SkyBox Labs Hiring Senior Technical Artist (UE5) in Burnaby

Role overview

SkyBox Labs is hiring a permanent full-time Senior Technical Artist for its Burnaby, British Columbia studio. The role is part of a newly established UE5 team for a AAA co-development project and focuses on building the technical systems and environment workflows that support large-scale world production. The team works hybrid, with three days a week in the Burnaby studio.

Responsibilities

The role owns end-to-end environment pipelines, workflows, and technical systems, including procedural-content-generation solutions, landscape workflows using LiDAR and Gaea, artist-facing tools and automations, and performance optimization. It also supports content creators through editor tooling and technical problem solving.

Requirements and pay

SkyBox Labs asks for at least eight years of AAA game-development experience and at least one shipped major title, along with deep knowledge of Unreal Engine 5, Houdini, and PCG. Experience with optimization, performance, and editor tooling is required; scripting and material skills in Blueprints, Python, HLSL, or C++ are useful additional strengths. The listed base-salary range is CAD 100,000–155,000.

Location and application

The official posting says the company is currently able to hire candidates who are legally eligible to work in Canada and reside in Canada; it also notes that candidates residing in Canada or willing to relocate may be considered. Applicants should check the current work-location requirements carefully on the official page.

Official vacancy and application: SkyBox Labs — Senior Technical Artist (UE5).

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Information checked on 6 October 2026.

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