CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Senior Technical Artist with a focus on Characters Lookdev to join our team in Warsaw to work on The Witcher 4. You鈥檒l bring advanced skills鈥攂oth artistic and technical鈥攁long with attention to detail and a passion for crafting expressive, high-quality characters that meet our ambitious visual and performance goals. This role offers the chance to collaborate closely with developers across disciplines to push what's possible in real-time character creation.
Daily Responsibilities
- Create and maintain key character shaders, encompassing both custom shader code and work within the Unreal Engine Material Editor, with a strong focus on optimization.
- Utilize C++ and deep Unreal Engine experience to build robust tools and support technical pipelines.
- Apply strong rendering knowledge to ensure visual fidelity and conduct detailed performance / memory profiling to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
- Fine tune materials and shaders to behave correctly under different lighting conditions. Discuss, collaborate and feedback with the lighting team and other technical artists.
- Build tools and workflows to empower content creators, leveraging both Blueprints and C++ integration.
- Identify and resolve pipeline challenges, support asset optimization, and ensure smooth delivery across all target platforms.
- Explore and implement new Unreal Engine features, collaborating closely with engineers and Epic Games to expand what's possible in real-time content creation.
- Mentor teammates and help foster a supportive, collaborative tech art culture where curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and experimentation are encouraged.