Senior Technical Artist: Real-Time Art Pipelines & Tools

Keywords Studios; Runcorn; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days holiday + 3 festive closure

Company Pension Scheme

Flexible Working Hours

Private Medical Insurance - BUPA

Anti-crunch ethos

Free Parking

Company Socials

Breakout Areas

Job summary

d3t, part of Keywords Studios, is seeking a Senior Technical Artist for a 12-month fixed-term contract in the UK (Daresbury or Newcastle) with hybrid working. The role focuses on establishing art pipelines, creating materials and in-house tools, and ensuring performance targets while maintaining visual fidelity.

You will mentor peers and drive technical art development across environments, characters, VFX, and animation.

Qualifications

• Experience with real-time game art pipelines.
• Knowledge of rendering, shading and lighting techniques.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain project art pipelines from inception and throughout the project life-cycle.
• Create materials/shaders and in-house tools.
• Ensure artwork meets memory and frame rate guidelines.
• Collaborate with artists to improve performance while maintaining fidelity.
• Own features when required and manage task prioritisation in Jira.
• Mentor and motivate other Technical Artists.

Skills

Real-time game art

Performance & quality focus

Maya

3DS Max

Python

Communication

Organisation

Leadership in art

Materials & shaders

PBR workflow

Unreal Engine

Unity

Tools

Maya

3DS Max

Python

Unreal Engine

Unity

Job description

d3t, part of Keywords Studios, is seeking a Senior Technical Artist for a 12-month fixed-term contract in the UK (Daresbury or Newcastle) with hybrid working. The role focuses on establishing art pipelines, creating materials and in-house tools, and ensuring performance targets while maintaining visual fidelity.

You will mentor peers and drive technical art development across environments, characters, VFX, and animation.