Principal Technical Artist

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada / Seattle, WAFull-TimePrincipal

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8+ years of experience as a technical artist or closely adjacent role.
At least one shipped product on a real-time, physically based rendering pipeline.
Expert-level proficiency in Unreal Engine 5, including materials, Blueprints, and performance profiling.
Productive programming skills in a combination of Python, C++, HLSL, VEX, and shell.
Demonstrated ability to independently scope, prototype, and ship working systems.
Working command of LLM-based coding tools and generative content tooling.
Strong communication skills for coordinating with rendering, simulation, and product teams.
Generalist mindset with ability to work across content creation, tooling, and performance.
Experience with procedural content generation in Houdini or equivalent tools is preferred.
Familiarity with sensor simulation (RGB, LiDAR, Radar) is a plus.
Experience with distributed or cloud-based rendering pipelines is a plus.
Background in mathematics, physics, or computational graphics is a plus.

Own the technical content stack including asset pipelines, procedural tooling, material systems, and performance budgets.
Deliver and ship tooling in Unreal Engine and Houdini to improve content team productivity.
Implement AI-augmented workflows such as gaussian splat reconstruction and neural texture synthesis.
Profile and optimize real-time GPU and CPU performance in Unreal Engine.
Collaborate across content, rendering, simulation, ML, and product teams to manage tradeoffs between fidelity and performance.
Lead by example and maintain a high standard of technical craft.
Prototype and ship technical solutions quickly to address open-ended production problems.
Actively utilize AI tooling such as LLM-assisted coding and generative content models.

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