Senior Technical Artist

CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Senior Technical Artist with a focus on Art and Visuals to join our team working on The Witcher 4 the first game in a brand-new saga. You will contribute advanced artistic and technical expertise attention to detail and a passion for developing high-quality accessible visuals that support our ambitious artistic and technological goals. This role is focused on Landscape.

Daily Responsibilities

• Create and maintain key shaders for the game environment including both custom shader code and work within the Unreal Engine Material Editor with a strong focus on optimization.
• Utilize C and Unreal Engine expertise to build robust tools and support technical pipelines.
• Apply rendering knowledge to ensure visual fidelity and conduct detailed performance and memory profiling to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Fine-tune materials and shaders to behave correctly under different lighting conditions. Collaborate and exchange 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 :

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in real-time graphics rendering physically based lighting shading (PBR pipelines) or technical artistry particularly with Unreal Engine. We also value diverse career paths and equivalent hands-on experience.
• Strong understanding of rendering systems and techniques particularly in Unreal Engine.
• Proficiency in HLSL GLSL or other shader/programming languages.
• Experience using C in the context of Unreal Engine.
• Ability to communicate effectively in a team setting including documenting or visually explaining complex ideas.
• Experience with performance and memory profiling.
• Comfortable taking initiative and driving tasks forward while collaborating closely with others.
• Ability to collaborate in English in a cross-functional environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in creating pipeline automation tools using Python.
• Experience using texturing software such as Substance Designer/Painter.

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.
  
  Estimated pay range for this position: 21 300  33 715 PLN gross monthly.
  Final offers are dependent on job-related factors like experience and qualifications.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time