Technical Artist - Performance

Post Date

Jul 25, 2025

Location

Los Angeles,
California

ZIP/Postal Code

90094
US
Oct 01, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Software Engineering

Req #

LAX-798030

Pay Rate

$50 - $63 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Metaverse Technical Art team is looking for a technical artist to join our multidisciplinary team. As a technical artist, you will help build a social User Generated Content (UGC) platform where people can find people, places, and things they care about.

Responsibilities:
- Profiling, Optimizing and troubleshooting runtime performance (CPU/GPU/Memory) on multiple platforms
- Create clear reports on profiling findings
- Prototype, profile and optimize custom shaders
- Optimize content through identifying bottlenecks and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation best practices.
- Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety of technical and artistic tasks, including diagnosing and fixing bugs.
- Create processes, tooling to validate, prototype, and implement new capabilities in partnership with cross functional teams.
- Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads.
- Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

We are a company committed to creating inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, disability, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to Human Resources Request Form. The EEOC "Know Your Rights" Poster is available here.

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Required Skills & Experience

- Demonstrated expertise at understanding inner workings of a real-time game engine (Unity, Unreal, etc)
- Experience training AI models or utilizing AI for content generation
- 3-5 years experience with game/real-time profiling and optimization techniques.
- 3-5 years' experience coding in Typescript, JavaScript, and/or C++
- Experience with real-time scripting
- Experience shipping products with stringent runtime performance constraints, such as complex mobile or 3D applications or games
- Experience communicating/collaborating with multidisciplinary teams including engineers and artists
- Experience in real-time content authoring (characters/environments/VFX/animation/lighting)
- Experience working with version control systems (Git, Perforce, etc.)

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- Deep knowledge of low level real-time graphics pipeline concepts.
- Passionate and informed on emerging technologies.
- Self-motivated, product thinking mindset

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.