Technical Artist – VR Gaming
Location: Remote, UK based only
Contract Duration: Until December 2026
Working Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00am–6:00pm
Join a World-Class VR Gaming Team
We’re partnering with a globally recognised technology and entertainment organisation that develops one of the most successful VR rhythm gaming experiences in the world. They are expanding their team and are seeking an experienced Technical Artist to help push visual quality and performance to the next level.
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of art and technology, contributing directly to immersive VR experiences enjoyed by millions of players worldwide.
The Role
As a Technical Artist, you will be responsible for ensuring stunning visual quality while maintaining optimal performance in a demanding VR environment. You will collaborate closely with artists, engineers, and designers to develop tools, workflows, shaders, visual effects, and assets that enhance the player experience.
You’ll be joining a team of talented artists within a larger multidisciplinary game development group focused on delivering polished, high-performance VR content.
Key Responsibilities
- Improve and help define environment art, VFX workflows, tools, and shader pipelines
- Create polished, performant visual effects for gameplay and UI
- Develop creative technical solutions for real-time VR rendering challenges
- Contribute to and maintain custom hand-written HLSL shader systems
- Create original textures, meshes, sprite sheets, and technical art assets
- Work with Unity and external tools to identify the best solution for each task
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical, visual, and performance issues
- Support teammates with technical art challenges and best practices
- Drive visual quality while maintaining performance targets for VR platforms
Required Skills & Experience
Essential
- 5+ years of professional experience working with Unity
- 2+ years in a dedicated Technical Artist role
- Extensive experience creating both 3D and 2D game assets
- Deep understanding of rendering pipelines, particularly Forward and Built-In Rendering
- Strong knowledge of mobile and VR optimisation techniques
- Experience creating custom shaders using hand-written HLSL
- Advanced Unity expertise including:
- Animation systems
- Timelines
- Particle Systems
- VFX Graph
- Nested Prefabs
- Material Property Blocks
Technical Art Expertise
- Experience using procedural DCC tools
- Ability to bake arbitrary data into textures and mesh properties
- Strong understanding of real-time rendering techniques
- Proven experience creating interactive visual effects
- Comfortable balancing artistic vision with technical constraints
Desirable Experience
- Creating original textures, meshes, sprite sheets, and shaders
- Experience shipping VR titles
- Experience developing tools and workflows for artists
- Strong problem-solving skills within real-time rendering environments
What Makes This Opportunity Unique?
- Work on a globally recognised VR gaming franchise
- Influence the visual quality of a leading VR experience
- Collaborate with highly experienced artists and engineers
- Contribute to cutting-edge VR technology and workflows
- Fully remote position within the UK
- Long-term contract opportunity through the end of 2026
Interview Process
- Two interview stages
- Portfolio review required
- Please include a portfolio link within your application
If you’re passionate about creating exceptional real-time visuals and enjoy solving complex artistic and technical challenges, we’d love to hear from you.
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