Senior Technical Artist: Unreal Rendering & Shaders - Remote

Snail Games USA; Beverly Hills (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

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. The role focuses on rendering, materials, and shaders, bridging art and engineering to improve workflows and deliver high-quality content.

The ideal candidate has strong Unreal Engine expertise (UE5 preferred), experience with real-time rendering, asset integration, and pipeline tooling.

Qualifications

• Professional Technical Artist experience in game development.
• Strong Unreal Engine experience (UE5 preferred).
• Broad knowledge of real-time art pipelines and technical-art production.
• Experience with Unreal materials, shaders, rendering, or related visual systems.
• Ability to investigate problems across artistic and technical concerns.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical art support across game production.
• Develop and optimize Unreal Engine materials, shaders, and rendering workflows.
• Investigate and resolve visual, technical, performance, and asset integration issues.
• Integrate assets meeting visual, technical, and runtime requirements.
• Profile and optimize content for rendering performance and memory usage.
• Establish standards for assets, materials, textures, meshes, and project organization.
• Develop tools/workflows to increase artist efficiency.
• Support artists with technical setup, debugging, and optimization.
• Collaborate with Art, Engineering, Design, Lighting, and other teams.
• Identify risks and bottlenecks before they impact production.

Skills

Unreal Engine

Shader development

Performance profiling

Art-Engineering collaboration

Pipeline optimization

Tools

UE5

HLSL

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. The role focuses on rendering, materials, and shaders, bridging art and engineering to improve workflows and deliver high-quality content.

The ideal candidate has strong Unreal Engine expertise (UE5 preferred), experience with real-time rendering, asset integration, and pipeline tooling.