Senior AI Technical Artist - Creative Automation

About the role

Tamatem is looking for a Senior Technical Artist focused on AI and creative automation. The role sits at the intersection of art, engineering, AI and production, designing and shipping AI-powered tools, agents, automation and production workflows used across its mobile games. Candidates work closely with artists, designers, animators, developers and other technical partners to turn high-impact ideas into dependable production systems.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy and maintain AI agents, creative tools, scripts, applications and automated workflows.
• Work with artists, designers, animators and developers to identify bottlenecks and rethink how work gets done.
• Build end-to-end pipelines for generating, editing, evaluating, processing, integrating and delivering creative assets across game art, marketing, animation, video and audio.
• Integrate commercial AI APIs, open-source models, creative apps, game tools and internal systems into reliable workflows.
• Apply artistic judgment so outputs meet standards for composition, colour, lighting, style, character identity and storytelling.
• Develop internal applications and interfaces so non-technical team members can use AI and automation tools effectively.
• Evaluate models and tools against quality, controllability, speed, cost, licensing, scalability and reliability.
• Maintain production systems with authentication, access control, logging, monitoring, error handling and operational visibility.
• Follow responsible AI practices, including handling of proprietary data, model and asset licensing, access permissions and human review.
• Document systems, share knowledge, mentor team members and measure impact through time saved, faster delivery, improved quality and team adoption.

Required profile

• Typically 5+ years of relevant experience in technical art, creative technology, production tooling or software development for creative teams.
• Recent experience applying AI and automation to creative or production workflows.
• Track record of moving ambiguous problems from exploration through prototype, deployment, adoption and support.
• Experience building systems used by teams, not just personal tools or experiments.
• Strong artistic judgment and communication skills across creative, technical and non-technical teams.

Required skills

• Artistic: professional experience in art, graphic design, animation, motion graphics, VFX, technical art or game art; Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Blender, Maya or equivalent.
• Programming: Python and JavaScript (including Node.js); API, MCP and CLI integration; Git, GitHub and open-source repositories.
• AI: proven experience with AI agents, agentic systems and generative image, video and audio models (e.g. GPT Image 2.5, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3, Nano Banana Pro, ElevenLabs); prompt engineering; familiarity with ComfyUI or similar node-based workflows.
• Nice to have: plugin development, Unity scripting, fine-tuning generative models, GPU workloads, cloud infrastructure and mobile-game production experience.

Candidates apply with a CV, a portfolio and two or three relevant projects showing the problem solved, what was built and the production impact.