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Position Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Artist to serve as a primary point of Unity expertise, and to acts as a bridge between game studio artists and engineers to ensure that the player-facing vision for our games is achieved. A strong familiarity with Unity and C# will be required to manage and improve the content creation pipeline, coach game artists on asset implementation, and optimize the performance of effects-heavy content. Other duties include staying on the cutting edge of Unity’s many features, and the mentoring and guiding of more junior technical artists.

Essential Job Functions:   

• Implement art assets in Unity  

• Identify and solve technical issues related to the art pipeline  

• Mentoring of more junior technical artists on the team 

• Provide artists with technical feedback to ensure the creation of optimized assets  

• Document and evangelize best practices  

• Profiling game performance and applying art optimization techniques  

• Creation of tools to assist in the artistic pipeline  

Qualifications

Education & Experience: 

• Bachelor of Arts in art, animation, computer science, or equivalent experience  

• At least six years’ experience in game development  

• At least four games shipped using Unity  

Required Experience:   

• Unity expertise, including Prefabs, Particle Systems, and Materials  

• Strong problem-solving skills  

• Fluency in C#, with a working knowledge of object-oriented programming  

• Working knowledge of 2D graphic software (Photoshop preferred)  

• An understanding of artistic concepts and pipeline  

• Working knowledge of animation state machines  

• Familiarity with motion graphics & compositing editors (After Effects preferred)  

• Familiarity with 3D animation & rendering applications (3DS Max preferred)  

• Working knowledge of versioning software (Perforce preferred)  

• Experience working with a team under tight deadlines  

• Self-motivated and able to work on multiple projects with minimal direction 

• Excellent organizational skills  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Working knowledge of MS Office, specifically Excel and Outlook  

Bonus XP:   

• Experience leading or mentoring, especially other tech artists 

• Proficient in Photoshop and After Effects