Senior Technical Artist: Unreal Engine 5 (Remote)

Snailgamesusa; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work‑life balance

Paid holidays

Medical, dental, vision

401k with match

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 is a broad, production-focused role that sits at the intersection of art and engineering, collaborating with artists, engineers, designers, and other disciplines to solve technical challenges and improve workflows.

The ideal candidate has strong Unreal Engine experience, deep hands-on technical-art fundamentals, and the ability to

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.
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more technical-art disciplines, such as rendering, materials, or shaders.
• Experience profiling, troubleshooting, and optimizing real-time game content.
• Strong understanding of game asset pipelines including meshes, textures, materials, LODs, collision, and asset organization.

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

Technical Artist

Real-time pipelines

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Problem solving

Scripting

Python (scripting)

Tools

Maya

Blender

Houdini

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 is a broad, production-focused role that sits at the intersection of art and engineering, collaborating with artists, engineers, designers, and other disciplines to solve technical challenges and improve workflows.

The ideal candidate has strong Unreal Engine experience, deep hands-on technical-art fundamentals, and the ability to