Senior Tech Artist (UE5) — Remote Pipelines Lead

Snail Games USA; Beverly Hills (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life/LTD

401k with company match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Snail Games USA is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to join our Art Center and provide hands-on technical art support across multiple Unreal Engine projects. This production-focused role sits at the intersection of art and engineering to solve technical challenges, improve workflows, optimize game content, and help teams deliver high-quality visuals efficiently.

You’ll collaborate with artists, engineers, designers, and other disciplines to balance visual quality with performance, develop

Qualifications

• Professional Technical Artist experience in game development.
• Strong hands-on Unreal Engine experience, preferably UE5.
• Strong understanding of real-time game art pipelines and technical-art production.
• Rendering, materials, or shaders
• Tools and pipeline development
• Environment or world-building pipelines
• Character or animation pipelines
• VFX or lighting workflows
• Procedural content creation
• Performance optimization
• Asset integration and production workflows
• Experience profiling, troubleshooting, and optimizing real-time game content.
• Strong understanding of game asset pipelines including meshes, textures, materials, LODs, collision, and asset organization.
• Experience integrating and debugging production assets in-engine.
• Ability to solve problems that span both artistic and technical concerns.
• Ability to independently investigate unfamiliar problems and develop practical solutions.
• Strong communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
• Ability to balance visual quality, production efficiency, technical constraints, and runtime performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical art support across multiple Unreal Engine projects and production teams.
• Partner with Art and Engineering to develop technical solutions that balance visual quality, performance, and production efficiency.
• Investigate and resolve technical, visual, performance, workflow, and asset-integration issues.
• Develop, maintain, and improve tools, pipelines, systems, and workflows for artists.
• Support the integration and implementation of environments, characters, materials, textures, VFX, animation, lighting, and other game content as needed.
• Profile and optimize game content for rendering performance, memory usage, scalability, and platform requirements.
• Develop or optimize materials, shaders, and rendering workflows where applicable.
• Establish and maintain practical technical standards for assets, materials, textures, meshes, LODs, collision, naming, and project organization.
• Build reusable tools and automation that reduce repetitive work and improve artist efficiency.
• Support procedural or data-driven workflows where appropriate.
• Work directly with artists to troubleshoot technical issues and improve content pipelines.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Animation, VFX, Lighting, and other disciplines to solve cross-functional production challenges.
• Identify technical risks, workflow inefficiencies, and production bottlenecks before they become larger problems.
• Review assets and implementation for technical quality, consistency, scalability, and runtime performance.
• Create documentation, examples, templates, and reusable best practices for distributed development teams.
• Adapt to different technical-art challenges as project priorities and production requirements evolve.
• Take ownership of technical-art problems from investigation and prototyping through implementation, testing, and validation.

Skills

Unreal Engine

UE5

Tech Art

Rendering

Shaders

Tools & pipelines

Optimization

Tools

Houdini

Maya

Blender

Substance

Unreal Blueprint

Python scripting

Job description

Snail Games USA is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to join our Art Center and provide hands-on technical art support across multiple Unreal Engine projects. This production-focused role sits at the intersection of art and engineering to solve technical challenges, improve workflows, optimize game content, and help teams deliver high-quality visuals efficiently.

You’ll collaborate with artists, engineers, designers, and other disciplines to balance visual quality with performance, develop