Senior Technical Artist (Rendering & Shaders)

Location: Remote within Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming; Los Angeles area preferred.

Salary: $100,000–$130,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops and publishes digital entertainment, with a focus on online gaming and short-form video content.

What you will do

• Provide hands-on technical art support across multiple Unreal Engine projects.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize Unreal materials, shaders, and rendering workflows.
• Investigate visual, technical, performance, and asset integration problems through implementation, testing, and validation.
• Integrate and review meshes, textures, materials, LODs, collision, and other production assets.
• Profile content for rendering performance, memory use, shader complexity, and scalability.
• Build tools, documentation, standards, and reusable workflows that improve artist efficiency and support distributed development teams.

Requirements

• Professional Technical Artist experience in game development.
• Strong Unreal Engine experience, preferably UE5, with expertise in materials, shaders, rendering, or related visual systems.
• Strong knowledge of real-time game art pipelines, asset integration, profiling, optimization, and runtime performance constraints.
• Experience with meshes, textures, materials, LODs, collision, asset organization, and in-engine troubleshooting.
• Ability to independently solve ambiguous problems spanning artistic and technical concerns.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with artists, engineers, designers, animators, and lighting teams.

Nice to have

• Python scripting, pipeline automation, or reusable artist-tool development.
• Unreal Blueprints, HLSL, or custom shader development.
• Procedural tools such as Houdini and DCC pipeline integration with Maya, Blender, Substance, or similar tools.
• Experience with environment, character, vegetation, VFX, lighting, or procedural content pipelines.
• Experience shipping PC or console titles with Unreal Engine or supporting multiple projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on work-life balance.
• Paid company holidays, vacation, and separate sick leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life/LTD insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Role may involve mature, violent, sexual, graphic, or otherwise sensitive game content.