Technical Artist - Onsite Colombia: Shaders & Pipelines

Blind Squirrel Games; Colombia; On-site; COP 60,000,000 - 120,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Blind Squirrel Games is seeking a Technical Artist for an on-site role in Manizales, Colombia. The position focuses on bridging artistic vision with technical execution across ports, co-development, and full game development, with a collaborative team environment.

You will collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to create shaders, materials, tools, and pipelines, while optimizing performance and workflow efficiency. A strong portfolio and experience with game engines are essential.

Qualifications

• A portfolio demonstrating the ability to design and implement technical art assets, tools, and solutions, with the depth and complexity of work reflecting your experience.
• Experience in game development specializing in technical art; three years minimum, five+ years for senior roles.
• Experience integrating and optimizing art assets within a game engine.
• Proficiency in shader development using HLSL and node-based material systems.
• Understanding of art pipelines, asset dependencies, rendering concepts, and performance constraints.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues and collaborate with artists and engineers.
• Strong communication, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Greater ownership of complex technical art systems and ability to guide pipelines for senior roles.

Responsibilities

• Create and modify shaders using HLSL and develop custom materials through node-based systems.
• Integrate art assets and effects into game engines, troubleshoot integration issues, and optimize performance.
• Develop destructible assets and simulations for elements such as cloth and cables.
• Implement HDR workflows, color grading, lighting setups, and post-processing effects.
• Apply real-time rendering techniques, including ray tracing where appropriate, to support lighting and reflection goals.
• Develop scripts and tools that automate repetitive tasks and improve content creation workflows.
• Use procedural generation techniques to support large-scale art production.
• Support art content development for VR and AR platforms when required by the project.
• Organize and maintain art assets within established asset management and version control systems.
• Analyze performance metrics, profile GPU and CPU usage, and help optimize rendering and content pipelines.
• Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to resolve technical challenges.
• Work with production to establish realistic schedules and communicate progress, dependencies, and risks.
• Document technical art pipelines, workflows, tools, and best practices for reference and training.
• Contribute to pipeline improvements, share technical knowledge, and mentor colleagues as appropriate to your experience.
• Perform other relevant duties and responsibilities that support company, department, and project objectives.

Skills

Shader development

HLSL

Node-based materials

Rendering concepts

Troubleshooting

Tool development

Procedural content

Project collaboration

Tools

Maya

Photoshop

Substance Designer

Substance Painter

ZBrush

Unreal Engine

Unity

Jira

Job description

Blind Squirrel Games is seeking a Technical Artist for an on-site role in Manizales, Colombia. The position focuses on bridging artistic vision with technical execution across ports, co-development, and full game development, with a collaborative team environment.

You will collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to create shaders, materials, tools, and pipelines, while optimizing performance and workflow efficiency. A strong portfolio and experience with game engines are essential.