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Software Developer, Pipeline Integration
Autodesk
Toronto, ON · Montreal, QC · Vancouver, BC · AMER - Canada - Ontario - Toronto - University Ave
Full-time
Integrate and optimize APIs for Maya and other Digital Content Creation (DCC) tools
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Artiste technique sénior·e en intelligence artificielle ‒ Frostbite/Senior UI Technical Artist - Frostbite
Frostbite
Montreal, QC
Full-time
As a UI Technical Artist, you will report to Frostbite's Technical Art Manager, and you'll help make our development process more creator-centric by serving as a link between engineers and…
Added 24 days ago
Senior Technical Artist (DCC/Tools) - UFC
EA SPORTS
Vancouver, BC
Full-time
As a Senior Technical Artist (TA), you will lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge pipelines, workflows, and technology innovations used by UFC content creators. As a…
Added 23 days ago
Artiste d'éclairage expert.e senior - Senior Expert Lighting Artist – Beenox
Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Montreal, QC · Quebec, QC
Full-time
Founded in Quebec City and continuing its growth with a team based in Montreal, Beenox has over 25 years of expertise in the game development. As an Activision studio we are leaders in…
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Artiste d'éclairage expert.e senior - Senior Expert Lighting Artist – Beenox
Activision
Montreal, QC · Quebec, QC
Other
Founded in Quebec City and continuing its growth with a team based in Montreal, Beenox has over 25 years of expertise in the game development. As an Activision studio we are leaders in…
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Artiste d'éclairage expert.e senior - Senior Expert Lighting Artist – Beenox
Beenox
Montreal, QC · Quebec, QC
Other
Founded in Quebec City and continuing its growth with a team based in Montreal, Beenox has over 25 years of expertise in the game development. As an Activision studio we are leaders in…
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Groom Supervisor, CG (Feature)
WildBrain Studios
Vancouver, BC
Full-time
…the architect of this discipline. They enjoy collaborating and actively participating in pipeline development, training and building out this function with the ultimate goal of producing…
Added 25 days ago
Artiste de texture senior | Senior Texture Artist
Side
Remote, Canada
Contract · Remote
We're looking for a talented Senior Texture Artist with a passion for creating world-class materials and surfaces that elevate the visual quality of games. In this role, you'll be…
Added 25 days ago
Artiste de texture senior | Senior Texture Artist
Side
Remote, Canada
Contract · Remote
We're looking for a talented Senior Texture Artist with a passion for creating world-class materials and surfaces that elevate the visual quality of games. In this role, you'll be…
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Senior Technical Artist - EA SPORTS™ Technology
EA SPORTS
Vancouver, BC
Full-time
We are looking for a Senior Technical Artist to bridge the gap between creative vision and technical execution. In this role, you will act as a force multiplier for art teams across our…
Added 27 days ago
Senior Character Artist (Rainbow Six Siege)
Ubisoft
Montreal, QC
Full-time
As a Senior Character Artist at Ubisoft Montreal on Rainbow Six Siege, you will contribute to the creation of high-quality customization content for existing operators. You’ll play a key…
Added 27 days ago
Senior Level Artist
Ubisoft
Montreal, QC
Full-time
As a Senior Level Artist at Ubisoft Montreal, you will contribute to the creation of immersive environments that support gameplay, mission content, and environmental storytelling within an…
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Artiste technique principal.e / Principal Technical Artist
Electronic Arts (EA)
Montreal, QC
Full-time
Joining our Research & Engineering team as a Principal Technical Artist, you will operate at the crossroads of art and technology. In this role, you will work closely with Scientists,…
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Senior Lighting Artist | Artiste senior en éclairage - GameSim - Talent Pipeline
Keywords Studios
Canada
Full-time
We are seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting and help guide lighting execution across GameSim projects.
Added 2 months ago
Senior UI Technical Artist - Frostbite
Frostbite
Vancouver, BC
Full-time
As a UI Technical Artist, you will report to Frostbite's Technical Art Manager, and you'll help make our development process more creator-centric by serving as a link between engineers and…
Added 2 months ago
Senior Lighting Artist - GameSim - Talent Pipeline
Keywords Studios
Canada
Full-time
We are seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting and help guide lighting execution across GameSim projects.
Added 4 months ago
Senior Technical Artist (UE5)
SkyBox Labs
Burnaby, BC
Full-time
…our newest co-development AAA project, we’re looking for a Senior Technical Artist who is part scientist, part visionary, and 100% problem solver to help us define how our game’s…
Added 3 months ago
Senior Technical Artist - EA SPORTS FC
EA SPORTS
Vancouver, British Columbia
Full-time
The Senior Technical Artist (Sr. TA) develops pipelines, workflows, and technological innovations used by content creators from the FC team. Reporting to our Director of Technical Art, they…
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Principal Environment Artist - GameSim - Pipeline
Keywords Studios
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
This is a high level senior individual-contributor position for an experienced artist who can operate at both the strategic and hands-on levels. You will create benchmark-quality work,…
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Senior Lighting Artist | Artiste senior en éclairage - GameSim - Talent Pipeline
Keywords Studios
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
We are seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting and help guide lighting execution across GameSim projects.
Added 9 days ago
Senior VFX Artist
Respawn Entertainment
Vancouver, BC
Full-time
Respawn Entertainment is seeking a Senior VFX Artist to help lead the creation of high-impact real-time effects for Apex Legends. In this role, you will create and implement VFX that bring…
Added 10 days ago
Senior Material and Texture Artist
Article
Vancouver, BC
$120,000 to $140,000 CAD / year
Full-time
…challenging, meaningful problems. This is where you come in, as a Senior Material and Texture Artist, you'll create accurate, photorealistic digital textures, materials and shaders that…
Added 12 days ago
Senior Technical Artist
Epic Games
Montreal, Quebec
Epic is looking for a Technical Artist with a strong focus on material creation to join the Fortnite team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for building visually rich, performant…
Added 4 months ago
Principal Technical Artist
Parallel Domain
Vancouver, British Columbia
Full-time
We're hiring a Principal Technical Artist to bring the next generation of these workflows into production at Parallel Domain. This is a senior individual contributor role: you'll work…
Added 11 days ago
Artiste de niveau senior / Senior Level Artist
Highdive
Toronto, ON
…set in historical China, featuring a realistic visual style and authentic traditional combat gameplay. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, this project aims to deliver exceptional gaming…

