About the Position

Work Model: Hybrid
Location: Paris, France

We are seeking a Senior Technical Artist to establish a robust pipeline in our Paris studio, integrating Houdini and Blender into Unreal Engine.

Responsibilities

Tech Art pipeline ownership: You own the asset pipeline across Blender, Houdini, 3DSmax/Maya, and Unreal. You industrialize it, document it, and make it scalable.
Team mentoring: You mentor one Tech Art person and support her ramp-up on UE, JIRA task management, prioritization, and follow-up.
Cross-team alignment: You align Tech and Art teams on a shared pipeline. Daily collaboration with Gameplay, Tech, Design, and Art teams.
Rendering & memory performance: You identify bottlenecks in Unreal, prioritize fixes, and produce reporting via Unreal Insights to back up technical choices.
Shader authoring: You write HLSL shaders and work in Unreal’s Material Editor, Niagara (VFX), and Sequencer.

Mastery of Houdini and Blender
Solid Python scripting skills
Strong knowledge of the Unreal Engine asset pipeline
Knowledge of UE rendering and graphics pipeline: Blueprints, Material Editor, Niagara (VFX), Sequencer, Unreal Insights
HLSL and Material Editor mastery for shader authoring
Ability to identify and prioritize technical bottlenecks (rendering performance, memory)
Proven experience in management and mentoring
Professional French and English (English is increasingly used day-to-day)

Diplomatic: You navigate between Tech and Art teams with different cultures and build consensus.
Synthetic: You can boil down a complex technical problem into something any stakeholder can grasp.
Autonomous and structured: You manage your own time, you arbitrate between urgent and important without being told.
A builder: The idea of laying the foundations of a discipline rather than joining an already-established setup genuinely appeals to you.

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