Technical Artist, AI Solutions

Tencent Overseas It
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
5 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
C++
Encodings
Game Engine
Python
Rapid Prototyping Process
Data Streaming
Systems Integration
Unreal Engine
Software Version Control

Job description

  • Prove new AI based creative workflows: Rapidly prototype AI enabled image/video/audio pipelines, run technical validations, and draft playbooks for creative and production teams.
  • Research, define, improve, and maintain artist pipelines, tools, and workflows.
  • Ability to develop a comprehensive knowledge of the art production pipeline and all engine features, tools and systems associated with the creation of art assets.
  • Own the end-to-end workflows: Specify requirements, data flows, and interfaces across briefing, generation, edit/review, rights/approvals, localization, and QC.
  • Model & tooling mastery: Operationalize precision controls (e.g., LoRA, Control/conditioning, pose/layout, style transfer, in/outpainting, frame interpolation/upscaling) to deliver brand-true high-quality visuals at scale.
  • Production integration: Connect workflows with source control, asset management, project trackers, render/encode farms, and publishing endpoints; define observability (quality gates, telemetry, cost).
  • Develop and evolve engineering and business processes to optimize team efficiency.

Requirements

We are seeking a Sr. Technical Artist with strong technical background in game development and be intimately familiar with the unique challenges and tools of the industry in London, UK., * Customer-oriented, and could work at a very fast pace.

  • A positive, self-motivated, and passionate person.
  • Independent, insistent, and open-minded.
  • A great team player, and both dependable and autonomous., * 8+ years of game industry experience as a tech artist, 2+ years integrating AI into content production.
  • Strong proficiency in C++ or Python, with hands-on experience in tools development.
  • Solid background in game engines such as Unity, Unreal Engine, or proprietary engines, with experience supporting cross-platform pipelines.
  • Demonstrated experience building AI-driven creative pipelines (image/video/audio) and putting them into production for marketing or production teams.
  • Hands-on with visual diffusion workflows, prompt & context systems, precise micro-adjustments (control/conditioning, adapters, fine-tuning/LoRA), and quality gates.
  • Ability to operate in a startup-like setting: requirements discovery, rapid prototyping, iterative delivery with measurable outcomes.
  • Creativity, critical thinking, and excellent ability communicate complex concept to a non-technical audience.

Benefits & conditions

  • Training Provided
  • Regular team and company events
  • Free drinks, fruit or food
  • Subsidized public transport
  • Flexible working
  • Free Gym or Gym Subsidy
  • Private Medical/Dental healthcare
  • Annual Health Check
  • Bonus/Reward Scheme
  • Childcare Vouchers
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Paid Overtime
  • Stock Options
  • Language Classes
  • Game Jams

About the company

Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life for people around the world.

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