3D Tech Artist
Paradox Tectonic seeks a versatile and creative Technical Artist to join our team for a new IP. You will work alongside the Art Director, fellow artists, and engineers to create exciting, memorable, and replayable content.
We're looking for an experienced, self-starting tech wiz with an artistic eye. Unity experience is a strong requirement for this role. You will help elevate the visuals and find ways to improve workflow efficiency, provide feedback, and debugging of complex assets. Our ideal candidate brings a deep passion for making games and solving challenging problems.
Responsibilities
Provide creative and innovative solutions to technical art problems.
Help us make the most beautiful game possible under challenging technical constraints.
Refine our art production pipeline to help execute our artistic and game vision.
Help with the integration of art content into the game engine.
Optimize 3D assets, memory, and game performance to help realize artistic and gameplay intentions.
Communicate and collaborate with other development disciplines.
Required Qualifications
At least 3 years of Unity game development experience with a good working knowledge of Unity editor scripting / tool development.
Ability to work well in a fluid, changing environment as creative challenges evolve.
Strong skills and experience in software development in Unity3D, and C# or C++.
Strong debugging skills with the ability to work in an existing codebase, learn new systems/concepts, and implement them quickly and efficiently.
Knowledge and interest in the following tech-art areas: Animation systems, Environments, Terrain, Scripting, Lighting, PBR Rendering and Post-Effects, Rigging, Physics, and Character IK.
Experience profiling performance and memory within Unity. Understanding of GPU pipeline and experience with GPU performance analysis and optimizations.
Self-motivated, structured, proactive, and detail-oriented.
Strong communication and organizational skills.
Good eye and attention to details.
Experience in the following is a plus
Maya, Blender, ZBrush experience.
Ability to skin meshes to various rigs for video games.
Experience in hard surface or character modeling.
Scope: Full-time and permanent
Can be remote but expected to keep consistent work hours with a team situated in the San Francisco Bay Area.
If you think that this description matches you, we highly encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will interview candidates continuously. If you don't match all the requirements, please demonstrate how your passion, attitude, and interest in Paradox might compensate for this.
At Paradox Interactive we celebrate difference and care deeply about diversity and inclusion. We, therefore, encourage you, no matter who you are, to apply for this job if you think you’d be a great addition to our team.
- Department
- Tectonic Studio
- Role
- Technical Artist
- Locations
- Berkeley, USA
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Berkeley, USA
Working at Paradox
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Continuous personal development
To make and sell fantastic games we focus on continuous professional development of our employees. Education, career development and impact on decision-making are part and parcel of this endeavor.
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Freedom & Responsibility
Your contribution will count and you’ll see direct results of your input in our final products.We provide you with freedom in how to tackle ambitious goals and we strive to work in small autonomous teams where you have an impact on the decisions taken. However, we also expect every employee to be responsible for their work and the decisions they make.
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Explore, bond and be well
Our culture centers around the games we make and the bonds we form between the people who make and play them. In our experience, a healthy dose of nerdiness is often central in this, no matter what form it takes.
We encourage employees and teams to explore their nerdiness and connect with one another within and (if they wish) outside the company - be it in our strong board game and TTRPG community, over painting miniatures, in book circles, over karaoke, at our social gatherings and of course over video games. How far down the rabbit hole you go is up to you, nothing is mandatory.
It goes without saying that you get full access to our Steam catalog and the chance the play games that are still in development.
We strive for a good work-life balance for all employees and prioritize their personal well-being.
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Masters of our fate
We have stable long-term owners with skin in the game, decision making close to the games and the players and are stably self-financed, without debt. That gives us full ownership and control of our development. Our success or failure is up to us.
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Compensation
We offer competitive monthly salary and salary revision once per year with participation in our company wide profit share program.
You will be given 5+1 weeks of paid vacation per year. For international hires, we will provide relocation assistance (Visa application, Initial Home Finding, Settling in Service, and your flight).We offer flexible work hours, an open office environment and we encourage sharing and learning from each other.
It goes without saying that you get full access to our Steam catalog and the chance the play games that are still in development.
Our Culture
We’ve built our culture on three pillars that function as bedrock.
Nerdiness:
We celebrate our nerdiness, and invite others to experience it.
Trust:
We face challenges together by placing trust in each other.
Ownership:
We own up to our decisions, dare to try, and learn from the past.
About Paradox Interactive
Today, Paradox consists of both publishing and internal game development. We have a broad portfolio of games and own the most important brands, including Stellaris, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Prison Architect, Victoria, Age of Wonders and the World of Darkness catalog of brands.
Since 2004, the company has published its games all over the world, initially through physical distribution but primarily in digital channels after 2006. Paradox games are developed primarily for PC and console platforms, but the company also releases games on mobile. The largest markets today include the US, UK, China, Germany, France and Scandinavia. In total, Paradox games have over five million players each month.
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