Technical Director (Unreal Engine)

Location: Primarily on-site at the Tokyo office, Japan

Company

hirify.global develops visually distinctive game and media projects with a small, multidisciplinary team.

What you will do

• Develop technical solutions that align creative goals with production requirements and support collaboration between artists, designers, engineers, and producers.
• Lead technical artists and engineers to deliver high-quality results on schedule.
• Create custom shaders, materials, rigs, and graphical techniques for distinctive visual styles.
• Optimize rendering pipelines and maintain visual fidelity across platforms.
• Extend Unreal Engine functionality with C++ and Python, develop tools, and document technical workflows.
• Present technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including external clients, and train team members on new pipelines.

Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of Unreal Engine, including rendering, Blueprints, shaders, animation, and advanced scripting.
• Experience creating unique visual styles for games or media projects and optimizing rendering pipelines across platforms.
• Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing rigging pipelines and integrating robust rigs with Unreal Engine workflows.
• Advanced game-development programming skills in C++, Python, or related languages.
• Experience leading technical teams and delivering high-visibility projects, with strong communication skills.
• Business-level Japanese is required. A bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 10 years of games-industry experience, is required for the Japanese visa.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing graphical techniques that advance realism or artistic expression.
• Experience training team members and documenting technical workflows.
• Pre-existing Japanese language skills or willingness to learn.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee and contract-worker arrangements are available; both include a six-month probationary period.
• Working hours are 10:00–19:00, with core hours from 11:00–16:00.
• Visa sponsorship is available.
• Paid vacation, national holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, summer holidays, and family-related leave are provided.
• Benefits include transportation reimbursement, health and pension insurance, retirement allowance, medical checkups, and performance bonuses for full-time employees.
• Support is available for Japanese lessons, museums, lectures, seminars, certifications, and examination fees.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume or CV, relevant qualification documents, and referrals through the contact form.
• Portfolios are required only for art-related positions and should be provided through a website or data-sharing service.