Lead Technical Artist - Pipelines & Tools Specialist

Sony Playstation; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday and 8 bank holidays

Flexitime working

Free car parking facilities

Onsite canteen

Cycle garage and showers

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment, Media Molecule, Guildford, UK, is seeking a Principal Technical Artist for a short-term contingent engagement. You will elevate art workflows, drive fidelity and performance, and mentor teams across the project.

Hybrid/remote UK work is available with one day onsite in Guildford. The role emphasizes collaboration, tooling, and best-practice adoption to deliver high-quality creative content on a demanding project.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar level in technical art role.
• Expertise in modern art pipelines, particularly with respect to materials, lighting, grading and/or environmental art.
• Extensive knowledge of 3D digital content creation tools, such as Blender or Substance.
• Competence with performance analysis tools, such as heatmaps and/or frame-time graphs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Desirable: Experience with C++ and/or Python to build tools for creative disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Partner with art and technology teams to identify fidelity and performance issues and suggest/implement suitable solutions.
• Refine, document and champion best practices for artistic content creation.
• Identify fidelity and performance issues and suggest/implement suitable solutions.
• Support and educate artists to maximise efficient use of tools and workflows.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define suitable benchmarks and settings for target configurations / platforms.

Skills

Technical art experience

Art pipelines

Materials, lighting, grading

3D content creation tools

Performance analysis tools

Communication skills

Collaborative problem solving

C++/Python scripting

Tools

Blender

Substance

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment, Media Molecule, Guildford, UK, is seeking a Principal Technical Artist for a short-term contingent engagement. You will elevate art workflows, drive fidelity and performance, and mentor teams across the project.

Hybrid/remote UK work is available with one day onsite in Guildford. The role emphasizes collaboration, tooling, and best-practice adoption to deliver high-quality creative content on a demanding project.