TL;DR

Technical Artist (Game Development): Optimizing lighting and performance for an AAA Unreal Engine 5 game to maintain a stable framerate while preserving visual quality. Focus on identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, optimizing assets and scenes, and collaborating with artists and programmers to implement effective trade-offs.

Location: Skövde, Örebro, Stockholm or Remote

Company

%hirify_global% is an engineer-driven partner studio in game development, helping studios with everything from co-dev to optimization and porting.

What you will do

Create and tweak lighting and post-process effects in UE5 to achieve the desired mood and readability.
Identify performance bottlenecks (GPU/CPU), analyze rendering costs, and drive actions that deliver measurable results.
Optimize overdraw/fillrate by reducing unnecessary pixel costs through material choices and scene structure.
Implement LOD/HLOD strategies, Nanite/instancing, and asset decimation to optimize assets and scenes.
Propose and establish content guidelines to ensure team consistency and efficiency.
Collaborate with artists and programmers to implement trade-offs and push improvements through the pipeline.

Requirements

Experience as a Technical Artist (or related role) in real-time graphics, preferably games, and hands-on experience in Unreal Engine (UE4/UE5).
Ability to read profiling data and translate it into concrete changes in content/scene/materials/settings.
Strong understanding of the balance between performance and art direction.
Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively between art and code.
Portfolio showcasing improvements to real-time performance and/or lighting.

Nice to have

Coding skills in Blueprints, C++, and/or Python/tools scripting for editor/pipeline.
Experience optimizing for specific target platforms (e.g., console, Switch, mobile, VR) and working with clear budgets.
Experience with shaders/materials, UE5 rendering features (e.g., Lumen, VSM), and debugging tools.

Culture & Benefits

Skilled colleagues, a learning culture, and room to grow.
Self-organizing teams with strong ownership.
Opportunity to influence visual quality and performance in real production projects.