Senior Technical Artist

This is a genuinely greenfield role. You'll join at a similar time as our new Senior Environment Artist, and together you'll build a proof-of-concept scene from scratch: shaders, materials, lighting systems, atmosphere. The pipelines, the visual language, the rendering approach; you will play an integral part in shaping all of it.

About you

• Strong shader and material craft in Unity URP; node-based is absolutely fine and being able to read shader code matters more than writing HLSL from scratch (a graphics programmer will join us later)

• Real lighting depth: global illumination and rendering pipelines, not just placing lights

• A demonstrable artistic eye, and preferably a portfolio that shows taste, not just technique

• Performance optimisation experience against constrained hardware

• Senior-to-principal-level independence: comfortable with an undefined brief, self-led exploration, and shaping direction rather than primarily receiving it

Desirable:

• A shipped PC or console title

• References and influences from graphic design and illustration

• Familiarity with Blender, Photoshop or similar

What you'll be doing

• Creating shaders and materials in Unity URP (Shader Graph, Amplify, or coded; your choice of approach)

• Building lighting systems from the ground up, owning global illumination, custom atmosphere and fog, baked and real-time approaches

• Establishing the art production pipeline with the Lead Artist and our Lead Programmer

• Optimising for our performance: Steam Deck, scaling up through PC and console

• Experimenting with two-week exploration cycles, twice-weekly check-ins, and a lot of trust in between

• This role is a 12 month fixed-term contract, salaried as a preference, but we are also open to day-rate contractors. 

• For Fixed term hires, most benefits are offered and matched to our permanent team: BUPA private medical, pension, profit share, flexible working, enhanced parental leave, 25 days holiday plus paid sick leave.

• We can hire Hybrid or Remote, with hours that overlap the team's.

• Time together at our London (Oval) studio is encouraged where possible, especially early on, but we're not limiting this search by geography. Our preference is to have some weekly in-studio time, but we will consider strong applicants who are based anywhere in the UK or Europe, with preparedness for travel to the studio regularly.