Senior Technical Artist

About the role

We work alongside some of the world's leading game developers to solve complex technical challenges and bring exceptional player experiences to life. As our projects continue to grow in scale and technical ambition, we're looking for a Senior Technical Artist to help drive performance and visual quality on a large-scale open world title. This is a highly technical role focused on environment optimization, working at the intersection of art and engineering to ensure expansive game worlds run efficiently without compromising visual fidelity.

You'll collaborate closely with artists, rendering engineers, and content teams to optimize assets, materials, textures, shaders, and workflows, while developing scalable solutions that support the creation of high-quality open world environments. If you're passionate about squeezing every millisecond from a frame, solving complex technical challenges, and enabling artists to deliver stunning content at scale, then we'd like to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Drive optimization efforts across large-scale open world environments, ensuring visual quality targets are achieved within performance and memory budgets.
• Implement and refine LOD, HLOD, material, texture, and asset streaming solutions to improve runtime performance.
• Profile CPU, GPU, and memory usage, identifying bottlenecks and working with Art and Engineering teams to resolve them.
• Ad hoc development of tools, workflows, and technical solutions in C++ and engine scripting to improve efficiency and content scalability.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Technical Artist on AAA titles, with a strong focus on environment optimization and performance.
• Deep understanding of LOD systems, materials, textures, shaders, asset streaming, and real-time rendering principles.
• Strong C++ programming skills, with experience developing tools and pipelines within modern game engines.
• Excellent collaboration and problem-solving skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between Art and Engineering teams.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Dynamic, multicultural, and fun work environment.
• Opportunities to work with the world's leading provider of game services.
• Empowerment and regular progression opportunities to ensure employee growth.

About Side

Side (formerly PTW) is a global video game development and services provider, offering technical and creative solutions to many of the largest developers and studios around the world. Founded in 2009 and drawing on 30+ years of experience from our parent company in Japan, Side has grown to become a global force with 20 studios in 14 countries across North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. Our industry-leading services include game development, art production, audio production, quality assurance, localization, localization QA, player support, community management, and datasets.