Remote Lead Technical Artist — Real-Time Graphics

Jobgether; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Creative ownership

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Remote flexibility

Competitive compensation

Flexible contracts

Professional development

Studio culture

Job summary

Jobgether is assisting with a remote Lead Technical Artist role in Ireland, directing technical art across rendering, tools, and pipelines. You will mentor artists, optimize performance, and ensure production readiness for high-visual quality games.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in technical art, leadership experience, and strong Unity/Unreal proficiency, with excellent English communication and a passion for cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in technical art or closely related game development discipline.
• Experience as Lead Technical Artist or Senior Technical Artist with leadership responsibilities.
• Experience contributing to commercially released games.
• Strong knowledge of real-time rendering, shaders, materials, lighting, and graphics optimization.
• Professional experience with Unity3D, Unreal Engine, or comparable real-time engines.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, C#, HLSL, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience developing technical art tools, automation systems, and scalable production workflows.
• Understanding of real-time asset pipelines and platform-specific performance constraints.
• Strong debugging, profiling, and technical problem-solving skills.
• Experience mentoring technical artists and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to translate creative requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee technical art development across rendering, shaders, tools, optimization, and production workflows.
• Collaborate with Art Directors, Technical Directors, engineers and production teams to translate creative ambitions into practical technical requirements.
• Develop and improve real-time materials and rendering workflows, identify bottlenecks and maintain visual quality.
• Optimize geometry, materials, textures, lighting, and asset pipelines across target platforms.
• Design and develop artist-friendly tools, automation systems, and validators to improve efficiency.
• Improve asset creation, import, setup, and in-engine implementation processes with engineers.
• Prototype new technical approaches and transition successful ones to production use.
• Maintain clear technical documentation and share knowledge across projects.
• Coordinate across distributed teams and external partners to align goals.
• Support estimation, prioritization, and planning for technical art initiatives.

Skills

Real-time rendering

Shaders

Leadership

Problem solving

English fluency

Scripting

Tool development

Performance optimization

Mentoring

Tools

Unity

Unreal Engine

Python

C#

HLSL

Job description

Jobgether is assisting with a remote Lead Technical Artist role in Ireland, directing technical art across rendering, tools, and pipelines. You will mentor artists, optimize performance, and ensure production readiness for high-visual quality games.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in technical art, leadership experience, and strong Unity/Unreal proficiency, with excellent English communication and a passion for cross-disciplinary collaboration.