Rendering Technical Artist - Unpublished R&D; Product (Unreal Engine 5)

Company

Riot Games develops player-focused video games, including League of Legends, and is building an unpublished R&D product.

What you will do

• Develop scalable rendering solutions that translate visual direction into consistent real-time visuals across hardware platforms.
• Create, maintain, and optimize Unreal Engine 5 materials, shaders, and related rendering content.
• Collaborate with rendering engineers, artists, and designers to deliver solutions within performance budgets.
• Define rendering scalability settings, quality tiers, and fallback strategies for different hardware configurations.
• Profile and optimize shader performance, GPU workloads, memory utilization, and asset loading.
• Improve rendering workflows, technical standards, production tools, and documentation while providing technical guidance on complex rendering challenges.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in technical art, real-time graphics, or related game development disciplines, including 4+ years working with Unreal Engine.
• Experience contributing rendering or technical art solutions to a shipped or long-running production project.
• Proficiency with UE5 material systems, shaders, and real-time rendering workflows, including the ability to read and write HLSL.
• Strong understanding of real-time rendering principles, lighting, material behavior, and content production workflows.
• Experience translating visual direction into technical rendering implementations involving materials, lighting, post-processing, or visual composition.
• Experience using profiling and performance analysis tools to identify and resolve GPU, shader, memory, and rendering performance issues across hardware configurations.
• Experience documenting technical solutions and collaborating with artists and engineers to balance visual quality, performance, and maintainability.

Nice to have

• Experience adapting rendering solutions across multiple platforms, including quality tiers, feature fallbacks, and performance optimization strategies.
• Experience developing stylized rendering solutions or rendering systems for characters, environments, visual effects, vegetation, or related visual content.
• Experience establishing asset standards, rendering guidelines, technical documentation, or performance budget frameworks.
• Experience implementing and optimizing advanced UE5 rendering features, including Lumen, Nanite, and Virtual Shadow Maps.

Culture & Benefits

• Player-focused game development with an emphasis on player empathy and delight.
• Collaborative work across engineering, art, and design disciplines.
• Craft expertise, experimentation, and decision-making that challenges constraints are valued.