Role Description We’re looking for a Technical Artist to join our team as we move into full production on our debut game Ardem, an open world survival game developed in Unreal Engine 5. In this role, your primary focus will be performance optimization and technical quality across the game. You will work directly in the editor and in game builds, profiling and optimizing GPU, CPU, and memory usage, while helping the team identify and resolve rendering, performance, and stability issues. The role combines deep technical analysis with hands-on problem solving and close collaboration with art and engineering. If you enjoy digging into performance problems, improving pipelines, and acting as a technical guide for artists and developers, we’d love to hear from you. Tasks - Profile and optimize GPU, CPU, and memory performance using tools such as Unreal Insights, RenderDoc, and other relevant profiling solutions. - Investigate and resolve rendering, performance, and stability issues across the project. - Act as a technical guardian for the art team, defining and communicating performance requirements and best practices. - Support artists in creating efficient assets, materials, and shaders that meet visual and performance goals. - Work closely with the Art Lead to maintain a consistent technical and visual quality bar. - Design and implement tools, pipelines, and workflows to streamline production and improve team efficiency. - Help establish and refine technical guidelines to prevent recurring performance issues. - Collaborate closely with engineers and designers to ensure technical decisions align with gameplay and production needs. Qualifications - 3 to 5 years of professional experience as a Technical Artist within the games industry. - Strong hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 5, including its profiling, debugging, and optimization tools. - Solid understanding of rendering performance, real-time graphics constraints, and memory management. - Experience analyzing and optimizing complex scenes, materials, and shaders. - Ability to independently identify technical problems and drive solutions to completion. - Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical topics clearly to non-technical team members. - Fluent spoken and written English. Requirements - Strong experience with Python, Blueprints, or similar scripting languages for tool development. - Experience building custom tools and pipelines for art teams. - Knowledge of Blender and Blender scripting. - Experience working on open world games. - Experience working in an indie or small team environment. Working Model - Fully remote. - Freelance, with a full-time option for candidates based in Germany. - Flexible working hours with a strong focus on ownership and trust. - Direct collaboration within a small, focused team. Benefits - Work on Ardem, highly anticipated survival game and set a new benchmark. - Small team with high impact, results-driven mindset and fast decision-making. - High ownership and creative freedom. - Flexible working hours (results > green dots). Application Instructions Please include the following in your application: - Your CV and a short introduction about yourself and your background. - A portfolio (Git repositories, videos, or similar) showcasing recent work. - A brief description of your role and responsibilities on the showcased projects. - Your availability and your typical contract rate. Company Description Techtive Games is a Germany-based video game developer creating Ardem, an open-world survival game. Built by former modding veterans, the studio is driven by curiosity, technical innovation, and a strong belief in empowering creators through modern tools. Techtive Games combines AA-level ambition with an independent mindset to push development practices forward and build immersive worlds built to be played, modified, and expanded.

Role Description Join the team behind Disney Dreamlight Valley, a cross-platform life-sim adventure game, and help create immersive, stylized 3D worlds inspired by iconic Disney & Pixar universes. You’ll play a key role in shaping environments that players explore every day, balancing strong artistic vision with technical performance. Qualifications - Detail-oriented with a strong artistic eye - Proactive and solution-driven - Comfortable working both independently and in a team - Open to feedback and able to iterate quickly - Strong communication skills Requirements - In-Engine & Level Art - Strong understanding of artistic composition (storytelling, mood, appeal) - Ability to create clear, readable environments that support gameplay and navigation - Solid technical knowledge of real-time environments, including: Collision, NavMesh, Draw Calls, Line of Sight, Vertex painting, foliage painting, terrain editing, Day/Night cycle implementation - Good understanding of lighting principles and their impact on mood and readability - Ability to collaborate effectively with Level Design and understand gameplay needs - 3D Asset Creation - Mastery of trimsheet workflows - Experience with modular kit creation (architecture, cliffs, environment systems) - Solid knowledge of 3D props modeling - Experience with one of: 3ds Max / Maya / Blender - Knowledge of Substance 3D, Photoshop, and ZBrush - Experience working in Unity - Understanding of optimization for real-time environments - Experience with modular workflows and asset pipelines Benefits - Possibility to work remotely in a global product company with talented people - Competitive salary based on your experience and skills - 21 days of paid vacation, 5 paid sick days, plus national holidays - Medical insurance and access to a psychologist - Parental leave support - Access to internal learning platform (courses, trainings, certifications) - Employee Referral Program with attractive bonuses - Full technical support and equipment provided Company Description Ready to hit start? Send us your CV and portfolio, we’d love to see your worlds.

• Executing across the full range of creative outputs: 2D motion, AI generation, editing, game replay recording, and elements of graphic design. • Co-developing concepts with the Creative Lead - contributing ideas and bringing strong visual instincts to the collaboration. • Taking briefs and running with them independently, making confident creative decisions through to a finished output. • Actively integrating AI generation tools into your production workflow as a creative and efficiency multiplier. • Applying UA creative knowledge to every output - understanding what makes a mobile ad perform.

• Create high-quality animated videos using AI-driven tools and workflows • Translate creative briefs, concepts, and storyboards into compelling cinematic sequences • Apply strong fundamentals of direction, composition, camera language, editing, lighting, and color • Bring characters to life with a strong understanding of acting and performance in animation • Ensure a high level of character consistency across shots and sequences — one of the key challenges in current AI-based pipelines • Refine and elevate generated outputs through post-production, compositing, and video editing • Combine and polish multiple generated clips into cohesive, high-end final videos • Work with both text-based and node-based AI tools as part of the creative pipeline • Collaborate closely with artists, creative leads, and cross-functional stakeholders to achieve the highest visual bar • Continuously explore and integrate new AI tools and workflows into production • Help define best practices and workflows for AI animation creation within the team