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Keywords Studios

Senior Technical Artist

Remote

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Drive the creative vision of games and optimize production pipelines while collaborating with art and programming teams to enhance development efficiency.

Senior level. Fully remote in the UK available. 12-month fixed term contract.

As a Senior Technical Artist you will play a critical role in driving the look of our games, playing an important role in developing visual features and shaping the art production pipelines we use in development.

You will create tools and processes to help streamline our artists’ daily workflows and assist the wider team in delivering assets and features on time and within technical budgets.

  • Team up with the Art and Code Leads to bring the artistic vision to life, and make sure it meets all project requirements.
  • As someone with experience, it's crucial to identify and solve problems before they impact the development team. Being proactive is a key part of this role.
  • We're always looking for ways to improve, so you will help implement new techniques that can make our art pipeline more efficient.
  • Ensure our content looks amazing across all platforms, via art optimisation.
  • You will be the bridge between art and programming teams, so you will collaborate effectively with the team and keep things running smoothly.
  • Create and test any new tools before they go live.
  • Sharing knowledge of best practices within the team.
  • Communication is key, so you'll make sure we're regularly keeping the art team in the loop on any technical constraints and the reasons behind them.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience working with proprietary engines preferred.
  • Good knowledge of CG fundamentals (modelling, texturing, shading, lighting etc) within Maya, Max, Blender or similar.
  • Ability to debug and optimise complex assets and implement efficient rendering and VFX techniques.
  • Shader programming knowledge and HLSL/GLSL experience.
  • Ideally coding exposure in C++ (to edit things that have a layer of modifications).
  • Procedural generation experience.
  • Experience developing Blender plugins and pipelines beneficial.

Role Information: EN

Studio: Wushu

Location: Europe, United Kingdom, Liverpool

Area of Work: Game Development

Service: Create

Employment Type: Full Time, Contract

Working Pattern: Remote

Benefits

  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays (pro rata)
  • Christmas shutdown
  • Flexible working hours
  • x 4 Half-day Fridays (during the summer months)
  • A day off on your birthday
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Comprehensive Medical Insurance
  • Weekly Yoga Class
  • Anti-Crunch ethos
  • Referral Bonus Scheme
  • Bike2Work Scheme
  • Social Events
  • Charity Events
  • Branded merchandise

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible working hours
  • Health Insurance: Comprehensive Medical Insurance
  • Other Benefit: Branded merchandise
  • Paid Time Off: A day off on your birthday
Keywords Studios

COMPANY PROFILEEstablished in 1998 and floated on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM in 2013, Keywords(KWS) is the world’s leading provider of technical services to the fast growing, global video games market. Our 5,000 employees in 50+ Studios in 21 countries provide graphic art asset production, game development, audio, testing, localization and customer support services to most of the leading video game developers and publishers. We have a proven track record of organic and acquisition led growth and have successfully acquired and integrated 39 acquisitions since 2014. WHY WORK AT KEYWORDS STUDIOS? People that work at Keywords are passionate, talented, committed and resourceful. As a business we thrive on diversity, celebrate uniqueness and work as teams whether we are physically together in one of our 43 global studios or working together virtually. We empower people to perform to the best of their ability with our “can do” attitude. We appreciate and embrace flexibility. We learn at every opportunity to grow ourselves through experience, training and tackling new challenges. This is what makes us Keywordians.https://www.keywordsstudios.com/

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