Lead Technical Artist - Tools and Pipeline

• Architect and maintain scalable pipelines for all content disciplines — including environments, characters, animation, vehicles, materials, VFX, and cinematics. - Design and implement custom tools, scripts, and workflows to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and standardize asset integration. - Partner with engineering to extend UE5’s editor functionality and improve asset processing. - Work with content creators to ensure pipelines are user-friendly, scalable, and optimized for production needs. - Establish best practices for asset versioning, content validation, and automated build processes. - Lead, mentor, and inspire your team, setting quality and productivity benchmarks. Conduct regular reviews, provide feedback, and support professional growth within the team. - Coordinate with production to manage priorities, schedules, and resourcing for development. - Collaborate & support outsourcing partners by defining pipeline requirements and ensuring seamless integration of external content. Essential Skills, Attributes and Experience

• Extensive  experience in the games industry, with at least 2 shipped AAA titles. - Proven track record as a Senior or Lead Technical Artist with pipeline and tools focus. - Expert knowledge of Unreal Engine 5’s editor, content pipeline, Blueprints, and asset workflows. - Proficiency in scripting/programming languages (Python, C++, C# or similar), with a focus on framework design & implementation. - Strong understanding of version control (Perforce) and build/automation systems (Jenkins, Unreal Build Tools, CI/CD pipelines). - Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills

Highly Desirable

• Experience with automated content validation and performance profiling tools. - Familiarity with large-scale open-world production pipelines in UE5 (World Partition, data layers, HLODs). - Experience integrating procedural workflows (Houdini, Substance Designer) into pipelines. - Knowledge of shader/material pipeline integration and optimization. - Background in outsourcing/vendor management and pipeline support across distributed teams. Hangar 13  prides itself on the diversity of its team members, partners, and communities. For this reason, we remain committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all aspects of the employment relationship, from recruitment and hiring through compensation, benefits, discipline and termination. Please contact us if you need to request reasonable accommodation. SECURITY NOTICE - We have recently been made aware of increasing occurrences of bad actors posing as company HR personnel to gain information from "potential candidates", in the form of job interviews and offers. These scams can be quite sophisticated and appear legitimate. Please know that Hangar 13 and 2K never use instant messaging apps to contact prospective employees or to conduct interviews. If you believe you have been a victim of such a scam, you may fill out a complaint form at https://complaint.ic3.gov/ and https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ detailing as much as possible. We are taking these matters very seriously and apologize for any inconvenience. #LI-Hybrid

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