SENIOR TECHNICAL ARTIST (AMIQUS)

🕹 New AAA open world title (Unreal 5)
🧠 Senior
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote (UK or EU within 2 hours of UK time)

🦄 Description
A South-East based games studio is expanding their art team to create a new AAA quality open world title that aims to deliver best-in-class experiences and memorable moments for players. They are looking for a Senior Technical Artist to collaborate closely with the Art Director, bridging the gap between artists and engineers, ensuring an efficient art pipeline, creating tools for various teams and helping to optimise the game.
You will help define the visual and technical vision for the title, combining a 50/50 mix of coding and artistic skills. The studio is around 25 people and the project is still early in development, giving you the opportunity to shape the game from the ground up, wear multiple hats and grow as a tools, pipeline, hardware, graphics specialist or as a generalist.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Collaborate closely with the Art Director to define and maintain the visual and technical vision for the project
• Bridge communication and workflows between artists and engineers
• Design, implement and maintain an efficient art content pipeline
• Create and maintain tools for artists, designers and other content teams
• Work on materials and shaders to support the visual quality of a high-end AAA open world title
• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve art pipeline issues across the project
• Optimise assets and workflows for performance on target platforms (console and PC)
• Support a remote-first development environment, communicating clearly with a distributed team
• Take ownership in key technical art areas, wearing multiple hats as needed (tools, pipeline, hardware, graphics)

📚 Required Skills
• At least 4 years of experience in the games industry
• Proven experience on at least one console or PC game
• Strong balance of coding/scripting and art skills (approximately 50/50)
• Production experience with Unreal Engine 4 or Unreal Engine 5 (must have)
• Solid understanding of performance considerations for high-end AAA titles
• Experience working with materials and shaders in a real-time engine
• Comfortable diagnosing and solving pipeline and content creation issues
• Strong communication skills for working between art and engineering teams
• Eligibility to work remotely from the UK (preferred) or an EU country within 2 hours of UK time
• Ability to work full-time in a remote-first environment
• Right to work without visa sponsorship

👍 Nice to Have
• Experience working on open world games
• Experience with Houdini in a game production context
• Background in tools, pipeline, hardware or graphics specialisation
• Previous experience in small or mid-sized teams where you wore multiple hats
• Prior involvement in AAA or high-end game development
• Experience optimising large-scale environments and streaming content
• Familiarity with remote collaboration tools and workflows

🍪 What we offer
• Competitive salary package
• Exclusive studio benefits
• Flexitime and a remote-first work pattern
• Supplied equipment for comfortable remote working
• Shares/equity options
• Pension scheme
• Generous holiday allowance
• Opportunity to join a small team of around 25 people with a strong track record of high-selling games
• Chance to influence a new AAA open world title from an early stage of development
• Room to grow as a specialist (tools, pipeline, hardware, graphics) or as a generalist technical artist
• Collaborative environment with experienced developers and a focus on long-lasting player experiences

📞 Contact
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