Senior Mobile Technical Artist — Unity Shader & VFX

HellaGoodAudio; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation time

Sick days

Health coverage

RRSP matching

Commuter allowance

On-site gym

Casual dress code

Team lunches

Employee discounts

Job summary

IGG Canada is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to bridge art and technology in our mobile game development team. You will create stylized shaders, optimize assets for Unity, and improve art workflows for a smooth production pipeline.

The ideal candidate combines strong artistic sensibility with hands-on technical expertise, understanding mobile performance constraints and delivering creative technical solutions. Start ASAP in Vancouver, on-site.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in Technical Art or a related role within the mobile game industry.
• Strong knowledge of Unity and real-time 3D production workflows.
• Good understanding of the 3D art production pipeline, including modeling, texturing, animation, and asset integration.
• Experience optimizing game assets, shaders, and visual effects for performance while maintaining visual quality.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with artists and designers to develop and implement stylized visuals for characters, environments, and visual effects in Unity.
• Prepare, integrate, and optimize 2D and 3D assets for real-time mobile game development.
• Set up, refine, and maintain materials, textures, lighting, visual effects, and reusable prefabs.
• Polish and troubleshoot art assets in Unity, ensuring visual consistency and technical quality throughout production.
• Design, create, and maintain stylized shaders and materials using Amplify Shader Editor or Unity Shader Graph.
• Develop custom shader effects to achieve specific artistic styles while balancing mobile performance budgets.
• Collaborate to refine visual appearance of characters and FX and review rendering performance for draw calls, transparency, and texture memory usage.
• Provide technical guidance to artists and improve art workflows and pipelines.

Skills

Unity knowledge

Shaders

Asset optimization

Mobile game experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

AI tools in art production

Tools

Amplify Shader Editor

Unity Shader Graph

Maya

3ds Max

Substance Designer

Substance Painter

Job description

IGG Canada is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to bridge art and technology in our mobile game development team. You will create stylized shaders, optimize assets for Unity, and improve art workflows for a smooth production pipeline.

The ideal candidate combines strong artistic sensibility with hands-on technical expertise, understanding mobile performance constraints and delivering creative technical solutions. Start ASAP in Vancouver, on-site.