Senior Unreal Technical Artist

About the role

Pure Imagination Labs’ Senior Unreal Technical Artist owns asset integration and performance readiness in Unreal Engine. Optimizes externally authored content for real-time use, manages LODs, lightmaps, and asset organization. Builds lightweight tools and utilities to streamline asset validation and pipeline efficiency. Supports install-phase testing, visual troubleshooting, and cross-discipline content alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical quality and performance-readiness of real-time 3D content across environments, props, and characters in Unreal Engine.
• Integrate and optimize externally authored assets, ensuring they meet runtime standards for fidelity, performance, and compatibility.
• Prepare and refine content for clean import—including naming, scale, collisions, UVs, LODs, and lightmaps—while maintaining project structure and technical discipline.
• Tune scene and asset performance using Nanite, Lumen, level streaming, and profiling tools to support stability across cinematic and interactive contexts.
• Collaborate closely with art, design, and engineering to ensure assets are readable, performant, and function as expected across physical-digital systems.
• Develop lightweight tools or process enhancements using Blueprint, Python, or similar scripting methods to improve asset integration, workflow efficiency, and content validation.
• Support in-world testing and install readiness by troubleshooting asset behavior, visual bugs, or runtime issues in staging and QA environments.
• Contribute to visual consistency across materials, surfacing, simple VFX, and animated elements as needed to support experience delivery.
• Affirmatively assist in defining content conventions and scalable practices that support future reuse, optimization, and multi-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or equivalent from two-year college/technical school required.
• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university is preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience working in Unreal Engine (UE4/UE5) as a technical artist, 3D generalist, or real-time content integrator.
• Solid working knowledge with Unreal systems, including Nanite, Lumen, LODs, collisions, lightmaps, and performance profiling.
• Proficiency with DCC tools such as Maya, Blender, Substance, or Houdini for asset prep, optimization, and content validation.
• Proficient in runtime performance considerations and scalable content structuring for team-based delivering clarity.
• Familiarity with scripting or automation tools such as Unreal Blueprint, Python, or similar, to support asset integration, workflow efficiency, or content validation.
• Collaborative team member able to work between art, design, and engineering groups to support cohesive real-time experiences.

Additional Qualifications

• Proven ability preparing assets for cinematic cutscenes or physically installed environments.
• Experience supporting immersive or simulation-based projects in a real-time production context.
• Solid foundation with Sequencer, Control Rig, or Niagara from a content staging or testing perspective.
• Familiarity with in-editor utilities such as material switching, proxy replacement, or asset validation tools.
• Proven ability to contribute to pipeline decisions or scaling asset workflows across external vendors or multi-project teams.
• Flexibility to travel for live staging and working on-site for installations, tests, or technical rehearsals.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with internal teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality and professionalism.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k).
• Medical leave.
• Company-sponsored perks.
• Bonus and incentive plan.

Pay

$120,000 annually

Schedule

Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week.

Required Residence

This candidate must live or reside in the state of Kansas; or relocate within six (6) months of offered employment.

Required Travel

This candidate is required to travel up to 15% for specific project installations.