Studio: Bonfire Studios
Job Opening: Senior Technical Artist
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Your main focus will be defining and streamlining art workflows in Maya and in Unity.
- You will help develop and maintain tooling in Maya, with a high degree of autonomy around the pipelines and processes from DCC to in-game.
- You will proactively identify ways to support and empower artists through tooling, and develop short and long term strategies in regards to scale and automation.
- You will be responsible for the productivity of artists and drive improvements to creating assets at scale.
- You’ll collaborate closely with tech art, art, and engineering to iterate on asset creation and management.
- You will help create Unity tools and technology that help artists realize their vision.
- You will be working with bleeding-edge Unity technology, both as a user and to help guide future development.
- You will partner with our graphics engineers to help bring our art vision to life.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Have 5+ years of experience as a technical artist for games.
- Are open, humble, service-oriented, and excited about learning and contributing in multiple areas of the studio. Your curiosity propels you to jump in and dive deep into new problems.
- Collaborate well with developers of all disciplines.
- Have experience with Maya, Python, and Qt.
- Have experience proactively developing and evolving pipelines and tools.
- May have Unity experience, but if not, you are excited to learn.
- May have experience with real-time rendering in terms of writing shaders and monitoring graphics performance.
- May have experience working on a live game and supporting live content pipelines.
- Believe, as we do, that iteration is critical to great games and tools make the difference.
- Believe, as we do, that great games are the product of great teams that put their people first.
- Thrive on collaboration and are excited about jumping into a non-hierarchical, peer-supported, and self-directed environment.
- Want to have a large impact while collaborating with other talented developers in a tight knit AAA studio, rolling up your sleeves and using your passions and interests to shape your role at the company.
- Are passionate about creating great experiences for players, supporting the work of other developers through developing tools and problem solving, and collaborating across disciplines to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
