Senior Technical Artist

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Technical Artist to establish a robust Tech Art pipeline in our Paris studio, integrating tools like 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.

Requirements

• 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)

Nice to Have

• Experience with 3DSmax and Maya
• Familiarity with UE Insights

We Offer

• Full-time position
• Hybrid work model
• Opportunity to build the Tech Art discipline from the ground up

About the Company

This role is foundational: you build the Tech Art discipline in Paris from a blank page. Possible evolutions follow naturally from that structuring trajectory - broader scope, increased seniority across other Gameloft productions, or expanded management responsibility as the Tech Art team grows around you.

Who You Would Be Working With

You report to our Tech Team Lead. You may mentor one Tech Artist and collaborate with all the other disciplines leads. You sit at the heart of a Paris-based Tech team in active structuring on our new game pre-production.

Who You Are

• 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