Remote Lead Technical Artist Job in Cambridge, UK Jagex

Who you are

• Proven experience as a lead technical artist on games developed in Unreal Engine or similar game engines
• A keen eye for visual focus, quality and an understanding of how to follow and uphold key art direction and vision
• Teaching and mentoring proficiency in scripting languages such as Mel, PyMel, PyQT, Python, C# and LUA
• Experience with or exposure to high level shader languages such as glsl, hlsl and cgfx with the ability to optimize surfacing
• Demonstrable experience with performance tracking in games
• Expert understanding and significant experience of different platform requirements
• Excellent knowledge in modern content creation applications (Maya, Substance, Z-brush, Houdini, Photoshop, etc)
• Deep experience of end-to-end modern development pipelines in 3D asset creation, VFX and animation
• Ability to script and plan code for efficient re-use and extensibility adhering to coding standards. Proven experience of optimization techniques and robust memory budget management
• Ideally, your portfolio should showcase an artistic background that supports strong visual decision making, as well as tools, scripts and documentation

Desirables

• Proven experience as a lead technical artist
• Understanding of how to follow and uphold key art direction
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Mel, PyMel, PyQT
• Experience with high level shader languages
• Experience with performance tracking in games
• Experience of different platform requirements
• Knowledge in modern content creation applications
• Experience of end-to-end development pipelines in 3D asset creation
• Ability to script and plan code efficiently
• Experience of optimization techniques and memory budget management

What the job involves

• Lead & foster the development of a team of technical artists of different levels of experience
• Drive quality standards and ensure all content is meeting technical specifications while hitting the art direction criteria
• Lead others on best practice, including defining and documenting game or engine technical specifications and driving workflow optimizations
• Strategically plan and deliver professional quality tools and scripts for art packages (Python, MEL, Z-script) or tools that extend to the game engine
• Author and maintain scripts, tools, or documentation for external asset production
• Ensure all tools have streamlined UX with re-usable modular components, highly adaptable controls together with clear documentation
• Build, document, and maintain a robust framework on which to build the game's foundation (folder structures, naming conventions, etc)
• Support the teams rapid prototyping and problem solving from a technical perspective
• Lead the definition of specifications and strategic planning for a games graphical technology, tooling, and performance
• Be the ‘go to' technical expertise point of contact between code and art, feeding back to the game engineers on system needs and improvements
• Effectively debug and correct very complex, interconnected problems with cross discipline dependencies
• Investigate and champion new techniques that push visual innovation whilst adhering to art direction and game engine parameters

Application process

• Interview process with discussions about working schedules