Senior Technical Artist - Unity Shaders & Pipelines

960 MIDASPLAYER.COM LIMITED; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

King seeks a senior Technical Artist to bridge art and engineering in Unity. You will turn concepts into polished, performant in-engine experiences and mentor teammates.

Working with artists, designers, engineers and production, you will build shaders and materials, optimize pipelines, and enable content creators with practical, production-ready solutions to raise visual quality while maintaining speed.

Qualifications

• Technical art workflows in game development and hands-on Unity development.
• Shaders, rendering workflows, lighting, optimization, and performance-aware content creation.
• Asset pipelines, tooling, scripting, or workflow automation in Unity or DCC tools such as Blender, Maya, or Houdini.
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• A proactive mindset and the confidence to take ownership of ambiguous technical art problems.

Responsibilities

• Turn concepts and visual targets into polished, performant in-engine experiences.
• Build and support shaders, materials, VFX, lighting, and visual systems in Unity.
• Improve pipelines, workflows, tooling, and content integration across disciplines.
• Partner with artists, designers, engineers, and production teams to solve visual and technical challenges.
• Help define best practices for scalable, performance-aware content creation.
• Mentor teammates and support knowledge sharing across technical art workflows.

Skills

Unity

Shaders

Materials

VFX

Lighting

Pipelines

Scripting

DCC Tools

Tools

Blender

Maya

Houdini

Git

Job description

King seeks a senior Technical Artist to bridge art and engineering in Unity. You will turn concepts into polished, performant in-engine experiences and mentor teammates.

Working with artists, designers, engineers and production, you will build shaders and materials, optimize pipelines, and enable content creators with practical, production-ready solutions to raise visual quality while maintaining speed.