Senior Technical Artist — Shaders & VFX Performance

Ubisoft Entertainment Inc.; Annecy; Sur place; EUR 65 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Ubisoft Entertainment Inc. is seeking an Expert Technical Artist - Shader to collaborate with the VFX team on shaders, materials, and rendering pipelines for multi‑platform titles. You will push visual quality while ensuring performance constraints are respected across PC and console targets.

The role requires strong shader development skills, experience with particle systems, and a proactive approach to tooling, debugging, and pipeline improvements in a fast‑paced game production environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as Technical Artist with VFX team.
• Experience with particle systems (GPU/CPU) constraints.
• Experience with performance and monitoring on a multi‑platform production.
• Shader development in any shader language or node‑base editor.

Responsabilités

• Support the VFX team in implementing visual effects and optimise without regressions; create tutorials.
• Produce and maintain shaders and complex VFX.
• Monitor and optimise performance: PC/Consoles profiling and optimisation.
• Act as gatekeeper of VFX constraints, collaborating with Art Leads, TDs and QA for visual quality and performance.
• Explore production workflows and evaluate new technologies to improve the engine.
• Conduct tests and experimentation to propose new solutions and improvements.

Connaissances

Shader development

Particle systems

Performance & monitoring

Game editors & engines

Console development

Collaboration & communication

HLSL

Shading/Rendering

Description du poste

Ubisoft Entertainment Inc. is seeking an Expert Technical Artist - Shader to collaborate with the VFX team on shaders, materials, and rendering pipelines for multi‑platform titles. You will push visual quality while ensuring performance constraints are respected across PC and console targets.

The role requires strong shader development skills, experience with particle systems, and a proactive approach to tooling, debugging, and pipeline improvements in a fast‑paced game production environment.