N-iX Games is looking for a highly talented and experienced Technical Artist to play a key role in our new ambitious PC/console strategy game. The specialist we looking for will guide the content production pipelines and help maintain performance as well as be responsible for some of the visual features.
Responsibilities:
- Creating high-quality water and weather effects, assisting other team members in the creation of related systems
- Creating and optimizing shaders, materials, decals, and foliage
- Creating and improving Niagara-based visual effects
- Working with lightning optimization
- Identify pipeline, workflow & build problems, solve them, or work with teams to mitigate the impact on the final product
- Advising art on how to further optimize assets and other content to fit within the technical limitations
- Collaborating with Art, Engineering, and Design teams to create a high-quality game experience
- Help define new art workflows and identify industry trends/best practices
- Be the point of contact between team members to drive cross-department collaboration
Requirements:
- At least 3 years of experience as a Technical Artist or related art role
- A strong portfolio of work that demonstrates the ability to create high-quality works suitable for games
- Solid knowledge of Unreal Engine is essential including knowledge of blueprints, Niagara, and performance profiling tools
- Working experience with water and weather effects in Unreal Engine
- In-depth knowledge of modern lighting models, and how they affect shader/material creation
- Good knowledge of node-based shader editors and/or HLSL experience
- Verbal English - upper-intermediate and higher
Good to have:
- Experience with city-building, RTS, or tactical games as a developer
- Good understanding of 3D maths
- Good knowledge of Houdini & procedural content creation
- Problem-solving mindset
- Being able to work independently and as part of a team
- Be an avid gamer
We offer:
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other location-specific benefits
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N-iX is a global software solutions and engineering services company that helps world’s leading organizations turn challenges into lasting business value, operational efficiency, and revenue growth using advanced technology. Whether you need to build a custom solution, modernize your digital product or acquire extra tech expertise - we have the experience and capabilities to ensure your success.
With over 2,000 professionals in 25 countries across Europe and the Americas, N-iX offers expert solutions in cloud, data analytics, embedded software, IoT, AI, machine learning, and other tech domains. Being in business for over two decades, we have worked with dozens of industry-leading enterprises and Fortune 500 companies creating value across a wide variety of sectors, including finance, manufacturing, supply chain, retail, e-commerce, healthcare, and more. Our unique combination of business domain expertise and technical know-how enables us to effectively collaborate with ISVs, tech companies, and enterprises of all sizes. Thanks to the strong tech ecosystem and partnerships with AWS, GCP, Microsoft, SAP, OpenText, Snowflake, and others, we bring extra speed, scale and efficiency to more than 160 organizations across the globe. N-iX is recognized by numerous industry awards, such as CRN Solution Provider 500, Global Outsourcing 100 by IAOP, ISG Provider Lens™, Modern Application Development services providers by Forrester, etc
