Technical Art

Lead Technical Artist

Lead technical challenges and the production environment, from shaders and DCC plugins to artist workflows.

  • Open
  • Job code: AP-TA-01
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Role

You will own technical art across the project: technical challenges, tooling and the production environment.

Responsibilities

  • Create shaders in Unreal Engine
  • Research and develop rendering techniques that raise quality
  • Build plugins for DCC tools
  • Build and improve workflows that make artists more efficient

What makes it interesting

  • Work on a title played around the world.
  • Bring your experience to a close-knit team and immerse yourself in making things.
  • Specialists work alongside you, so it is an ideal place to keep learning.

Required experience

  • 3+ years of professional experience in programming, art, animation or tool development for games or film
  • Broad knowledge of shaders and DCC tools

Preferred experience

  • Deep familiarity with Unreal Engine
  • Shader authoring experience and knowledge
  • Knowledge of lighting for high-end game visuals
  • Experience building artist workflows
  • Experience investigating performance and memory
  • Experience investigating data issues and problems
  • Mastery of advanced 3D graphics software

Who we are looking for

  • Loves games
  • Wants to make games more fun
  • Absorbs new technology eagerly and discusses how to apply it
  • Balances schedule and quality
  • Aspires to lead a team in the near future, even without lead experience today

Tools and languages

  • Unreal Engine 4 / Unreal Engine 5

Terms of employment

  • Unreal Engine 4 / 5
  • HLSL
  • Houdini
  • Maya
Project
Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement
Employment
Full-time or contract (contract hires are made with conversion to full-time in mind). 3-month probation.
Location
Kanda Center Building 5F, 2-3-2 Kajicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (about 3 min from JR Kanda Station)
Hours
10:00–19:00 (8 working hours, flextime available)
Holidays
Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, year-end and New Year, paid annual leave, summer leave, celebration and condolence leave
Benefits
Commuting allowance, full social insurance, annual health check, celebration and condolence allowances, free drinks, skill-development support, gym subsidy, company trips
Salary
Determined by experience and ability under company rules, regardless of age, and reviewed after joining. Monthly salary includes 40 hours of fixed overtime.
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