Lead Technical Artist / Artiste technique principal(e)
NBC Universal
As a Lead Technical Artist , you are responsible for defining and driving the technical art vision, standards, workflows, and execution across the project. You sit at the intersection of Art, Design, Engineering, Animation, UI, Audio, and Production, ensuring that the project's visual ambition remains achievable, scalable, performant, and maintainable across PC, console, and mobile platforms. You are both a strategic leader and a hands-on problem solver, overseeing the technical health of the project while building the systems, pipelines, and teams that enable content creators to work efficiently and effectively. Your role is to ensure technical art is a force multiplier for the entire development organization. Lead, mentor, and grow the Technical Art organization, including hiring, performance management, career development, and technical leadership across all technical art disciplines. Define and enforce technical art standards, workflows, performance budgets, and content requirements across characters, animation, gameplay, VFX, environments, UI, and audio. Own the technical art strategy for Unreal Engine 5 across PC, console, and mobile platforms, ensuring that content scales appropriately while maintaining visual quality and runtime performance. Partner closely with Engineering to drive engine extensions, rendering features, content validation systems, automation, build pipelines, custom asset workflows, profiling tools, and platform optimization initiatives. Own and evolve the project's content pipeline strategy from DCC tools through Unreal Engine and deployment workflows. Establish standards for asset ingestion, validation, automation, CI/CD integration, and creator-facing tooling. Drive cross-disciplinary alignment between Art, Design, Animation, Gameplay Engineering, Rendering Engineering, Tools Engineering, and Production. Ensure technical constraints and content requirements are clearly understood and effectively implemented. Provide technical leadership for character pipelines, rigging systems, shaders, materials, animation technologies, gameplay VFX, runtime interactions, and content optimization workflows. Build and oversee tooling and automation using Unreal Engine tooling frameworks, Python, and DCC scripting to improve productivity, consistency, and content quality across the project. Define and maintain platform performance budgets, profiling methodologies, validation rules, and optimization standards, with particular attention to mobile scalability, memory constraints, thermals, battery usage, and rendering cost. Establish and maintain robust documentation, onboarding processes, standards, and technical guidance to ensure teams can successfully scale and operate with confidence. Review technical art work across the project and provide clear, actionable feedback that improves quality, performance, maintainability, and scalability. Partner with leadership to define and execute the long-term technical art roadmap as the project evolves into a scalable platform. Serve as the escalation point for the most complex technical art, content pipeline, performance, and tooling challenges on the project. Stay current with industry trends, Unreal Engine advancements, content creation technologies, rendering techniques, tooling practices, automation frameworks, and mobile platform developments. En tant qu’ Artiste technique principal(e) , vous êtes responsable de définir et de piloter la vision, les normes, les flux de travail et l’exécution en art technique pour l’ensemble du projet. Vous œuvrez à l’intersection de l’Art, du Design, de l’Ingénierie, de l’Animation, de l’UI, de l’Audio et de la Production, en veillant à ce que l’ambition visuelle du projet demeure réalisable, évolutive, performante et maintenable sur les plateformes PC, console et mobile. Vous êtes à la fois un leader stratégique et une personne de terrain capable de résoudre des problèmes complexes. Vous supervisez la santé technique du projet tout en développant les systèmes, pipelines et équipes qui permettent aux créateurs de contenu de travailler efficacement. Votre rôle consiste à faire de l’art technique un véritable multiplicateur de performance pour l’ensemble de l’organisation de développement. Responsabilités Diriger, encadrer et faire évoluer l’organisation d’Art technique, notamment en matière de recrutement, de gestion de la performance, de développement de carrière et de leadership technique dans toutes les disciplines de l’art technique. Définir et faire respecter les normes en art technique, les flux de travail, les budgets de performance et les exigences de contenu pour les personnages, l’animation, le