Unity Game Technical Artist — Tools & Pipeline Lead

Lingokids; España; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Books & training

Remote-friendly

Stock options

Home office allowance

Meal allowance

Flexible compensation

Health insurance

Language lessons

Visa sponsorship

Team events in Spain

Job summary

Lingokids is seeking a Game Technical Artist to own tooling and standards, collaborating with engineering to cut manual work and ensure assets render correctly in playable builds. You’ll define asset standards and Unity integration practices while improving workflows across art, animation, and design teams.

Candidate should have hands-on Unity 2D art/animation experience, shader editor proficiency, and a strong focus on mobile performance.

Qualifications

• Experience integrating 2D art and animation into Unity for shipped games.
• Proficiency with node-based shader editors and custom shaders.
• Strong understanding of Unity render pipelines and mobile performance.
• Ability to automate tasks with editor scripting in C#; Python is a plus.
• Experience coordinating with artists, designers, and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate pipeline and propose practical solutions.
• Build and maintain tools to remove repetitive work.
• Define asset standards and import settings.
• Own Unity asset setup and integration.
• Validate assets in builds and diagnose issues.
• Keep pipeline healthy by tracing bottlenecks.
• Enable reuse across games and IP reskins.
• Evolve workflow with new tools and Spine migration.
• Introduce AI-assisted workflows with guardrails.
• Document and train colleagues.

Skills

Unity

2D animation

Shader editors

C# scripting

Python scripting

Mobile performance

AI tooling

Documentation

Team collaboration

Asset pipelines

Tools

Amplify Shader Editor

Shader Graph

Spine

Adobe Animate

Adobe Illustrator

Git

Job description

Lingokids is seeking a Game Technical Artist to own tooling and standards, collaborating with engineering to cut manual work and ensure assets render correctly in playable builds. You’ll define asset standards and Unity integration practices while improving workflows across art, animation, and design teams.

Candidate should have hands-on Unity 2D art/animation experience, shader editor proficiency, and a strong focus on mobile performance.