Senior Technical Artist, AI Solutions
Description
Tencent Overseas IT has the mission to empower Tencent’s rapid global growth with future ready, global IT platforms, applications and services. We are chartered to lead the Overseas IT strategy, architecture, roadmap and execution. Satisfying our internal/external customers and becoming a world class global IT team are our top aspirations.
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.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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.
