# Technical Artist | Artiste Technique - VOLTA

**Company**: Keywords Studios
**Location**: Montreal, Quebec
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: $60,000-80,000 CAD
**Category**: Game Development
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64141679

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## Description

VOLTA is a premier creative studio dedicated to creating high-end 2D and 3D visuals for many of the world's leading entertainment companies, spanning the realms of video games, movies, and toys.

We are seeking a talented Technical Artist to join our team in Quebec. As a Technical Artist, you will provide technical support to the art team with tools and game engines, integrate character and prop assets in game engines and/or proprietary tools, and work closely with Project Managers and IT team on collaboration and version control software.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide technical support to the art team with tools and game engines

- Integrate character and prop assets in game engines and/or proprietary tools

- Work closely with Project Managers and IT team on collaboration and version control software such as Perforce

- Review 3D assets for their technical compatibility and compliancy to all the guidelines

- Coordinating with team members from different time-zones

- Maintain, Integrate and improve technical pipeline for asset creation

- Create technical documentation and training for artists on the production pipeline

- Creating 3D Props/environment assets as per art direction

- Create technically compliant assets

- Creating tileable and unique textures using Substance Painter / Designer

- Integration of Substance Designer materials into Unreal

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience as a Technical Artist, with a focus on prop creation, texturing and integration

- Solid understanding of Unreal Engine and Unity

- Strong expertise in Unreal Engine 5, including hands-on use of systems such as Lumen, Nanite, and Blueprint scripting

- At least one shipped AAA title

- Proficiency in industry-standard art tools such as Maya, Substance Painter, Substance Designer and Zbrush

- Proven ability to build, maintain, and optimize tools and workflows in Autodesk Maya (Python and/or MEL)

- Solid experience working with procedural and material pipelines using Houdini and/or Substance 3D Designer

- Strong understanding of real-time constraints and optimization (performance, memory, scalability) in environment production

- Demonstrated ability to support and collaborate with art teams, translating artistic goals into efficient technical solutions

- Environment-focused experience (materials, shaders, world-building workflows, asset integration)

- Quality-first mindset with a strong artistic eye for realistic visuals

- Solid understanding of character rigging and skinning

- Strong problem-solving skills to address technical challenges efficiently

- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment

- Strong art background and passion for hand-painted texture is a big plus

- Basic knowledge of programming or scripting for shader and/or tool creation is a big plus

Benefits:

- Paid vacations: 3 floating weeks + 1 week during holidays (studio closure)

- 8 statutory holidays

- Full insurance coverage

- 5 paid sick days

- Social club

- Employer's contribution to RRSP (retirement plan) after one year in Canada

## Skills

### Required
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- Maya
- Substance Painter
- Substance Designer
- Zbrush
- Houdini
- Python
- MEL
- Blueprint scripting

### Nice to have
- programming
- scripting
- shader creation
- tool creation

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