Unreal Engine Level Artist: Environment & Optimization

Prismatic Studios; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 114,616,000 - 171,924,000; Full time

Job summary

Prismatic Studios is seeking a Technical Level Artist to work across Unreal Engine projects, handling environment asset creation and level art from modelling to lighting and optimisation. The role focuses on real-time performance and cross-platform delivery for PC and mobile, with a strong preference for on-site work in Auckland.

The candidate should have at least 2+ years of professional Unreal Engine experience, detailed knowledge of environment composition, and the ability to optimise

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience as a Level Artist, Environment Artist, Technical Artist, or similar role.
• Strong professional experience using Unreal Engine in game development.
• Strong experience creating and polishing game environments in Unreal Engine.
• Strong understanding of level art, environment composition, set dressing and visual storytelling.
• Proven ability to take environments from blockout through to final-quality level art.
• Strong understanding of Unreal Engine performance and optimisation.
• Experience profiling and optimising GPU, CPU, memory and rendering performance.
• Strong understanding of draw calls, shader complexity, overdraw, visibility, culling and level streaming.
• Experience with World Partition and streaming workflows.
• Experience with material and shader optimisation.
• Understanding of lighting and shadow performance.
• Understanding of PC versus mobile performance limitations and scalability requirements.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical art and performance issues within Unreal Engine.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate within multidisciplinary teams.
• Self-driven, organised and capable of independently managing workload.

Responsibilities

• Build and polish high-quality game environments in Unreal Engine from blockout through to final-quality level art.
• Level asset placement, environment composition, set dressing and visual polish.
• Use Unreal Engine profiling and debugging tools to identify and resolve environment performance bottlenecks.
• Profile and troubleshoot GPU, CPU, memory and rendering performance issues, optimising levels and environment content for PC and mobile hardware.
• Optimise draw calls, shader complexity, overdraw, visibility, culling, level streaming and runtime asset usage.
• Implement and optimise World Partition and other level streaming workflows.
• Optimise Static Meshes, LODs, collision, materials, textures and other environment assets.
• Identify and resolve technical art issues affecting level quality or performance.
• Contribute to art pipelines, technical standards and best practices.

Skills

Unreal Engine

Environment art

Level art

Performance optimisation

Collaboration

Tools

Unreal Engine

Job description

Prismatic Studios is seeking a Technical Level Artist to work across Unreal Engine projects, handling environment asset creation and level art from modelling to lighting and optimisation. The role focuses on real-time performance and cross-platform delivery for PC and mobile, with a strong preference for on-site work in Auckland.

The candidate should have at least 2+ years of professional Unreal Engine experience, detailed knowledge of environment composition, and the ability to optimise