Technical Artist Intern

Posted 8 Days Ago
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Barcelona, Cataluña
In-Office
Internship
Gaming
The Role
The Technical Artist Intern will assist in art asset integration for games, optimize art pipelines, develop tools, and communicate across teams.
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Level Up Your Career with Zynga!

At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition.

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Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level.

Join us and be part of the play!

Position Overview

To strengthen our current and future game developments, we are looking for a Technical Artist Intern with coding skills to help our teams integrate art assets.
You should have the technical skills to implement the tools and solutions our projects need, while also being able to communicate effectively with different project teams, artists, and programmers.
You will primarily work with the Monster Legends and Dragon City teams, helping improve art integration pipelines and reviewing asset integration. In addition, you will provide cross-team support to the Art Central team, assisting with various tasks.

What you’ll do

  • Mediate between different departments to ensure smooth and efficient asset integration.
  • Achieve and maintain efficient art pipelines that are consistent across our projects, addressing the needs of the games in development.
  • Participate in development of tools and solutions for our artists.
  • Teaching and documenting pipelines and best practices.

What we’re looking for

  • Expertise working with Unity engine and C# scripting.
  • Understanding of game assets pipelines.
  • Optimization techniques for mobile.
  • A resourceful problem-solver.
  • Communication skills.
  • Creativity, curiosity and passion!

Bonus skills:

  • Shader knowledge of CG, HLSL or Shader Graph.
  • VFX knowledge.
  • Spine2D knowledge is highly valued.
  • Adobe Animate or similar.
  • Previous experience and knowledge in 2D/3D mobile games development.

What’s in it for You as a Socialpointer

  • Hybrid working model – join our Barcelona office and enjoy amazing benefits:
    • Free breakfast and lunch at the office.
    • State-of-the-art gym facilities so you can level up your fitness game. 
    • Book an appointment with our onsite physiotherapist. 
    • Drop by our onsite hairdressers for a trim (and forget your wallet).
  • Hands-on learning from senior Product Managers.
  • Private medical insurance to keep your health bar full.
  • English and Spanish lessons to grow your skills.
  • Spotify Premium.
  • Legendary events and parties that make working here even more fun.

Intrigued? We’d love to hear from you. Please click “apply” to level up and submit your application in English.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.  Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at [email protected] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others.  Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel.  Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage.  Zynga’s  in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).  

Top Skills

Adobe Animate
C#
Cg
Hlsl
Shader Graph
Spine2D
Unity
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,449 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Zynga was founded in 2007 with the vision that play would become one of the core activities on the Internet. We pioneered social games with the belief that if we could make games simple, accessible and social the world would start playing. We are excited that games have grown to become the second most popular activity by time spent, even surpassing email. But we have a lot of hard work, innovation and growth ahead of us to create a future where social gaming is a daily habit for everyone.

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