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Parallel Domain

Principal Technical Artist

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Job type: Full-time
Experience: Experience. 8+ years as a technical artist or in a closely adjacent role, with at least one shipped product on a real-time, physically based rendering pipeline.
Posting language: English
Posted: Apr 28, 2026

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About the Role

Before an autonomous vehicle navigates a busy intersection, before a robot learns to pick and place in a warehouse, before any Physical AI system is trusted in the real world, it has to prove itself in ours. Parallel Domain builds the platform that validates the next generation of autonomous systems in high-fidelity virtual environments.

Our content and rendering pipeline is how that platform earns its credibility with customers. The virtual environments we build have to hold up under physical, geometric, and sensor-level scrutiny - they are the testbeds against which our customers' autonomous systems are validated. Building environments at that level of fidelity and scale demands techniques that go beyond a typical AAA game pipeline. Gaussian splat scene reconstruction, neural rendering, AI-assisted content workflows, and modern procedural systems are reshaping what a tech artist's day looks like.

We're hiring a Principal Technical Artist to bring the next generation of these workflows into production at Parallel Domain. This is a senior individual contributor role: you'll work alongside our rendering, simulation, and content engineers on open-ended content and pipeline problems. You'll move fluently between Unreal Engine, Houdini, Python, shader code, and modern AI tooling, and your judgment will shape how our team builds the environments that train and validate autonomous systems.

\nResponsibilities

Own the technical content stack. End to end: asset pipelines, procedural tooling, material systems, performance budgets, and content validation that turn an artist's intent into a production-ready scene.
Build and ship tools. Deliver tooling in Unreal Engine and Houdini that makes the content team measurably faster. We care less about the elegance of the tool and more about whether artists are using it next quarter to ship work they couldn't ship before.
Drive AI-augmented workflows. Bring modern techniques into content creation: gaussian splat scene reconstruction, neural texture synthesis, ML-assisted asset generation, and the next wave of techniques as they emerge. Hold an opinionated view on where these tools belong in a production pipeline and where they don't.
Optimize real-time performance. Profile and optimize across GPU and CPU in Unreal Engine, supporting both interactive use and large-scale batch simulation. Identify bottlenecks, codify the fixes as patterns, and make sure the team isn't relearning the same lessons every six months.
Work across disciplines. Operate as connective tissue across content, rendering, simulation, ML, and product. Translate between disciplines, broker tradeoffs between content fidelity and runtime performance, and make sure the systems we build hang together.
Set the craft bar. We're not asking you to manage people, but we expect you to lead by example on the craft side. Your work should make the people around you better at theirs.
Move quickly. Ship into production early and often. Many of the problems you'll work on don't have a known answer - your job is to scope the unknown, prototype something that works, and harden it from there.
Use AI tooling actively. LLM-assisted coding, scripting, and asset generation can meaningfully accelerate the work when applied well. We expect fluency here and active contribution to the team's practice.

