Skydance is hiring: Technical Artist, Senior in Austin

Overview

We are searching for a Senior Technical Artist to join our core team developing a high‑quality AAA single‑player story‑driven action‑adventure game built using the Unreal Engine. The Senior Technical Artist will partner with the Technical Art Director to help shape long‑term goals for art and cinematics pipelines including rigging, animation, cinematics, and platform performance, ensuring we can deliver projects on time and within performance budgets.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Technical Art Director to design, build, and support content creation, animation, and pipeline tools inside and outside the engine using Python and/or C++.


• Create assets and systems requiring technical art experience in the engine (blueprints, material networks, control rig, performance optimization, etc.).


• Use your Sequencer and Maya expertise to troubleshoot and problem‑solve cinematic issues.


• Collaborate with artists, technical artists, engineers, and designers both internal and external to ensure efficient workflows and pipelines.


• Document, maintain, enforce, and provide guidance on asset integrity, conventions, and performance budgets.


• Create and maintain clear, relevant usage documentation for technical art workflows and best practices.

Requirements

• 5 years of professional game experience.


• Unreal experience with expertise in Sequencer, Blueprints, characters, MetaHumans, Control Rig, LODs, and performance optimization.


• Intermediate Python scripting experience creating artist and pipeline tools in Maya and/or Unreal using a Qt framework.


• Proficiency and production experience in modeling, rigging, and animation with an understanding of the full CG pipeline.


• Familiarity with game performance evaluation tools to profile CPU, GPU, and memory performance on multiple target platforms.

Pluses

• Experience rigging for games or film.


• Intermediate C++ skills with Maya and/or Unreal.

Additional Information

We realize that skills and expertise can come from many different experiences and paths, and we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements as written in the job description. #Games #LI‑hybrid

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