Senior Character Texture Artist (Unreal Engine)

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.

Company

hirify.global is an artist-led independent studio founded by Anthony and Joe Russo, producing film, television, and immersive storytelling projects.

What you will do

• Build, own, and deliver high-fidelity textures and materials for hero and principal characters across organic and hard-surface elements.
• Develop character materials that hold up under close-up cinematics, cinematic lighting, and real-time gameplay.
• Define shader requirements, material layering, masking, customization systems, and real-time optimization with technical art.
• Set studio standards, tools, and best practices for character texturing, UV strategy, and material authoring.
• Coordinate with modelers, riggers, cinematics, technical art, and art direction to maintain visual consistency.
• Solve complex surfacing problems involving damage and wear states, dynamic masking, rigging, and simulation.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of professional experience as a Texture Artist, Character Artist, or Surfacing Artist focused on characters in games or high-end real-time production.
• Strong organic and hard-surface character texturing skills, including skin, cloth, mechanical, armored, and synthetic surfaces.
• Advanced knowledge of UV strategy, texel density management, material systems, layered shaders, and customization-driven texture setups.
• Experience working across cinematic and technical art and shaping pipeline or workflow decisions.
• Proficiency with Substance Painter, Substance Designer, or equivalent tools, as well as Unreal Engine pipelines.
• A portfolio or reel demonstrating character texturing work is required.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment at an independent, artist-led studio.
• Work across gameplay, cinematics, and immersive interconnected worlds.
• Participation in projects spanning film, television, and real-time production.
• Fair and unbiased recruitment procedures with equal opportunity for applicants.