Technical Artist (AAA)

Ascendion; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a skilled Technical Artist to enhance the visual quality and performance of their gaming projects. In this role, you will collaborate with various teams to identify workflow challenges and develop effective solutions, ensuring that gameplay remains visually stunning while maintaining optimal performance. Your expertise in Unreal Engine, shader optimization, and programming will be crucial as you work to troubleshoot issues and enhance the gaming experience. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will directly impact the quality of exciting new projects in the gaming industry.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of video game production and ability to problem-solve technical issues.
• Experience with shader creation and optimization is essential.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to improve workflow and address performance issues.
• Educate and create technical documentation for external vendors.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication Skills

Debugging

Tools

Unreal Engine 4

Python

C#

C++

Job description

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TECHNICAL ARTIST

This team is seeking an experienced and motivated Technical Artist, with a proven track record in collaborating with peers to develop and maintain high quality tools, pipelines, systems and runtime performance. In this position you are responsible for working with the Technical Art team to ensure real-time gameplay maintains high visual quality yet remains performant and functional. It is important that you have good communication skills and work collaboratively with peers.

Responsibilities:

1. Proactively work with other disciplines to identify pain points in workflow and help determine solutions for them
2. Run-time performance – work with art teams to reduce content complexity, lighting cost, draw calls, etc. where appropriate, while maintaining visual quality
3. Use pix to identify content performance concerns and communicate over-budget assets out to the respective teams
4. Work with Level Art team to help identify and troubleshoot any performance issues in Environments
5. Work with Technical Animation team to help identify and troubleshoot any animation related issues
6. Work with Character art team to help identify and troubleshoot character specific problems (Morph targets, materials/shaders, etc.)
7. Educating, creating technical documentation, and communicating with external vendors
8. Fix bugs in the game as they are reported

Qualifications:

1. Strong knowledge of production pertaining to video games
2. The ability to problem-solve, specifically test and debug technical issues
3. Strong knowledge of Unreal 4 or equivalent engine
4. Strong knowledge of shader creation and optimization
5. Scripting/programming in python, C# and C++

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Art/Creative

Industries

Computer Games