Senior Technical Artist, Environment (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Artist, Environment (Gamedev): Developing systems, tools, and workflows for creating expansive and evolving game environments, focusing on procedural workflows, modular asset systems, and tools for efficient, high-fidelity worldbuilding. Focus on translating creative vision into performant, scalable content supporting exploration and gameplay in a sprawling open world.

Location: Los Angeles, USA

Salary: $185,200.00 - $258,000.00 USD

Company

hirify.global is dedicated to creating games and experiences that make it better to be a player.

What you will do

• Build and maintain procedural and targeted tools for scalable environment asset creation in Houdini, Unreal, and other pipelines.
• Author and maintain tools that enable modular workflows, from terrain generation and biome setup to foliage systems and world composition.
• Contribute to worldbuilding, working directly in-engine to prototype and improve asset fidelity, modular kits, and visual consistency across biomes.
• Develop and maintain Unreal Engine 5 environment tools, including landscape systems, foliage, spline tools, and material workflows.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks in content pipelines and propose systemic, scalable solutions.
• Contribute to the visual and technical evolution of the world, ensuring tools keep pace with the ecosystem of environments, systems, and gameplay needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years as a Technical Artist or Environment TD in games or related industries, with a focus on environment content development.
• Proven experience with Houdini or equivalent procedural systems used in games for terrain, layout, or asset generation.
• Strong proficiency in 3D modeling, texturing, and lighting, with working knowledge of tools like Maya, Blender, 3ds Max, ZBrush, etc.
• Experience scripting in Python, Blueprint, or similar languages to build tools or automate workflows.
• Deep familiarity with Unreal Engine 5’s worldbuilding tools.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-discipline and support artists, designers, and engineers through technical collaboration and tool iteration.

Nice to have

• Experience building or supporting large-scale open worlds, MMOs, or multiplayer games with persistent or procedural environments.
• Experience using Substance Designer, Houdini Copernicus, or other procedural texture/material generation tools.
• Familiarity with cross-discipline workflows, especially integrating art pipelines with level design, gameplay systems, and engine constraints.
• A strong eye for environmental storytelling, with an interest in translating narrative and gameplay needs into scalable technical solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance.
• Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
• 401k with company match.