Expert Technical Artist
Location
Poland
Posted
169 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Expert Technical Artist
CD PROJEKT SA
• Collaborate with artists, engineers, and designers to ensure creative alignment, propose rendering approaches, and translate ideas into achievable realities. • Conduct regular audits of content integrity from physically-based rendering material values and shaders across environments and characters to the stability of lighting and post-production systems. • Contribute to the look development effort by analysing visual targets and breaking them down into actionable, real-time-ready proposals. • Review artistic pipelines and processes to identify potential improvements and propose as well as prototype methods or automation solutions to increase efficiency and productivity. • Mentor and guide fellow developers on best practices and technical approaches to content creation and rendering. • Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve rendering and performance-related challenges while maintaining visual coherence across the scalability targets of various platforms. • Research emerging trends and advancements in rendering technology and outstanding visual achievements.
Job Requirements
- Typically 7+ years of experience in real-time graphics, rendering, physical-based lighting, and shading PBR pipeline or technical artistry, particularly with Unreal Engine.
- A portfolio that showcases your excellence in artistry and computer graphics development with finished projects, preferably showcasing a variety of fields like movies, commercials, and games.
- Strong understanding and proven experience in developing and using computer graphics workflows (lighting, rendering, shaders), particularly with Unreal Engine.
- Proficiency in HLSL, GLSL, or other shader/programming languages.
- Effective communication in a team setting, including documenting or visually explaining complex ideas.
- Initiative in driving shared goals, mentoring peers, and contributing both independently and collaboratively.
- Demonstrated interest in visual aesthetics and design as well as creative and strategic problem-solving abilities that foster innovation.
- Comfortable with iterative processes and learning from feedback, using feedback and data to continuously refine solutions, comfortably work in cycles of prototyping, testing, and improvement, maintaining flexibility and openness to change.
Benefits
- Relocation package – flight ticket, company apartment for your first month, relocating your pet, shipping your belongings — it’s all covered.
- Relocation assistance — processing your legalization operations for you, assistance with finding residence, tax settlements — all you need to feel right at home is taken care of.
- Polish lessons for foreign employees — and for your spouse or partner, too.
- Life insurance — comprehensive pension and insurance plans to protect you and your loved ones.
- Annual budget for medical expenses (for those working outside Poland).
- Psychological and psychiatrist care — free mental health support and various well-being webinars.
- Paid Leave — from 20 to 26 days of holiday for every team member per year, and paid sick leave.
- Gym Membership Reimbursement.
- Menstrual Leave — employees who menstruate can take one extra day off each month when experiencing period pain.
- RED Parents Network — support for working parents, including childcare benefits, and family-friendly events.
- Flexible working hours — start your workday anytime between 8 and 10 AM (CET).
- Training, lectures and courses — internal workshops, external training for each employee, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available.
- Gifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!
- Dog-friendly office — bring your pooch with you and look after them while working!
- Social events — we host regular gatherings at the studio where we can all unwind, play games, and just have some fun together.
- Healthy selections — our canteens offer a range of healthy meals.
- Truly international working environment — a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world.
- Sustainability is an ongoing commitment for us, and our campus has electric car charging points, green zones, and much more.
- A designated space for your bicycle, as well as bicycle repair equipment and showers available whenever you need them.
- An onsite, well-equipped gym with a climbing wall, daily Gym Assistant support, and yoga and boxing classes.
- No dress-code — we like to keep it casual.
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