
Environment Artist – Course Team
GOLF+
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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About the role
- Create high-quality, large-scale outdoor environments
- Sculpt terrain, define construction and layout, and establish the visual identity of each course
- Author and place foliage (grass, trees, plants) to build dense, believable ecosystems
- Collaborate with technical artists to help shape and refine best-in-class course creation tools and workflows
- Translate both real-world reference and original ideas into compelling playable spaces
- Design and build original golf course environments from concept through final polish
- Contribute to course layout, flow, and overall player experience
- Create and optimize high-end 3D assets using Maya, Substance, and SpeedTree
- Assemble, light, and polish environments in Unity
- Ensure assets meet performance and memory budgets across platforms
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as an Environment Artist or similar role in games
- Expertise in 3D modeling, texturing, and world building
- Strong foundational art skills, eye for scene layout, and visual structure
- Demonstrated experience building realistic outdoor environments and props
- Strong eye for natural detail, scale, and material definition
- Experience creating foliage and working with vegetation systems
- Collaborative team member who embraces feedback and iterates effectively
- Experience building assets optimized for both mobile and high-end PC
- Proficiency in Maya, Blender, or similar DCC tools
- Substance Painter/Designer
- Experience working in real-time engines (Unity experience is a strong plus)
- Unity Terrain and procedural terrain generators (Gaea, World Machine, True Terrain)
- SpeedTree
Benefits
- healthcare benefits
- a 401(k) plan with employer match
- short-term and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- well-being benefits
- unlimited paid time off
- paid parental leave
- several paid holidays
- a golf stipend
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
3D modelingtexturingworld buildingfoliage creationasset optimizationscene layoutvisual structurenatural detailmaterial definitionrealistic environment design
Soft Skills
collaborationfeedback acceptanceiteration