Lead Technical Artist

We are Fool’s Theory, a company from Bielsko-Biała in Poland, creators of the game Seven: The Days Long Gone and freshly released The Thaumaturge. Now that The Witcher Remake is in development, we are actively seeking skilled individuals to join our team for this project, developed in cooperation with CD PROJEKT RED studio. At this point, the game is in its initial phases, and we have seasoned developers who have contributed to past Witcher titles on board. Sounds interesting? Get in touch with us!

Responsibilities

• Overseeing and coordinating the work of the small technical art team, with cooperation with the technical director.
• Searching for implementation solutions in the Unreal Engine 5 engine, using engine tools and editors.
• Creating shaders, physical simulations, post processes, gameplay effects.
• Creating procedural effects / assets / features using Houdini.
• Graphics optimization, gpu and cpu profiling.

Requirements

• Very good knowledge of Unreal Engine 5.
• Knowledge of Houdini and HLSL.
• Knowledge of graphics implementation and optimization.
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to group work.
• Ability to coordinate work of technical artists with all other departments (especially artists, level designers and programmers).
• Fluent English.
• Ability to solve problems.
• Refraining from using AI generative tools to produce imagery for this job.

We offer

• Flexible working hours (core hours 10:00-16:00).
• Working fully remotely, or from our office in Bielsko-Biała.
• Working in a group of experienced specialists who are willing to share their knowledge.
• Private medical insurance (Enel-med).
• Access to MyBenefit platform with a possibility to co-finance a Multisport Card.
• English language lessons.
• Psychological support.