Senior Technical Artist

8Bit - Games Industry Recruitment; Leipzig; Remote; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A specialized recruitment firm is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to design and develop 3D graphics for a factory-themed game. This fully remote position emphasizes strong rendering skills and offers flexibility in work hours, alongside benefits such as personal growth allowances and yearly salary reviews. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of game development experience and a collaborative mindset in an indie studio environment.

Leistungen

Flexible scheduling

Healthy work-life balance

Monthly personal growth allowance

Yearly salary review

Budget for home workspace setup

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience working as a Technical Artist in game development.
• Strong background in rendering, graphics programming, and performance optimization.
• Ownership mentality around graphics systems and art pipelines.

Aufgaben

• Collaborate with the team to translate the visual vision into a performant Unity experience.
• Own and evolve the rendering pipeline.
• Build and optimize shaders, lighting, VFX, and materials.

Kenntnisse

Rendering and graphics programming

Performance optimization

Shader development

Tools

Unity

Jobbeschreibung

Our Client is hiring a Senior Technical Artist to develop its upcoming 3D top-down factory game.

The ideal candidate will take ownership of rendering, shaders, and visual tooling, ensuring both performance and artistic fidelity while collaborating closely with a small, passionate team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with artists, programmers, and the Game Director to translate the visual vision into a performant and scalable Unity experience.
• Own and evolve the rendering pipeline.
• Build and optimize shaders, lighting, VFX, and materials.
• Maintain visual consistency and performance throughout development.
• Develop art workflows, tooling, and pipelines to streamline production.
• Profile and resolve rendering bottlenecks.
• Explore and implement advanced Unity rendering features (URP / HDRP, VFX Graph, etc.).

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of experience working as a Technical Artist in gamedev (PC / console games)
• Strong background in rendering, graphics programming, and performance optimization.
• Ownership mentality around graphics systems and art pipelines.
• Flexible availability across time zones from Brazil (BRT) up to Central Europe (CEST)

WHAT THEY OFFER

• Fully remote, full-time position with flexible scheduling
• Healthy work-life balance culture and paid overtime when it happens
• Monthly personal growth allowance for courses, books, or other learning materials
• Focus days dedicated to researching or learning new skills
• Team gatherings are organised once a year to meet and collaborate in person
• Budget to set up or upgrade your home workspace, including hardware of your choice
• Yearly salary review to ensure your pay keeps pace with market standards, and an automatic increase of 2% per year.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

A small indie studio focused on creating thoughtful, deeply satisfying factory and automation games that players truly love.The team started with web games, found success on PC, and has since grown into a distributed team delivering highly rated simulation experiences.

The studio values :

• Direct communication and ownership over unnecessary bureaucracy
• Player-first design shaped by close collaboration with the community
• Long-term partnerships with people who want to grow alongside their projects

Team size : ~12 people, slowly growing

Work mode : Fully remote

Engine : Unity

Platform : PC