Senior Technical Artist, Characters

CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Senior Technical Artist with a focus on Characters Lookdev to join our team in Warsaw to work on The Witcher 4. Youll bring advanced skillsboth artistic and technicalalong with attention to detail and a passion for crafting expressive high-quality characters that meet our ambitious visual and performance goals. This role offers the chance to collaborate closely with developers across disciplines to push whats possible in real-time character creation.

Daily Responsibilities

• Create and maintain key character shaders encompassing both custom shader code and work within the Unreal Engine Material Editor with a strong focus on optimization.
• Utilize C and deep Unreal Engine experience to build robust tools and support technical pipelines.
• Apply strong rendering knowledge to ensure visual fidelity and conduct detailed performance / memory profiling to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Fine tune materials and shaders to behave correctly under different lighting conditions. Discuss collaborate and feedback with the lighting team and other technical artists.
• Build tools and workflows to empower content creators leveraging both Blueprints and C integration.
• Identify and resolve pipeline challenges support asset optimization and ensure smooth delivery across all target platforms.
• Explore and implement new Unreal Engine features collaborating closely with engineers and Epic Games to expand whats possible in real-time content creation.
• Mentor teammates and help foster a supportive collaborative tech art culture where curiosity knowledge-sharing and experimentation are encouraged.

Qualifications :

• At least 5 years of experience in a technical art role within game development.
• Proficiency with Unreal Engine 5 including shader development and system integration.
• Experience with 3D content creation software (e.g. Blender Autodesk Maya Substance Painter).
• Tool development experience using C.
• Experienced in shader creation and optimization (both in code and within Material Editor) preferably with some experience with character skin and cloth related materials.
• Experience with HLSL.
• Understanding of different lighting techniques in Unreal released and experimental.
• Strong understanding of rendering systems and techniques.
• Skilled in performance and memory profiling.
• Track record of solving complex technical challenges and debugging with precision.
• Self-motivated goal-driven and experienced in taking ownership of high-impact tasks.
• Strong cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication skills.
• Comfortable communicating in English in a collaborative cross-functional environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in creating tools using Blueprints
• Knowledge of the character creation pipeline
• Proficient in material creation
• Skilled in Python scripting
• Familiar with Substance Painter and Substance Designer

Please include a portfolio that showcases your technical art contributions and if possible code samples or relevant tools/scripts that demonstrate your problem-solving and development skills.

Additional Information :

Working mode

• Office-First: working primarily from the Warsaw office. Our team works primarily from our Warsaw office so we give priority to candidates who are open to relocating to Poland.
• For selected roles remote work from within Europe may be considered.

Relocation Support

• Relocation package flight ticket company apartment for your first month relocating your pet shipping your belongings its all covered. 
• Relocation assistance processing your legalization operations for you assistance with finding residence tax settlements all you need to feel right at home is taken care of.
• Polish lessons for foreign employees and for your spouse or partner too.

Health & Well-Being

• Life insurance comprehensive pension and insurance plans to protect you and your loved ones.
• Annual budget for medical expenses (for those working outside Poland).
• Psychological and psychiatrist care free mental health support and various well-being webinars.
• Paid Leave from 20 to 26 days of holiday for every team member per year and paid sick leave.
• Gym Membership Reimbursement.
• Menstrual Leave employees who menstruate can take one extra day off each month when experiencing period pain.
• RED Parents Network support for working parents including childcare benefits and family-friendly events.

Perks & Professional Growth

• Flexible working hours start your workday anytime between 8 and 10 AM (CET).
• REDs have access to the cafeteria platform through which they can receive vouchers and codes to shops cinemas and public transport reimbursement.
• Training lectures and courses internal workshops external training for each employee knowledge-sharing initiatives online tutorials and e-learning classes are all available. Theres always something to learn!
• Gifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!

Social Activities & Life in the Office

• Dog-friendly office bring your pooch with you and look after them while working! Theres always a furry friend or two to meet at the studio.
• Social events we host regular gatherings at the studio where we can all unwind play games and just have some fun together.
• Healthy selections our canteens offer a range of healthy meals.
• Truly international working environment a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world.
• Sustainability is an ongoing commitment for us and our campus has  electric car charging points green zones and much more. Read all about it on our Beyond the Game Blog.
• A designated space for your bicycle as well as bicycle repair equipment and showers available whenever you need them.
• An onsite well-equipped gym with a climbing wall daily Gym Assistant support and yoga and boxing classes.
• No dress-code we like to keep it casual.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time