Cross-system features (UI, gameplay hooks, progression systems)
Identify long-term technical opportunities and risks, influencing roadmap and team strategy
Mentor other Technical Artists, providing guidance on architecture, debugging, and system design
Develop tools, frameworks, and pipelines that unlock team-wide efficiency and scalability
Profile and optimize experimental systems, ensuring viability within performance constraints
Required Qualifications
7+ years of experience as a Technical Artist in games or real-time engines
Deep expertise in Unreal Engine, including:
Advanced Blueprint architecture and debugging
Strong familiarity with C++ for extending engine/system capabilities
Animation systems, Anim Graphs, and procedural techniques
Proven experience owning complex, ambiguous technical problems from concept through production
Experience building scalable systems/frameworks used by multiple developers or teams
Strong understanding of real-time performance, memory, and optimization strategies
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and mentorship
Experience collaborating deeply across multiple disciplines
Requirements
Experience driving incubation work on shipped or prototype features
Strong background in systems design or gameplay-adjacent architecture
Experience with procedural animation, simulation systems, or physics-driven features
Familiarity with rendering pipelines, shaders (HLSL), or advanced material workflows
Experience building extensible tools and pipelines at scale
Our Perks:
Benefits
Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.
Additional Information
Technical Artists at Riot blend artistic sensibility with deep technical expertise to create performant, expressive, and scalable player-facing content. As a Senior Technical Artist on the VALORANT Premium Content team, you will operate at the frontier of cosmetic innovation driving initiatives that define the future of premium content.
In this role, you will focus on prototyping and architecting next-generation systems that expand what weapon skins and cosmetic features can do. You will work in highly ambiguous spaces, translating creative ambition into technically viable solutions, and building foundational frameworks that scale across teams and future content. You will act as a technical leader and domain expert, shaping direction, mentoring others, and raising the bar for both craft and innovation.
Riot Games · Los Angeles, CA