Technical Artist (Unity / VR)

Location: UK- Remote

Duration : Until 31/12/2026

Pay Rate: £36/hour

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Artist to join a collaborative creative and engineering team working on immersive VR experiences.

This role focuses on combining artistic creativity with technical expertise to deliver high-quality, performant visuals in real-time 3D environments.

You will play a key role in shaping visual effects, shaders, and rendering performance to ensure an optimal player experience across VR platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and optimise environments, VFX workflows, tools, and shaders
• Create high-quality visual effects for gameplay and UI
• Design and implement efficient rendering solutions for VR performance
• Work with custom HLSL shaders and ensure clean, optimised implementation
• Identify and utilise appropriate Unity and external tools for production needs
• Troubleshoot and resolve visual, technical, and performance issues
• Collaborate with artists and engineers to improve asset pipelines and workflows
• Contribute to procedural asset creation including textures, meshes, and sprite sheets

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience using Unity
• 2+ years’ experience in a Technical Artist role
• Strong experience with Unity toolset including:
• Animation systems
• Timeline
• Particle Systems / VFX Graph
• Prefabs and nested prefabs
• Material Property Blocks
• Experience with procedural DCC workflows (e.g. baking data into textures/meshes)
• Strong understanding of Forward and Built-in rendering pipelines
• Experience optimising for mobile and/or VR platforms
• Proven experience writing or working with custom HLSL shaders

Key Skills:

• Advanced 3D/2D asset creation experience
• Deep knowledge of real-time rendering pipelines
• Strong VR or mobile performance optimisation expertise
• 3D and 2D asset creation (textures, meshes, sprite sheets)
• Shader development and optimisation
• Real-time rendering and performance tuning
• Visual effects design for interactive experiences
• Strong Unity technical artistry skills

Nice to Have

• Experience working in fast-paced creative or game development environments
• Strong portfolio demonstrating real-time VFX or shader work
• Experience collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams

About US Tech Solutions:

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Recruiter Details:

Name: Aman Jha

Email: [email protected]

Internal Id: 26-00100