Experienced 3D Tech Artist [Unity]
Paradox Tectonic seeks a versatile and creative Technical Artist to join the Life by You team. You will work alongside the Art Director, fellow artists, and engineers to help us bring our world and humans to life.
We're looking for an experienced, self-starting tech wiz with a good artistic eye. You will help elevate the visuals and find ways to improve workflow efficiency, provide feedback, and debugging of complex assets. Our ideal candidate brings with them 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 tough technical constraints.
Work to improve core systems such as Animation, Characters, UI and Environment.
Refine our art production pipeline to help execute our artistic and game vision.
Help with integration of assets 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 professional 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 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: Shading, Scripting, Lighting, PBR Rendering and Post-Effects, Rigging, Physics, Character IK and UI/UX
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 anywhere with in the United States but expected to keep consistent work hours with a team situated in the Bay Area.
Salary Range: 120,000-160,000 USD
Salary range is dependent on experience level, additional skills and location. Candidates must already be eligible to work in the United States.
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
Paradox’s workplace culture has been shaped by our players, our knowledge of what they want and expect from us, and the lessons we’ve learned in over two decades of operation.
In our work, we place great emphasis on the value we create for our players, the trust we place in one another, our goal of making each other better, and on proactively solving the tasks and problems we face within an industry and a company that keep on changing.
We focus less on job titles and more on the ideas, skills and attitude that every member of our small, autonomous teams brings to the table.
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.
Experienced 3D Tech Artist [Unity]
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