About the job

This Technical Artist – Unity role at PIE Recruitment offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge, AI-powered 3D interactive experiences for a fast-moving tech business in Cambridge/Suffolk. The role involves integrating and optimising 3D assets, rigs, and animations in Unity for real-time performance, building shaders, VFX, and lighting setups using Shader Graph and Unity systems, supporting facial animation pipelines including visemes, blend shapes, and lip-sync, as well as creating tools and scripts to streamline workflows for artists and animators. Candidates should have 4+ years of experience as a Technical Artist in Unity, ideally in games, VR/AR, or interactive media, with a strong grasp of real-time asset workflows, lighting, VFX, and optimisation, hands-on experience with Shader Graph, post-processing, and Unity HDRP, and solid understanding of animation pipelines including rigging, blend shapes, and viseme integration. International candidates with excellent English are welcome, and visa sponsorship is available.