Lead Technical Artist

Lead Technical Artist position at Cloud Chamber to shape the technical foundations of artistic vision, lead a technical team, and ensure creative intent is translated into technically sound reality.

Requirements

• Support the Tech Art Director’s technical vision and standards
• Must have experience creating and shipping AAA quality environments using Unreal 5 pipelines
• Establish and enforce technical budgets for all art content
• Help design, build, and maintain the art production pipeline
• Take ownership of the most complex technical art challenges
• Serve as a key communication link between Art, Engineering, and Design
• Mentor and manage the Technical Art team
• Ensure all team members adhere to established technical standards and workflow practices
• Worked a minimum of 8+ years in game development with at least 3+ years in a leadership capacity
• Shipped 1, or preferably more, AAA console or PC titles
• Shipped one AAA game using Unreal Engine 5
• Mentored and managed a Technical Art team
• Obtained your Bachelor’s Degree, or have equivalent work experience
• Gained expert-level working knowledge of industry-standard 3D software and scripting APIs
• Gained proficiency with supporting tools for texture/material creation and high-fidelity sculpting
• Experienced procedural tools like PCG or Houdini to create complex assets, environments, or destruction effects
• Garnered a strong understanding of real-time pipelines, including asset workflows and optimization techniques
• Built a solid foundation in programming concepts to facilitate collaboration with Engineers
• Experienced designing and maintaining robust, automated pipelines for asset export, validation, and integration

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage
• 14 paid holidays per calendar year
• Paid vacation time per calendar year
• Paid sick days per calendar year
• Paid parental and compassionate leave
• Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support
• Family planning support through Maven
• Commuter benefits
• Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses