Senior Material Artist - Hard Surface

Location: Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom; hybrid working environment

Company

hirify.global is a new AAA game studio developing a best-in-class game based on a new intellectual property.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain complex Unreal Engine master material shaders for vehicles and other hard-surface assets.
• Create photorealistic PBR textures and material instances for metals, paints, plastics, composites, rubber, glass, and interior finishes.
• Collaborate with Vehicle Artists, Art Leadership, Technical Artists, and Scanning Artists to develop realistic material workflows.
• Establish best practices, document workflows, and contribute to new tools and techniques for hard-surface material creation.
• Optimize shader and material content with Technical Artists and Render Engineers while meeting performance targets.
• Research real-world vehicles, manufacturing processes, and material properties to guide advanced material implementation.

Requirements

• Extensive experience developing, implementing, optimizing, and maintaining complex photorealistic PBR materials and shaders in Unreal Engine’s node-based material editor.
• Strong experience creating materials and textures for hard-surface assets, with a detailed understanding of real-world surface behavior.
• Excellent ability to analyze reference, construction, wear, and surface detail to recreate accurate materials.
• Proficiency with Substance Painter, Substance Designer, 3ds Max, Maya, Blender, RealityCapture, or equivalent tools.
• Deep understanding of real-time rendering, lighting, PBR workflows, and industry standards.
• Strong organizational and collaboration skills across vehicle art and other disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience creating materials for vehicles, automotive visualization, or similarly complex hard-surface assets.
• Knowledge of photogrammetry, photography, and physically accurate material capture techniques.
• Interest in vehicles, automotive design, or motorsport.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative hybrid working environment.
• 25 days of annual leave plus one additional day for a birthday.
• Studio shutdown between Christmas and New Year.
• Discretionary bonus scheme and private pension scheme.
• Private healthcare, dental care, optical treatments, and health and well-being benefits.
• Mental health support.