Technical Artist

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We are seeking Technical Artists to join Rustic Roost Studio - a co-development branch of Donkey Crew, working on titles within the Snail Games USA portfolio.

In this role, you'll bridge the gap between art and engineering - optimizing assets, building and maintaining pipelines, and ensuring visual quality meets performance targets across a diverse slate of projects spanning realistic sci-fi, fantasy medieval, and beyond, all built on Unreal Engine.

We're looking for passionate, hands-on Technical Artists based in Poland or Europe who thrives in a collaborative, fast-moving environment, thinks proactively, and enjoys working alongside talented teams from around the world. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to improve and optimize Unreal Engine game visuals (lighting, materials, effects, environments etc.).
• Work on materials, weather systems, particles, lighting etc. within Unreal Engine.
• Support level designers with automation tools and procedural generation techniques.
• Create and maintain pipelines and workflows for asset creation and integration.
• Troubleshoot technical art issues and propose scalable solutions.
• Help define and enforce best practices for performance, visuals, and production efficiency.
• Contribute to the broader creative and technical vision of the project.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a Technical Artist in the video game industry.
• Strong proficiency with Unreal Engine 5, and its associated tools. (Blueprint, Material Editor etc.)
• A solid understanding of asset optimization and real-time rendering principles.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for creating beautiful, immersive, and technically sound game experiences.
• Strong understanding of modern game dev pipelines.
• A good eye for visual quality
• Fluent English communication skills, both written and verbal.

Bonus skills

• C++, HLSL, Python
• Proficiency with Substance Designer, Houdini and other procedural tools or real-time physics systems.
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools.
• Experience with Profiling tools to identify areas for improvement.
• Tool creation to improve workflows.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Chance to work on great, well-established and new IPs in the international environment.
• Working in the on-site / hybrid / remote model.
• Benefits and possibility of relocation support for foreigners aiming to work onsite; including private health insurance, and general assistance with settling.

The Joint Controllers of your personal data are Donkey Crew sp. z o.o. and Rustic Roost Studio sp. z o.o. Click the link below to get information on how we process your data:
https://www.donkey.team/recruitment-clause-dc-rr

Please be advised that we will contact only selected candidates.

If you are interested, send us your portfolio, CV and other information (in English).

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