Technical Artist - Unreal Engine & Pipeline Expert

Studio Wildcard; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

PTO & Holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Studio Wildcard, the studio behind ARK: Survival Evolved, is expanding its team for ARK Survival Ascended. We seek a technical artist to solve cross-disciplinary art-tech challenges, approve assets, and optimize assets across gameplay and environments.

You will collaborate with a globally distributed team, contribute to pipeline improvements, and work with Unreal Engine, shaders, and various tooling to push quality and performance forward.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of game development as a technical artist with at least 1 shipped title.
• Capable of mastering new pipeline and tech tools.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team that is distributed globally.

Responsibilities

• Solve technical art problems across disciplines.
• Approve assets and perform quality checks.
• Optimize gameplay and environment assets.
• Create documentation and provide pipeline improvements.
• Integrate gameplay-related assets including LODs, destruction meshes, custom metadata, and NVIDIA GameWorks.

Skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Technical art knowledge

Shipped title experience

Tools

Unreal Engine

Shader languages GLSL/HLSL/CG

Tool scripting MEL PyMel MaxScript Python Fabric Engine

NVIDIA GameWorks

LOD creation with Simplygon

Job description

Studio Wildcard, the studio behind ARK: Survival Evolved, is expanding its team for ARK Survival Ascended. We seek a technical artist to solve cross-disciplinary art-tech challenges, approve assets, and optimize assets across gameplay and environments.

You will collaborate with a globally distributed team, contribute to pipeline improvements, and work with Unreal Engine, shaders, and various tooling to push quality and performance forward.