Required Qualifications

Experience. 8+ years as a technical artist or in a closely adjacent role, with at least one shipped product on a real-time, physically based rendering pipeline.
Unreal Engine 5 expertise. Expert-level proficiency including materials, Blueprints, performance profiling, the asset pipeline, and the engine's deeper rendering features. You can debug a frame budget, fix a broken shader, and ship a Blueprint utility in the same afternoon.
Programming fluency. Productive across some combination of Python, C++, HLSL, VEX, and shell. You reach for code rather than manual process whenever possible.
Production speed. Demonstrated ability to take open-ended content or workflow problems, scope them yourself, and ship working systems the team adopts - without extensive hand-holding.
AI workflow fluency. Working command of LLM-based coding tools, generative content tooling (e.g., diffusion models, ComfyUI), and the broader category of AI tools reshaping technical art. You stay on top of where these tools are heading and bring that thinking into the team's practice.
Communication. Equally comfortable talking shaders with rendering engineers, performance with simulation engineers, and tradeoffs with non-technical product partners.
Generalist disposition. Able to move pragmatically across content creation, tooling, rendering, performance, and pipeline. We're not looking for someone narrowly specialized in one corner of technical art.

Preferred Qualifications

Neural scene reconstruction. Hands-on experience with gaussian splatting, NeRFs, or similar techniques in a production or near-production setting.
Procedural content generation. Experience in Houdini or equivalent (Maya, Blender, 3DS Max, Unreal PCG), including authoring HDAs and integrating them into a real-time pipeline.
Sensor simulation. Familiarity with RGB cameras, LiDAR, radar, and the visual artifacts that matter to autonomous-system perception models.
Distributed/cloud pipelines. Experience with distributed rendering or cloud-based content pipelines.
Computational background. Mathematics, physics, or computational graphics that lets you reason from first principles when a problem demands it.

What Success Looks Like

In your first six months, you'll have:

Integrated into the production pipeline and shipped meaningful content using our in-house tools.
Delivered tooling in Houdini or Unreal Engine that improves content team velocity.
Built strong working relationships with engineering, simulation, rendering, and DevOps stakeholders.
Influenced the technical roadmap with at least one concrete bet that ships customer value.

What Makes a Great Candidate

You're a generalist who's excellent at technical art, equally at home in rendering, tooling, content, and performance. You hold strong opinions about the craft but treat your tools as instruments, not identity. You're a builder, not a planner: you scope, prototype, ship, and iterate. You're paying close attention to how AI tooling is changing technical art and you want to be hands-on with that change.

Base salary range of CAD $145,000–$175,000, depending on skills, qualifications, and experience, plus equity, full health/dental/vision coverage, learning stipend, and generous vacation. This role is based remotely or hybrid in the Pacific Northwest (Vancouver, BC or Seattle, WA).

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Responsibilities

The Principal Technical Artist will own the technical content stack, including asset pipelines, procedural tooling, and material systems. They will drive AI-augmented workflows and optimize real-time performance across GPU and CPU in Unreal Engine.

Requirements

Candidates must have 8+ years of experience in technical art with expertise in Unreal Engine 5 and a physically based rendering pipeline. Proficiency in programming languages like Python, C++, or HLSL and experience with AI-based content tools are required.

Skills

Unreal Engine 5
Houdini
Python
C++
HLSL
VEX
Gaussian splatting
Neural rendering
Physically based rendering
Performance profiling
Shader development
AI-assisted content workflows
Procedural systems
Technical art
Sensor simulation
Machine learning

Benefits

Equity
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Learning stipend
Generous vacation

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Keywords

Technical Artist
Unreal Engine 5
Houdini
Python
C++
HLSL
VEX
Gaussian Splatting
NeRF
Neural Rendering
Physically Based Rendering
Procedural Content Generation
AI-assisted workflows
Machine Learning
Sensor Simulation
LiDAR
Radar
Performance Profiling
Asset Pipeline
Blueprints
Shader Development
Autonomous Systems
Physical AI
Cloud Pipelines
Distributed Rendering
Generative AI
ComfyUI
Diffusion Models
Computational Graphics
Simulation

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