Senior Houdini Tech Artist: Procedural Game Art

Jobgether; Schweiz; À distance; CHF 120 000 - 170 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote-friendly environment

Competitive compensation

Professional growth

Flexible contract options

Annual team retreats

Résumé du poste

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Technical Artist (Houdini | Procedural Game Art) based remotely in Switzerland. You will design and develop scalable Houdini tools, generators, and workflows to empower artists to create high-quality assets efficiently across environments, geometry processing, and real-time pipelines.

Collaborating with Environment and Character Artists and Engineers, you will build reusable HDAs, automations, and production-ready workflows, ensure asset validation and optimization,

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional experience in technical art, procedural game art, or related discipline.
• Advanced Houdini skills demonstrated by a production-ready toolkit and portfolio.
• Strong knowledge of procedural modeling, geometry processing, attributes, and node-based workflows.
• Proficiency in VEX and Python scripting for Houdini.
• Experience developing reusable HDAs and artist-facing procedural tools.
• Solid understanding of real-time game asset production, including geometry budgets, UVs, materials, and optimization.
• Experience integrating procedural assets into Unity3D, Unreal Engine, or comparable engines.
• Strong artistic understanding of shape, composition, visual consistency, and production requirements.
• Ability to design scalable, maintainable procedural systems and solve complex challenges independently.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsabilités

• Own procedural art systems and workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability, and alignment with production requirements.
• Design and develop procedural tools, generators, and systems in Houdini for environment art and asset creation.
• Create reusable Houdini Digital Assets (HDAs) with intuitive controls for artists.
• Build scalable workflows to support variation and high-quality results; explore new techniques.
• Integrate Houdini-generated content into real-time pipelines (Unity/Unreal).
• Develop export, validation, and optimization processes for assets.
• Create artist-friendly tools with clear parameters and predictable outputs; automate tasks.
• Prototype and production-readiness: refine approaches into stable tools.
• Troubleshoot procedural system issues and bottlenecks; drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Environment Artists, Character Artists, Technical Artists, and Engineers.
• Provide technical guidance and ownership for procedural tools and systems.
• Document templates and best practices to ensure consistency.

Connaissances

5+ years experience

Houdini mastery

VEX scripting

Python scripting

HDAs

Real-time engines

English fluency

Unity3D

Unreal Engine

Outils

Houdini

Unity3D

Unreal Engine

Description du poste

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Technical Artist (Houdini | Procedural Game Art) based remotely in Switzerland. You will design and develop scalable Houdini tools, generators, and workflows to empower artists to create high-quality assets efficiently across environments, geometry processing, and real-time pipelines.

Collaborating with Environment and Character Artists and Engineers, you will build reusable HDAs, automations, and production-ready workflows, ensure asset validation and optimization,