Unreal Real-Time Technical Artist — Freelance

Magnopus; St Albans; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Magnopus is seeking a Senior Technical Artist with deep Unreal Engine expertise to join our UK team on a freelance, three-month project. You will collaborate with creative and art teams to deliver high-quality real-time content in Unreal Engine, focusing on performance optimisation, materials, content pipelines and technical art workflows.

You will help the team achieve the required visual quality while ensuring content meets demanding real-time performance targets, profiling, troubleshooting

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior 3D Technical Artist in Unreal Engine.
• Deep understanding of real-time material creation, profiling and optimisation.
• Experience with PCG graphs and procedural content workflows in Unreal Engine.
• Experience delivering real-time content for games, immersive experiences or similar projects.

Responsibilities

• Help develop and optimise real-time environments and assets, from initial content through to polished, performant scenes.
• Work directly within Unreal Engine to provide technical support and guidance to the art team, helping troubleshoot and resolve content and performance challenges.
• Profile and optimise 3D content, materials and environments to meet required real-time performance metrics.
• Create, profile and optimise materials in Unreal Engine, balancing visual quality with real-time performance requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve and optimise existing art and content pipelines, helping the wider team work more efficiently and consistently.
• Build and work with Unreal's PCG graphs to support efficient content creation and procedural environment workflows.

Skills

Senior 3D Technical Artist

Unreal Engine expert

Performance optimisation

Content pipelines

Technical art workflows

Strong communication

Problem solving

Tools

Unreal Engine

PCG graphs

Maya

3ds Max

Blender

Substance Painter

Substance Designer

Job description

Magnopus is seeking a Senior Technical Artist with deep Unreal Engine expertise to join our UK team on a freelance, three-month project. You will collaborate with creative and art teams to deliver high-quality real-time content in Unreal Engine, focusing on performance optimisation, materials, content pipelines and technical art workflows.

You will help the team achieve the required visual quality while ensuring content meets demanding real-time performance targets, profiling, troubleshooting