Senior Technical Artist – Generalist
Activision
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Malmö • Sweden
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Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Being a bridge between engineers, content creators and production.
- To help develop, test, and teach new tools and technologies.
- Supporting and improving workflows for our art team, in one or more areas of content creation, for example modelling, look dev (shaders, materials, texturing), rigging, animation, visual effects, lighting, and UI.
- Maintain and improve multiple aspects of technical asset production: re-use, content density, performance, storage/memory requirements, etc.
- Anticipating challenges and risks and implementing innovative and preventative solutions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in the games industry working in technical art or closely related areas.
- Experience developing tools and pipelines for game content production.
- Experience with DCC tools (Maya, Blender, etc.)
- Some understanding of scripting languages like Python, MEL, VEX, etc.
- In-depth knowledge of memory and performance impact from a content creation perspective.
- Experience writing and/or debugging shaders.
- Understanding of Physically Based Rendering systems and techniques.
- In-depth understanding of game engines, pipelines, and processes.
- Creativity in problem solving and a positive, respectful team-first attitude.
- Organization methods and the capability to meet agreed timelines.
Benefits
- Professional development
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
technical arttool developmentgame content productionscripting languagesshadersPhysically Based Renderinggame enginescontent creationdebuggingperformance optimization
Soft Skills
problem solvingteam collaborationorganizationcreativitycommunicationrisk managementinnovationtime managementadaptabilitypositive attitude