Principal Technical Artist

Parallel Domain

Principal Technical Artist responsible for developing content and rendering pipelines for advanced autonomous systems at Parallel Domain. Working with Unreal Engine and AI tools to validate next-generation technologies.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeVancouver • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 CA$145,000 - CA$175,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonUnreal Engine

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technical content stack.
Build and ship tools.
Drive AI-augmented workflows.
Optimize real-time performance.
Work across disciplines.
Set the craft bar.
Move quickly.
Use AI tooling actively.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years as a technical artist or in a closely adjacent role, with at least one shipped product on a real-time, physically based rendering pipeline.
Expert-level proficiency in Unreal Engine 5 including materials, Blueprints, performance profiling, the asset pipeline, and the engine's deeper rendering features.
Productive across some combination of Python, C++, HLSL, VEX, and shell.
Demonstrated ability to take open-ended content or workflow problems, scope them yourself, and ship working systems the team adopts—without extensive hand-holding.
Working command of LLM-based coding tools, generative content tooling, and the broader category of AI tools reshaping technical art.
Equally comfortable talking shaders with rendering engineers, performance with simulation engineers, and tradeoffs with non-technical product partners.
Able to move pragmatically across content creation, tooling, rendering, performance, and pipeline.

Benefits

Comp & perks

full health/dental/vision coverage
learning stipend
generous vacation
equity

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Hard Skills & Tools

Unreal Engine 5PythonC++HLSLVEXshell scriptingperformance profilingreal-time renderingAI toolsgenerative content tooling

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilityself-sufficiencypragmatismcross-discipline teamworktechnical discussionworkflow optimizationcontent creation