Technical Artist (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Technical Artist (Gamedev): Building visually rich, performant materials for characters and character accessories with an accent on Unreal Engine and industry-standard texturing tools. Focus on creating scalable solutions that support Fortnite’s visual style across many platforms.

Location: Onsite in Cary, United States

Company

hirify.global is known for making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content.

What you will do

• Create high-quality, game-ready materials for characters and other cosmetics.
• Build materials that leverage procedural textures and custom material logic to achieve distinctive visual effects.
• Generate textures and bake data using tools such as Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and Houdini.
• Develop reusable material frameworks and workflows that enable artists to efficiently create unique assets.
• Collaborate with character artists, Tech Artists, and engineers to integrate materials with geometry, effects, and Blueprints.
• Optimize materials and textures to meet performance, memory, and scalability targets across multiple platforms.

Requirements

• A strong reel or portfolio demonstrating game materials, ideally with character or cosmetic-focused examples.
• Advanced understanding of PBR workflows, real-time rendering constraints, and material authoring best practices.
• Proven experience creating complex materials using procedural textures and custom material behaviors.
• Hands-on experience with Substance Designer and Substance Painter for texture generation and asset authoring.
• Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art and material pipeline.
• A solid understanding of modeling and texturing fundamentals within a real-time art pipeline, strong collaboration skills, and a desire to own features and initiatives from inception through ship.

Nice to have

• Tools, scripting, or pipeline development experience for Unreal Engine, Substance Designer, and/or Substance Painter.
• Experience in setting up or working with modern character art pipelines, building custom tools, templates, or automation to improve material and texture workflows.
• Familiarity with Blueprints, Python, or similar scripting languages and experience in secondary areas such as modeling, lighting, or VFX.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match.
• A robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
• Unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.