Technical Artist
Red Storm Entertainment is seeking a highly skilled and seasoned Technical Artist to join The Division team. The ideal candidate has a diverse art and tech background, with a passion for assisting the team in realizing the engine’s potential.
Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, maintain and document the art creation pipeline
• Seek out problems in exiting pipelines and propose potential solutions
• Create art content to showcase tools or shaders
• Assist the team in researching and developing game features
• Work with artists to identify and solve technical issues with existing tools
• Track performance and memory usage of the game
• Provide artists with technical feedback to ensure the creation of optimized content
• Be up to date on the latest technology
• Collaborate in defining long term technology roadmaps
Qualifications/Requirements:
• 3+ years game development experience and 1+ shipped AAA title
• Fluent in at least one major 3D software (Max, Maya, Modo)
• Experience with scripting languages such as Maxscript, Python, Javascript
• Fluent working with C# or C++
• Shader creation with HLSL/GLSL
• Deep understanding of games engines
• Experience debugging art for game engines
• Ability to adapt to changing workflows and tools
• Must be an effective communicator, both verbally and written
• Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and the ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment
• Ability to anticipate, prioritize, and organize work to meet objectives
• Passion and enthusiasm for video games
• Ability to travel abroad for work
Preferred:
• Experience in other fields of computer graphics
• Fluency in other visual fx packages such as Houdini, Nuke, Mari, etc
• Understanding of physically based rendering and linear gamma pipelines
• Experience with architecting large extensible, maintainable software applications
• Experience working with more than one game engine
• Xbox or PS3 optimization and debugging experience
Benefits:
• Onsite gym and Mind, Body, Spirit reimbursement program for activities that help you be a better version of yourself
• Food & Fun: Monday breakfast, Thursday meeting munchies & drinks, Surprise Snacks, Launch Parties, Monthly Years of Service Celebrations, Family Picnics, Sporting Events, Holiday Parties, the list goes on…
• Superior health, dental, vision packages with a substantial employer contribution for a healthy you, healthy family, and a healthy wallet.
• 401k match for that day you retire to your dream island…
• Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave for the day your family grows…
• Generous Vacation, Holiday and Sick time for those days you need to be away…
• Employee purchase program for Ubisoft titles for those days you want to play…
• Amazing coworkers, visionary leadership, and a work hard, play hard attitude that will make you want to stay…
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• Highly rated public school systems. Plus, 3 major universities.
• Beach to the East, Mountains to the West and Green spaces in between. Plenty of parks, paths & trails are intertwined in the cities. We even have a trail behind our studio!
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