Technical Artist (GameDev)

TL;DR

Technical Artist (GameDev): Optimizing game performance for Nintendo Switch 2 within a custom engine environment with an accent on asset and rendering system scaling and pipeline efficiency. Focus on solving technical challenges, profiling performance, and shaping workflows for multi-platform development.

Location: Remote. Must be based in Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Romania, UK, or Ukraine.

Company

Room8 Group is an end-to-end strategic partner in external game development, providing creative and technical expertise for AAA and AA games across all platforms.

What you will do

• Profile, diagnose, and resolve CPU, GPU, and memory bottlenecks.
• Adapt assets and content to meet Switch 2 platform constraints.
• Improve tools, asset pipelines, and optimization processes in a proprietary engine.
• Define and implement best practices for LODs, textures, materials, and draw-call efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with art and engineering teams to maintain visual quality while achieving performance targets.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years as a Technical Artist or similar role.
• Strong understanding of real-time rendering and game optimization.
• Experience optimizing constrained or handheld platforms (e.g., Switch, mobile).
• Comfortable working with custom/proprietary engines and evolving pipelines.
• Technical proficiency in shader development, profiling tools, and scripting (Python, C#, or C++).

Nice to have

• Experience shipping titles on Nintendo platforms or similar hardware.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive financial reward.
• Challenges to raise your XPs score working on the projects of the top global game dev publishers.
• A culture of diversity and inclusion to unite the most outstanding talents.
• Community of people who understand and share your passion for games.