Senior Tools & Pipeline Technical Artist (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Tools & Pipeline Technical Artist (Gamedev): Laying the pipelines and foundation to support content and development goals with an accent on driving best practices and processes for pipelines and workflow. Focus on adopting, evolving, and developing pipeline solutions that can be shared across the company and support Riot’s exploration of AI-assisted content creation.

Location: Must be based in Los Angeles

Salary: $185,200.00 - $258,000.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Company

Riot focuses on work/life balance and create games and experiences that make it better to be a player.

What you will do

• Partner with artists, technical artists, and engineers to deeply understand content creation workflows across multiple projects
• Evaluate existing tools and pipelines across Riot to identify opportunities for adoption, consolidation, and reuse
• Design, implement, and own new tools and pipeline solutions when existing approaches do not meet creator needs
• Identify and reduce redundant or fragmented pipeline efforts by promoting shared systems and workflows
• Independently drive pipeline research, targeted development efforts, and AI experimentation as needed
• Contribute to defining pipeline standards, best practices, and long-term technical direction for Central Creative

Requirements

• Significant professional experience as a Technical Artist, Tools-focused Technical Artist, or similar role
• Strong hands-on experience with modern DCC tools and game engines
• Proven experience building and maintaining tools or pipelines used in production at scale
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous problem spaces and drive solutions to completion
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical disciplines
• Minimum of 8 years development experience

Nice to have

• Experience experimenting with or deploying AI-assisted content generation in production workflows
• Deep understanding of end-to-end art pipelines across multiple asset types or disciplines
• Experience influencing pipeline standards or best practices beyond a single team
• Strong product sense and pragmatism when balancing creator needs, technical constraints, and maintainability

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance
• Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
• 401k with company match