Technical Artist – Unreal Engine (Performance & Optimisation Focus)
 
Salary: Up to £65k
Location: London, 3 days / week onsite
Type: Full-time, Permanent
 
We are supporting a well-established production house in their search for an experienced Unreal Engine Technical Artist. This is a key hire aimed at strengthening their technical pipeline and ensuring delivery of visually impressive, high-performance real-time content within Unreal Engine.
 
They require someone who understands the inner workings of the engine and can contribute meaningfully to optimisation, asset management, and scalable project delivery.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Optimise Unreal Engine projects at a low level, including GPU, RAM, and rendering performance.
• Profile, debug and resolve performance issues across large-scale scenes.
• Prepare projects for deployment – including asset clean-up, packaging, and documentation.
• Build and maintain efficient real-time content pipelines.
• Work closely with technical and creative teams to ensure performance targets are met without compromising visual quality.
• Implement and refine systems using Blueprints and other in-engine tools.

 
Required Skills & Experience

• Strong Unreal Engine experience, ideally on complex or performance-critical projects.
• In-depth understanding of real-time optimisation – including draw call reduction, texture streaming, memory management, LOD systems, and light baking.
• Proven experience preparing and cleaning up projects for final delivery or client handoff.
• Advanced Blueprint knowledge for implementing technical functionality.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work across departments (art, engineering, production).

 
Desirable Skills

• Experience with C++ (enough to support tool development or collaborate with engineering teams).
• Familiarity with virtual production, visualisation, or real-time graphics pipelines.
• Understanding of real-time shaders, materials, or post-processing performance impacts.
• Experience working in content-heavy or fast-turnaround production environments.

 
Package

• Salary up to £65,000 per annum.
• Flexible working arrangements (hybrid).
• Excellent head-room for progression.
• Opportunity to work with a technically skilled team on ambitious, high-performance projects across real-time content delivery.