Lead Technical Artist — Real-Time Games (Remote)

Jobgether; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Creative and technical ownership

Technical leadership opportunities

Remote friendly international team

Flexible contract options

Professional development

Studio retreats

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Lead Technical Artist (Real-Time Games) for a partner company, remotely based in Switzerland. You will lead technical art across rendering, shaders, tools, and pipelines, aligning art goals with scalable technical solutions.

You will mentor a multidisciplinary team, optimize performance, and drive production workflows from concept to release in a global, remote-friendly setup.

Qualifications

• Strong real-time graphics expertise and hands-on development skills.
• Leadership experience in technical art roles.
• Experience contributing to commercially released games.
• Fluent English communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical art development across rendering, shaders, tools, and pipelines.
• Collaborate with art directors, engineers, and production teams to translate creative goals into technical requirements.
• Develop real-time materials, shaders, and rendering workflows; troubleshoot performance issues.
• Define performance budgets and validation processes for target platforms.
• Design and develop artist-friendly tools and automation systems.
• Improve asset creation, import, setup, and in-engine implementation processes in collaboration with engineers.
• Prototype new technical approaches and drive successful ones into production.
• Maintain clear technical documentation and facilitate knowledge sharing.

Skills

Technical art leadership

Real-time rendering

Shaders & materials

Unity3D / Unreal Engine

Python / C# / HLSL

Tools development

Pipeline development

Mentoring teams

English communication

Tools

Houdini

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Lead Technical Artist (Real-Time Games) for a partner company, remotely based in Switzerland. You will lead technical art across rendering, shaders, tools, and pipelines, aligning art goals with scalable technical solutions.

You will mentor a multidisciplinary team, optimize performance, and drive production workflows from concept to release in a global, remote-friendly setup.