Senior Shader Tech Artist — Unreal Engine Mastery + Equity

confidential; United States; On-site; USD 113,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid holidays

Paid vacation time

Sick days

Parental leave

Wellbeing programs

Commuter benefits

Job summary

TAPP Film in California is seeking a Senior Shader Technical Artist to develop and maintain a robust shader pipeline across disciplines, using Unreal Engine, HLSL/GLSL, and node-based editors to deliver high-quality visuals.

You will drive shader standards, optimize for real-time performance, collaborate with art, engineering, and design, and document reusable best practices for distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Technical Art or shipping a title.
• Proficiency with stylized and PBR shaders using node-based editors.
• Experience with tiled layered material systems, shader networks, procedural texturing, and HLSL.
• Strong cross-discipline communication and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with UE5, Substance Designer/Painter, Photoshop, modeling, baking and texturing.

Responsibilities

• Craft and optimize shaders and master materials in Unreal Engine.
• Collaborate to uphold artistic and technical shader standards.
• Develop innovative shader techniques and shading validation tools.
• Identify bottlenecks, profile performance, and optimize shaders.
• Create documentation and reusable best practices for distributed teams.
• Work with Art, Engineering, Design, Lighting to solve cross-discipline problems.
• Evaluate workflows and flag potential production risks.

Skills

Unreal Engine

Shader Graphs

HLSL/GLSL/CG

Material pipelines

Performance profiling

Documentation

UE5

Substance Designer

Substance Painter

Photoshop

Modeling

Baking

Tools

Unreal Engine

HLSL

GLSL

CG

UE5

Substance Designer

Substance Painter

Photoshop

Job description

TAPP Film in California is seeking a Senior Shader Technical Artist to develop and maintain a robust shader pipeline across disciplines, using Unreal Engine, HLSL/GLSL, and node-based editors to deliver high-quality visuals.

You will drive shader standards, optimize for real-time performance, collaborate with art, engineering, and design, and document reusable best practices for distributed teams.