Principal Technical Artist — Lead Art Tech & Pipelines

the hive; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday and 8 bank holidays

Flexitime

Free car parking

Onsite canteen

Cycle garage and showers

Job summary

Media Molecule, based in Guildford, is seeking a Principal Technical Artist for a short-term engagement via Yoh Services. You will drive quality and best practices across art pipelines, collaborating with art and tech teams to resolve fidelity and performance issues.

You will mentor artists, refine workflows, and contribute to tooling and pipelines while supporting multiple platforms. Hybrid/remote UK work with a preference for onsite one day per week.

Qualifications

• Experience at a similar level in a technical art role.
• Expertise in modern art pipelines including materials, lighting, grading or environmental art.
• Extensive knowledge of 3D content tools (Blender, Substance).
• Experience with performance analysis tools (e.g., heatmaps, frame-time graphs).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive, pragmatic and collaborative problem solver.

Responsibilities

• Partner with art/tech teams to identify fidelity and performance issues and implement solutions.
• Refine, document and champion best practices for artistic content creation.
• Identify fidelity and performance issues and implement solutions.
• Support and educate artists to maximize tool/workflow efficiency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define benchmarks and target configurations.

Skills

Technical art

Art pipelines

Blender

Substance

Performance analysis

Communication skills

C++

Python

Tools

Blender

Substance

Job description

Media Molecule, based in Guildford, is seeking a Principal Technical Artist for a short-term engagement via Yoh Services. You will drive quality and best practices across art pipelines, collaborating with art and tech teams to resolve fidelity and performance issues.

You will mentor artists, refine workflows, and contribute to tooling and pipelines while supporting multiple platforms. Hybrid/remote UK work with a preference for onsite one day per week.