Lead Technical Artist (Unreal Engine 5)

LEAD TECHNICAL ARTIST (CD PROJEKT RED)

🕹 Project Hadar
🧠 Lead
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
👔 Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱

🦄 Description
CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Lead Technical Artist to join the team working on Project Hadar, the studio’s first original IP and video game.
The role focuses on defining and shaping the technical vision for the art pipeline, developing advanced tools, and collaborating with engineers and artists to achieve high visual fidelity and strong performance in Unreal Engine 5.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Prototype, research, and integrate new features in Unreal Engine 5
• Lead, mentor, and guide technical artists
• Develop tools and features that support artistic goals
• Support talent acquisition, performance evaluation, professional development, and team engagement
• Ensure high-quality asset integration while maintaining performance and memory efficiency
• Define best practices for asset pipelines and technical art
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Collaborate with art directors, engineers, and designers
• Identify and resolve production pipeline bottlenecks

📚 Required Skills
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a leadership role in a creative environment
• Minimum 6 years of experience in a technical art role
• Strong leadership experience with mentoring technical artists
• Excellent knowledge of Unreal Engine 5
• Excellent shader development skills
• Strong understanding of DCC workflows
• Experience creating tools and automation with Python or C++
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to take ownership, set goals, share knowledge, and drive initiatives independently
• Strong cross-discipline communication skills
• Fluent English

👍 Nice to Have
• Experience with procedural content creation using Houdini, Unreal PCG, Geometry Script, or Blender Geometry Nodes
• Experience with real-time scalable VFX using Niagara or EmberGen
• Knowledge of animation pipelines
• Experience with scripting for Maya, MotionBuilder, Unreal Animation Blueprints, or Sequencer

🍪 What we offer
• Full-time position
• Hybrid working mode
• Work from the Warsaw studio
• Opportunity to work on CD PROJEKT RED’s first original IP
• Leadership role with ownership of technical art direction
• Collaboration with experienced artists, engineers, and designers
• Work on a story-driven RPG with high visual and technical ambitions

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