Remote Lead Technical Artist, Real-Time Games

Jobgether; France; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly environment

Annual team retreats

Competitive compensation

Flexible contract options

Professional development

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Lead Technical Artist (Real-Time Games | Art & Engineering) to join a remote-friendly team based in France. You will bridge art and engineering, lead technical art initiatives, and drive scalable workflows that empower creative teams to deliver high- quality visuals across real-time platforms.

You will guide shaders, tools, and production pipelines, optimize performance, and mentor a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with artists, engineers, and production leaders in

Qualifications

• Seven+ years in technical art or related game development discipline.
• Experience as Lead Technical Artist or Senior Technical Artist with leadership responsibilities.
• Experience contributing to commercially released games.
• Strong knowledge of real-time rendering, shaders, materials, lighting, and graphics optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical artists across rendering, shaders, tools, optimization, and pipelines while mentoring the team.
• Collaborate with art directors, engineers, and production teams to translate creative requirements into technical solutions.
• Develop real-time materials, shaders, and rendering workflows; identify and fix rendering bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Design and build artist-friendly tools, automation, and procedural workflows to improve production efficiency.
• Improve asset creation, import, setup, and in-engine implementation processes; ensure reliability at scale.
• Prototype and implement new technical approaches and document knowledge for the team.
• Maintain clear technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing across projects.
• Coordinate across distributed teams and external partners to align art and engineering efforts.

Skills

Real-time rendering

Shader development

Tools development

Pipeline development

Technical leadership

English fluency

Tools

Unity3D

Unreal Engine

Python

C#

HLSL

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Lead Technical Artist (Real-Time Games | Art & Engineering) to join a remote-friendly team based in France. You will bridge art and engineering, lead technical art initiatives, and drive scalable workflows that empower creative teams to deliver high- quality visuals across real-time platforms.

You will guide shaders, tools, and production pipelines, optimize performance, and mentor a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with artists, engineers, and production leaders in