Principal Technical Artist

Role overview Serve as a senior technical-art subject-matter expert, helping an art department raise visual quality and technical consistency across a game project. The role’s main contribution is enabling the wider team through analysis, documented practices, education, and collaboration, with some direct work on tools, visual effects, or art when needed.

Responsibilities - Define, document, and promote effective practices for creating artistic content. - Work with art and technology teams to diagnose visual-fidelity or performance issues and identify suitable fixes. - Help artists use tools and production workflows effectively. - Collaborate with project stakeholders to set benchmarks and technical settings for target platforms. - Contribute directly to tools, visual effects, or art where the project calls for it.

Requirements - Previous experience at a comparable level in technical art. - Deep knowledge of contemporary art pipelines, especially materials, lighting, color grading, or environmental art. - Extensive experience with 3D content-creation tools such as Blender or Substance. - Ability to analyze performance using tools such as heatmaps or frame-time graphs. - Strong written and verbal communication, with a pragmatic and collaborative approach to problem-solving.

Nice to have - C++ or Python experience building tools for creative teams.

Benefits and work setup - Short-term contingent engagement expected to run through July 2027. - Hybrid or remote work within the UK is available, with a preference for one day per week on site in Guildford. - The listed benefits include 25 days of annual leave plus 8 public holidays, flexitime where approved, free parking, an on-site canteen, and cycle storage and showers.