gameplay, les effets visuels (VFX), les environnements, l’interface utilisateur (UI) et l’audio. Définir et piloter la stratégie d’art technique sous Unreal Engine 5 pour les plateformes PC, console et mobile, en veillant à ce que le contenu soit évolutif tout en maintenant la qualité visuelle et les performances à l’exécution. Collaborer étroitement avec les équipes d’ingénierie afin de développer des extensions moteur, des fonctionnalités de rendu, des systèmes de validation de contenu, des processus d’automatisation, des pipelines de build, des flux de travail d’actifs personnalisés, des outils de profilage et des initiatives d’optimisation des plateformes. Être responsable de la stratégie des pipelines de contenu du projet, depuis les outils DCC jusqu’à Unreal Engine et aux processus de déploiement. Établir des normes pour l’importation des actifs, la validation, l’automatisation, l’intégration CI/CD et les outils destinés aux créateurs. Assurer l’alignement interdisciplinaire entre les équipes Art, Design, Animation, Ingénierie Gameplay, Ingénierie du rendu, Ingénierie des outils et Production. Veiller à ce que les contraintes techniques et les exigences de contenu soient clairement comprises et efficacement mises en œuvre. Fournir un leadership technique pour les pipelines de personnages, les systèmes de rigging, les shaders, les matériaux, les technologies d’animation, les VFX de gameplay, les interactions en temps réel et les processus d’optimisation du contenu. Concevoir et superviser des outils et solutions d’automatisation à l’aide des frameworks d’outillage Unreal Engine, de Python et de scripts DCC afin d’améliorer la productivité, la cohérence et la qualité du contenu. Définir et maintenir les budgets de performance, les méthodologies de profilage, les règles de validation et les standards d’optimisation des plateformes, avec une attention particulière à l’évolutivité mobile, aux contraintes mémoire, à la gestion thermique, à la consommation énergétique et aux coûts de rendu. Établir et maintenir une documentation robuste, des processus d’intégration, des normes et des guides techniques afin de permettre aux équipes d’évoluer efficacement et en toute confiance. Réviser le travail d’art technique sur l’ensemble du projet et fournir une rétroaction claire et exploitable visant à améliorer la qualité, la performance, la maintenabilité et l’évolutivité. Collaborer avec la direction afin de définir et d’exécuter la feuille de route à long terme de l’art technique à mesure que le projet évolue vers une plateforme évolutive. Agir comme point d’escalade pour les défis les plus complexes liés à l’art technique, aux pipelines de contenu, à la performance et aux outils du projet. Se tenir à jour quant aux tendances de l’industrie, aux avancées d’Unreal Engine, aux technologies de création de contenu, aux techniques de rendu, aux pratiques d’outillage, aux cadres d’automatisation et aux évolutions des plateformes mobiles. 8+ years of professional experience in Technical Art, with at least 2+ years leading teams and driving technical direction across multiple disciplines. Experience shipping one or more games as a Technical Artist, ideally across multiple platforms including mobile. Deep expertise in Unreal Engine 5, including Blueprints, Animation Blueprints, Control Rig, Niagara, Material Editor, Unreal tooling frameworks, and content pipelines. Strong understanding of the full technical art stack, including character pipelines, rigging, skinning, animation systems, VFX integration, shaders, materials, rendering, UI, optimization, and content workflows. Experience building production tooling, automation systems, asset validation frameworks, and content pipelines. Strong scripting skills using Python, with experience integrating DCC workflows and Unreal Engine tooling. Experience with MEL, MaxScript, or similar scripting languages is a plus. Strong understanding of profiling, optimization, and performance analysis across PC, console, and mobile platforms. Experience working closely with engineers on engine-level features, platform optimization, content systems, and tooling architecture. Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between art, design, production, and engineering teams. Demonstrated leadership experience building strong teams through clear standards, mentorship, feedback, and trust. Desired Characteristics: Experience leading Technical Art across multiple disciplines including gameplay, characters, animation, VFX, UI, environments, mobile, and pipeline development. Experience building and scaling technical art organizations in AAA or large-scale game productions. Deep familiarity with DCC ecosystems and their integration into Unreal Engine production pipelines. Experience with Unreal Engine systems such as Niagara, Control Rig, Animation Blueprints, Gameplay Ability System, Material Editor, and Blueprint-driven workflows. Experience designing creator-facing tools, automation systems, validation frameworks, and scalable content pipelines. Experience with HLSL, shader development, material optimization, rendering performance analysis, and graphics debugging workflows. Strong understanding of mobile rendering constraints, mobile GPU architectures, memory budgets, thermal limitations, and sustained performance considerations. Experience supporting live-service, UGC, creator-focused, or platform-oriented products. Proven ability to improve team efficiency through tooling, automation, documentation, and workflow design. Strong understanding of game feel, player feedback systems, animation-driven interactions, and the relationship between gameplay and presentation. A passion for empowering artists, improving workflows, and building scalable technical foundations that enable creative teams to do their best work. Plus de 8 ans d’expérience professionnelle en art technique, dont au moins 2 ans à diriger des équipes et à définir l’orientation technique à travers plusieurs disciplines. Expérience de mise en marché d’au moins un jeu vidéo à titre d’Artiste technique, idéalement sur plusieurs plateformes, y compris mobile. Expertise approfondie d’Unreal Engine 5, incluant Blueprints, Animation Blueprints, Control Rig, Niagara, Material Editor, frameworks d’outillage Unreal et pipelines de contenu. Solide compréhension de l’ensemble de la pile technologique liée à l’art technique, notamment les pipelines de personnages, le rigging, le skinning, les systèmes d’animation, l’intégration VFX, les shaders, les matériaux, le rendu, l’UI, l’optimisation et les flux de contenu. Expérience dans la création d’outils de production, de systèmes d’automatisation, de cadres de validation d’actifs et de pipelines de contenu. Excellentes compétences en scripting avec Python, incluant l’intégration de flux de travail DCC et d’outils Unreal Engine. Une expérience avec MEL, MaxScript ou des langages similaires constitue un atout. Solide compréhension du profilage, de l’optimisation et de l’analyse des performances sur PC, consoles et plateformes mobiles. Expérience de collaboration étroite avec les équipes d’ingénierie sur des fonctionnalités moteur, l’optimisation des plateformes, les systèmes de contenu et l’architecture des outils. Excellentes aptitudes en communication et capacité à faire le lien entre les équipes artistiques, de design, de production et d’ingénierie. Expérience démontrée de leadership permettant de bâtir des équipes performantes grâce à des standards clairs, du mentorat, une rétroaction efficace et un climat de confiance. Atouts recherchés Expérience de direction en art technique couvrant plusieurs disciplines, notamment le gameplay, les personnages, l’animation, les VFX, l’UI, les environnements, le développement mobile et les pipelines de production. Expérience dans la création et la croissance d’organisations d’art technique au sein de productions AAA ou de jeux à grande échelle. Connaissance approfondie des écosystèmes DCC et de leur intégration dans les pipelines de production Unreal Engine. Expérience avec des systèmes Unreal Engine tels que Niagara, Control Rig, Animation Blueprints, Gameplay Ability System, Material Editor et les flux de travail basés sur Blueprint. Expérience dans la conception d’outils destinés aux créateurs, de systèmes d’automatisation, de cadres de validation et de pipelines de contenu évolutifs. Expérience avec HLSL, le développement de shaders, l’optimisation des matériaux, l’analyse des performances de rendu et les processus de débogage graphique. Excellente compréhension des contraintes de rendu mobile, des architectures GPU mobiles, des budgets mémoire, des limites thermiques et des considérations liées aux performances soutenues. Expérience avec des produits de type live-service, UGC (contenu généré par les utilisateurs), orientés créateurs ou plateformes. Capacité démontrée à améliorer l’efficacité des équipes grâce aux outils, à l’automatisation, à la documentation et à la conception de processus. Bonne compréhension du « game feel », des systèmes de rétroaction aux joueurs, des interactions pilotées par l’animation ainsi que de la relation entre le gameplay et la présentation. Passion pour l’autonomisation des artistes, l’amélioration des flux de travail et la création de fondations techniques évolutives permettant aux équipes créatives de réaliser leur meilleur travail. As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. 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