Rendering Technical Artist II - League of Legends (Contract)

Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, to critical and player acclaim. Players form the foundation of our community, and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.

We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.

That’s where you come in.

As a Rendering Technical Artist (Contract) on the Singapore League of Legends PC Team, you’ll help bring the world of Runeterra and beyond to life through materials, lighting, and real-time rendering. League’s visual targets are built on a modern real-time, PBR-based rendering pipeline with stylized, hand-painted treatments, and you’ll author, extend, and maintain the shaders and materials that realize them across champions, skins, and related content.

Working closely with artists, designers, engineers, and external partners, you’ll act as a bridge between art and engineering—translating visual and art-direction goals into robust, performant solutions that behave consistently across around-game and in-game environments. As an experienced technical artist, you’ll also diagnose rendering issues early, reduce rework, and help raise the craft bar for how shaders and materials are authored across internal and external teams.

Reporting to the Technical Art Manager, you will ensure that assets meet technical performance standards and artistic direction requirements. In collaboration with Art, Design, Engineering, and external partners, you will contribute to production support and workflow improvements.

Please note that Riot Games does not offer relocation packages for this position. You need to be able to work legally in Singapore, without Riot Games’ sponsorship, to be considered.

• Author, extend, and maintain real-time shaders and materials for League of Legends within a PBR-based rendering workflow, including reusable shader functions and shared material systems that scale across champions and skins.

• Apply strong PBR fundamentals across albedo, normal, roughness, metallic, ambient occlusion, emissive, lighting, and reflection-probe inputs, ensuring shader features account for the full material response rather than the diffuse channel in isolation.

• Collaborate directly with Art and Design to understand desired visual behaviors and art direction, and translate them into clear, achievable, and performant rendering solutions.

• Provide hands-on technical support to internal and external vendor artists, helping them author, integrate, and troubleshoot materials and shaders for Epic and Legendary skins.

• Validate assets across neutral lighting, around-game, and in-game environments and applicable quality levels, diagnosing issues involving lighting, shadows, material response, shader parameters, and texture inputs.

• Collaborate with engineering to manage in-game memory budgets, profile shader and rendering cost, and optimize game performance using tools such as RenderDoc or equivalent GPU-capture tools.

• Integrate visual assets from external vendors into the game engine using Perforce, working closely with the Art Director and Technical Art Manager to maintain quality and consistency.

• Create and maintain clear technical documentation—shader and material workflows, authoring standards, and best practices—and develop custom tools and scripts so artists can work more