Job Functions1. Collaboration between art, design, and engineering2. Designing, building, and maintaining advanced tools, workflows, and content pipelines for mobile and AR production in Unreal Engine 5.3. Proactively identifying risks or inefficiencies and proposing scalable solutions across teams.
Job Requirements1. Lead collaboration between art, design, and engineering to solve complex challenges and ensure a unified technical direction.2. Design, build, and maintain advanced tools, workflows, and content pipelines for mobile and AR production in Unreal Engine 5.3. Own and enforce standards for visual consistency, content optimization, and platformspecific performance tuning.
Skills1. Deep experience with Unreal Engine 5 in mobile and/or AR development contexts.2. Advanced proficiency in scripting (Blueprint, Python, C++) and shader development.3. Strong leadership skills with proven experience coordinating across departments and disciplines.4. Demonstrated ability to architect and scale technical art systems and workflows.1. Excellent communication skills, able to drive consensus and foster collaboration between teams.2. Mentorship and support for junior tech artists through code reviews, training, and guidance on best practices.3. Proactive problemsolving and risk identification.
As a Tech Artist 3
, you act as a key bridge between departments—driving the development of scalable art pipelines, identifying technical risks, and championing optimization across all content. You will lead initiatives, mentor junior tech artists, and help define best practices for cross-platform performance and visual consistency.
Responsibility
- Lead collaboration between art, design, and engineering to solve complex challenges and ensure a unified technical direction.
- Design, build, and maintain advanced tools, workflows, and content pipelines for mobile and AR production in Unreal Engine 5.
- Proactively identify risks or inefficiencies and propose scalable solutions across teams.
- Own and enforce standards for visual consistency, content optimization, and platform-specific performance tuning.
- Mentor and support junior tech artists through code reviews, training, and guidance on best practices.
- Drive documentation, process improvements, and technical innovation across the art pipeline.
Required Qualifications
- Deep experience with Unreal Engine 5 in mobile and/or AR development contexts.
- Advanced proficiency in scripting (Blueprint, Python, C++) and shader development.
- Strong leadership skills with proven experience coordinating across departments and disciplines.
- Demonstrated ability to architect and scale technical art systems and workflows.
- Expert-level understanding of real-time rendering, optimization strategies, and content debugging.
- Excellent communication skills, able to drive consensus and foster collaboration between teams.
$90,000 - $140,000 a yearSalaries offered are based on candidate experience, internal equity, and the level at which they are hired.Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together.
We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits. We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:Mission: ISSDisney Pixar Coco VRBlade Runner 2049: Memory LabThe Lion King - Virtual ProductionElixirApply for this job
Life at Magnopus
Magnopus is an Experience Company forging art, science, and technology to create new experiences across virtual reality, augmented reality, and good ol' fashioned reality reality.
Located in downtown Los Angeles, we are empowered by an Academy Award-winning team of artists, engineers, and "get it done" producers who bring a diverse body of experience and creative solutions to the field. We're working on original and licensed IP for VR experiences that are game engine-driven, footage-driven, or a mix of both. Our technology teams are developing AR platforms and custom VR platforms for clients on Oculus Rift & Go, HTC Vive, Samsung GearVR, Magic Leap and HoloLens using Unity, Unreal, and original software development.
Our unique focus on story and content-driven technology development gives us advance access to some of our partner's over-the-horizon hardware and software developments in light field technology, holographic and translucent displays, HMDs, performance capture, and human computing interfaces.
We're honored to have a diverse team of talented individuals building products and experiences that have a positive impact on people's everyday lives, whether in entertainment, education, industry, or government.
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We’re expanding a team of experienced Inference Artists to generate highquality elements using prompt-based gen AI tools such as Google’s Veo2. | 2. This project is “applied research and development” and requires a unique set of skills to be successful. | 3. We’re in a continuous state of development, discovery, and improvement that benefits from patience, flexibility, creative problemsolving, and an open mind to achieve amazing results. | 4. We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. | 5. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. | 6. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. | 7. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.</s> | Passionate about using cutting-edge AI technology to create high-quality visual imagery and bring new creative possibilities to life | Values characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.</s> | 5. Leadership Works for Employees, Not the Other Way Around</s> | Supports their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits | Fosters a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures.</s> | Passion for automation and Build systems | Interest in learning CI/CD tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub Actions, or similar. | Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git or Perforce). | A passion for games and staying up-to-date with emerging development tools and practices.</s> | 4. 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