging and animation requirements sufficient to guide the pipeline and collaborate with animation teams.
• Knowledge of technical budgets, polygon counts, materials, asset structures, and modular character customization.
• Experience establishing workflows and standards for character production.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 5 or relevant character pipeline experience with Unreal Engine 4.
• CV and portfolio or links to relevant projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment.
• Office-based work in Montreal.
• Collaboration with global gaming teams and technical, animation, and programming specialists.