Senior Technical Artist

Avalanche Studios Group

Senior Technical Artist optimizing game performance and enhancing shaders at Avalanche Studios. Requires experience in game development and strong technical skills in art and graphics.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeStockholm • 🇸🇪 SwedenSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify performance bottlenecks, profile game content, and implement critical optimizations for memory and performance
Drive shader development, migration, and improvement in close collaboration with our rendering programmers
Maintain, support, and improve artist tooling and pipelines to streamline creative workflows
Work autonomously within the team to translate milestone goals into actionable technical art tasks
Proactively collaborate across disciplines, giving and receiving constructive feedback to level up the team’s output

Requirements

What you’ll need

An industry veteran with 8 to 10+ years of experience as an technical artist
A self-motivated problem solver who requires minimal direction and loves finding creative solutions to technical challenges
Highly skilled in Maya with a deep understanding of modern game-engine pipelines and graphics/rendering principles
Strong in scripting with Python and comfortable reading and navigating C++ code bases
Familiar with HLSL (or a similar shading language) and passionate about shader development
An expert at debugging, profiling, and optimizing complex game assets for memory and performance
An excellent communicator who builds strong relationships with the team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Our hybrid model requires you to be in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays to foster collaboration and creativity.
We create worlds beyond limits and are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Relocation assistance is not available for this role.

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Hard Skills & Tools

shader developmentMayaPythonC++HLSLdebuggingprofilingoptimizinggame assetsgraphics/rendering principles

Soft Skills

self-motivatedproblem solvercreative solutionscollaborationconstructive feedbackcommunicationrelationship buildingautonomous workteam output improvementactionable task translation