Senior Technical Artist (Unreal Engine)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Artist (Unreal Engine): Developing reusable material implementations and shader systems for a AAA game with an accent on visual quality and real-time performance. Focus on building scalable material solutions, profiling rendering performance, and defining technical art pipelines.

Location: Hybrid (Montreal, QC, Canada) - requires 3 days a week onsite

Company

hirify.global is a global entertainment company and game studio creating iconic experiences like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons.

What you will do

• Develop reusable, scalable material implementations for environment, character art, and VFX.
• Collaborate with Rendering Engineers to align material workflows with engine capabilities.
• Profile, debug, and optimize materials and shaders to meet performance and memory budgets.
• Define and document best practices for material authoring, shader usage, and technical art workflows.
• Support artists by troubleshooting shader, material, and rendering issues across tools and pipelines.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience as a Technical Artist focused on shaders, materials, or rendering pipelines.
• Deep hands-on experience with Unreal Engine material editor and shader graph workflows.
• Strong understanding of real-time rendering, lighting models, and PBR workflows.
• Experience working with DCC tools such as Maya, Substance Painter/Designer, or Houdini.
• Ability to translate artistic intent into performant technical solutions.
• Must be based in or able to work from the Montreal, QC studio (hybrid, 3 days onsite).

Nice to have

• Experience with custom HLSL or shader code within Unreal Engine.
• Familiarity with advanced features like virtual textures, material layers, or runtime parameter systems.
• Experience supporting character, environment, or VFX pipelines from a technical perspective.
• Background contributing to early pipeline definition or tool development during pre-production.