Expert Technical Artist (Unannounced Project)

We're looking for an Expert Technical Artist to join our team at 11 bit studios . In this role, you'll combine your artistic understanding with technical expertise to help us create visually compelling, large-scale environments while ensuring they perform smoothly in Unreal Engine.

Hybrid work in our Warsaw office is preferred for this role.

What will you be doing on a day-to-day basis?

• Collaborating with Environment Art and Tech/Gameplay teams to integrate visual assets into Unreal Engine and resolve technical challenges.
• Designing and optimizing performance-efficient shaders and materials, including advanced snow and ice, weather effects, wind, water surfaces and terrain layering/blending, tailored to the scale of an open-world game.
• Developing and maintaining procedural tools (Unreal PCG, Houdini) to support the generation of vegetation, rocks, paths and complex terrain structures.
• Regularly profiling and optimizing memory and rendering budgets, including draw calls, polygon counts, textures, VRAM and streaming, using Unreal Engine tools such as Unreal Insights, PSO and GPU Visualizer.
• Creating and improving scripts and tools for production workflows, including Python scripting in Unreal Engine, asset validation, automated LOD generation and level subdivision.
• Supporting the implementation of lighting systems (Lumen, Virtual Shadow Maps) and particle effects (Niagara), with a focus on maintaining smooth performance in FPP gameplay.
• Creating clear technical specifications and guidelines for both internal artists and external outsourcing partners.