Technical Artist – Environment

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Execute strategies for resource optimization by pinpointing performance bottlenecks and implementing solutions for 3D assets, materials, foliage, and environmental systems.

• Assist in refining housing/player-structure setup workflows to facilitate the development of modular, customizable, and high-performance player spaces.

• Champion and enhance material creation and maintenance processes, ensuring that materials are efficient, scalable, and user-friendly for artists.

• Design and sustain vegetation pipelines, incorporating SpeedTree integration, vegetation placement, and optimization.

• Utilize Houdini for procedural content generation.

• Contribute to the design and assistance of procedural world-map generation, including layout systems, rule sets, and integration with Unreal's world-building tools.

• Offer hands-on technical support to artists by addressing integration, workflow, and performance challenges.

• Mentor and train artists on tools, materials, and best practices, promoting technical excellence and long-term scalability.

• Engage in planning and reviews, representing technical considerations and contributing to the overall world-building strategy of the project.

⛳️ Requirements

• You have successfully shipped at least one game or product as an environment technical artist using Unreal Engine.

• You possess experience in managing intricate environment systems, such as material graphs, foliage, procedural tools, or world-creation workflows.

• You are skilled in generating procedural content with Houdini or other PCG tools.

• You are capable of diagnosing and resolving performance and scalability challenges in large-scale environments.

• You are proactive, organized, and adept at navigating production unpredictability.

• You take pleasure in assisting other artists, removing obstacles for teams, and enhancing workflows through well-crafted tools.

• You are driven by curiosity and continuously seek knowledge, especially in procedural content creation and technical art workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work is permitted in Canada (eligible province: Québec).