Technical Artist – RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Jagex
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Spearhead the development of performant shaders and visual tools to support high-quality art creation.
- Collaborate with artists to design, build, and maintain tools, processes, and pipelines that improve efficiency and workflow for artists.
- Develop technical solutions using scripting or programming languages within production applications.
- Assist other artists with technical challenges and provide guidance on best practices.
- Profile and optimise the game, shaders, and systems to ensure smooth performance across the project.
- Support the wider Tech Art initiative by identifying workflow inefficiencies and implementing practical solutions.
- Maintain strong communication and collaboration with multiple disciplines to deliver technically sound and visually compelling results.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of shaders and the rendering pipeline, with particular expertise in Unreal Engine’s Material system.
- Good understanding of Blueprints and Unreal workflows.
- A self-motivated, pragmatic individual who takes ownership of their work from start to finish.
- Eagerness to learn, grow, and continually improve both technical and artistic skills.
- Ideally, a portfolio showcasing creative, technically innovative work.
Benefits
- Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
- Minimum 6% Pension contributions
- Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
- Life Insurance
- Discretionary annual performance bonus
- Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
- Flexible working hours
- 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
shadersrendering pipelineUnreal EngineMaterial systemBlueprintsscriptingprogramming languagestechnical solutionsprofilingoptimisation
Soft skills
self-motivatedpragmaticownershipeagerness to learncollaborationcommunicationguidanceproblem-solvingcreativityadaptability