Senior Unreal Technical Artist

1010 Games; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic game development studio in Warrington is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to bridge art and engineering. You will optimize and create tools using Unreal Engine, ensuring efficiency and scalability for visually stunning projects. This role involves mentoring and developing innovative workflows in a supportive hybrid environment with many benefits including 33 days of holiday and a health package.

Benefits

Hybrid/flexible working environment

Zero crunch time

33 days holiday

Health and Wellbeing package

Enhanced pension scheme

Company-wide bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Professional experience as a Technical Artist using Unreal Engine.
• Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 5 features.
• Experience in console development and scaling.

Responsibilities

• Implement technical solutions leveraging Unreal tools.
• Build tools & pipelines for immersive worlds.
• Mentor artists on technical understanding.

Skills

Unreal Engine expertise

PCG

Niagara

Lumen

Materials

Maya scripting

Photoshop scripting

Job description

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About Us

10:10 Games is an independent development studio based in the heart of Warrington, UK. 10:10 Games saw its first release in 2024 with Funko Fusion and is now gearing up for future growth with new and exciting IPs.

At 10:10 Games, we have anchored a people first culture into our studio where our team are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are building development pathways that allow us to help everyone reach the next stage of their career with our internal promotion opportunities. Having regular progression catch ups with your manager lets us always have your learning and development aspirations as a prime focus.

We also value transparency, collaboration and genuinely care about everyone's feedback within our studio. We therefore have fortnightly company-wide stand ups and regular check in meetings with each team to ensure we are maintaining this promise.

We have a passionate Outreach programme that we love everyone to get involved with! We have already partnered with Women in Games, Grads in Games, Into Games and more. We are an inclusive studio that believe strongly in opening the doors into the industry, so we provide opportunities within local universities, colleges and schools through our work experience, internships and apprenticeships.

We are growing our team rapidly over the next few months, so this is an amazing opportunity to come and join our people-first culture and be part of our exciting expansion!

As an equal opportunity employer at 10:10 Games we treat all job applications equally, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or any other equality characteristic.

About The Role

10:10 Games is looking for a Senior Technical Artist with deep Unreal Engine knowledge and experience. In this role you will bridge the gap between art and engineering, helping to create efficient pipelines and leverage procedural systems to create visually stunning yet optimized and scalable content for our upcoming projects.

Your work will empower artists and designers with the tools they need to build large-scale, dynamic and performant

environments.

What You'll Do

• Working along-side the Art & Technical Directors you will be responsible for implementing technical solutions leveraging PCG, Niagara, Lumen, Materials and other Unreal tools.

• Build tools & pipelines to streamline to creation of immersive worlds.

• Profile and optimize art assets and systems helping to ensure performance targets across a range of platforms.
• Creating tools/scripts for Maya/Photoshop side to help create efficient workflows

• Mentor and guide artists and other disciplines, helping to improve technical understanding and expertise across the studio.
• Writing documentation for tools/workflows/good practices

What We're Looking For

• Professional experience working as a Technical Artist using Unreal Engine.
• Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 5 features including:

- PCG

- Niagara

- Lumen

- Nanite

- Materials

- HLODs

• Hands-on experience with engine and platform profiling tools.
• Experience with console development and scaling.
• Experience of mel/python for scripting in Maya
• Experience of Photoshop scripting actions

Benefits & Perks

• Hybrid/flexible working environment (4 days in-office, 1 day remote)
• Zero crunch time
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Health and Wellbeing package (Private health insurance, EAP, long-term illness cover)
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Company-wide bonus scheme