Warner Bros. Discovery is hiring an Advanced Technical Artist to join the team building a new online multiplayer RPG. You will specialize in Environment Art, working closely with engineering, art, and design leadership to establish the technical foundations and content pipelines.
What You'll Do
- Develop, maintain, and support the environment art content creation pipelines, including foliage, materials, and world-building workflows.
- Collaborate with engineering and art leadership to set and enforce technical art standards, performance budgets, and optimization best practices for a large-scale online world.
- Create complex environment shaders (e.g., terrain, foliage, water), materials, and tools within Unreal Engine to empower artists and designers.
- Drive innovation in art workflows and procedural content generation (PCG) to build and maintain our world at scale.
- Support a wide range of environment technical art needs, including procedural placement, large-scale lighting, and streaming optimization.
- Mentor other artists and technical artists, providing technical guidance, documentation, and feedback.
- Perform peer reviews and champion a high standard of technical art excellence.
- Troubleshoot and solve complex art production issues, balancing performance and visual quality.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of professional technical art experience, working on cross-functional teams.
- Experience on at least one successfully-published large-scale multiplayer online game title or equivalent.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (Art, Computer Science) or equivalent work experience.
- Expert-level proficiency with the Unreal Engine (Blueprints, Material Editor, Foliage systems, PCG, and core systems).
- Deep experience in environment-focused technical art (e.g., shader development, tools/pipeline, procedural systems, performance, lighting).
- Experience building pipelines and tools to support the building of large worlds.
- Deep experience with 3D art software such as Maya, Houdini, etc.
- Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
Nice to Have
- A passion for online multiplayer RPGs.
- Experience with live-service games.
- Exceptional understanding of all game development disciplines and their inputs into the content pipeline.
Technical Stack
- Unreal Engine
- Blueprints
- Material Editor
- Foliage systems
- PCG (Procedural Content Generation)
- Maya
- Houdini
Team & Environment
You will work closely with project engineering, art, and design leadership.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $151,200.00 - $280,800.00 per year
- Health insurance coverage
- Employee wellness program
- Life and disability insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
- Annual bonuses
- Short- and long-term incentives
- Program-specific awards
Work Mode
This is an onsite position located in Salt Lake City, UT.
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
