Lead Technical Artist (Unreal Engine)

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Company

hirify.global is an artist-led independent studio producing film, television, and interactive storytelling projects.

What you will do

• Lead the Technical Artist team through mentorship, code and workflow reviews, and day-to-day guidance.
• Provide generalist technical art support across lighting, character, environment, VFX, and animation disciplines.
• Design and maintain shaders that balance visual fidelity with real-time performance.
• Build and maintain custom DCC plugins, in-engine editor tools, asset validation, and automation pipelines.
• Define technical standards, budgets, and best practices with engineering, art direction, and production.
• Diagnose rigging, shading, lighting, and asset optimization issues while improving the end-to-end technical art pipeline.

Requirements

• Proven generalist experience as a Technical Artist spanning lighting, character, and environment art.
• Strong hands-on shader development experience with HLSL, GLSL, node-based shader graphs, or engine-specific shader languages.
• Experience building custom tools and pipelines for art workflows.
• Deep familiarity with Unreal Engine and DCC tools such as Maya, Blender, Houdini, Substance, and ZBrush.
• Solid understanding of rigging, character setup, lighting workflows, and real-time environment and asset optimization.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States; experience leading or mentoring technical artists is strongly preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Artist-led environment focused on bold, creative approaches to storytelling.
• Cross-functional collaboration across art, engineering, and production.
• Opportunity to contribute to immersive, interconnected interactive worlds.
• Fair and unbiased recruitment procedures with equal opportunity for applicants.