SENIOR TECHNICAL ARTIST (STRIKERZ)

🕹 Unknown
🧠 Senior
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote / 👔 Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪

🦄 Description
Strikerz is looking for a talented Technical Artist to join their team and contribute to the development of top-quality console projects. You will design and maintain tools and workflows, support multiple art and engineering teams, optimise assets and rendering, and contribute to improving production efficiency. The role includes collaboration across character art, material art, UI, animation and development art, as well as supporting both proprietary and third-party tools. The team values creativity, technical expertise and proactive communication in a fast-paced environment.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Design, implement and maintain tools and workflows to improve production efficiency
• Develop and optimise game features in Unreal Engine
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across pipelines
• Collaborate with character, material, development art, UI, animation and engineering teams
• Support tools and pipelines used across Unreal Engine, 3ds Max, Maya, Blender and Substance Painter
• Conduct R&D to introduce new techniques that enhance visual quality and performance
• Create and maintain documentation for tools, pipelines and best practices
• Optimise assets, shaders and rendering setups
• Support VFX workflows and contribute to effects creation
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams and communicate progress proactively
• Provide technical guidance and mentor junior team members

📚 Required Skills
• 4+ years of experience as a Technical Artist in game development
• Expertise in Python and Unreal Engine Blueprints
• Proven experience with Unreal Engine 5 pipelines, shaders, materials and optimisation
• Experience with cloth simulation and physics systems
• Strong understanding of art workflows including modelling, texturing, rigging, animation and rendering
• Ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and propose solutions
• Strong communication skills and ability to bridge art and engineering
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Up-to-date portfolio

👍 Nice to Have
• Experience creating or supporting VFX in Unreal Engine
• Strong programming and scripting skills in C++ and Python
• Knowledge of Houdini workflows
• Experience with version control systems such as Perforce or Git
• Background in sports games or large-scale simulation projects
• Familiarity with automation pipelines for asset processing

🍪 What we offer
• Salary pegged to the US Dollar
• Medical insurance and social benefits
• Sick-leaves
• Remote work
• Referral bonuses
• Sports compensation
• Online English classes
• Co-working compensation
• Opportunity to join an international team developing high-quality console projects

🌐 Vacancy link

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Senior Technical Artist