BulletFarm – Technical Artist (Art/Performance)

Yelzkizi; United States; Remote; USD 97,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative game studio is searching for a passionate Technical Artist to join their collaborative team. In this exciting role, you'll focus on optimizing art and performance pipelines for a co-op FPS game using Unreal Engine 5.x. You'll be instrumental in establishing best practices and ensuring the highest visual quality across platforms. If you're eager to contribute to a vibrant company culture and have a love for gaming, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a real impact in the gaming industry while working from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a Tech Artist with experience in AAA titles.
• Proficient in scripting with Python and C#, with C++ as a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Own performance and workflows for a new Unreal Engine game pipeline.
• Develop and optimize art pipelines, ensuring quality and consistency.

Skills

Technical Art

Unreal Engine 5.x

Python

C#

AAA Game Development

Performance Optimization

Tools

Niagara

Chaos

Post Effects

Job description

bulletfarm.com

Job Description

BulletFarm is looking for a Technical Artist with a focus on Art/Performance to join a forming team as we set out to build a new co-op FPS. We are a small, highly collaborative team focused on making awesome games for people to play, and we’re looking for folks who are excited to work together and learn new things.

The Job

Tech Artist focusing on Art/Performance pipelines working on a co-op FPS game. You will:

1. Own the performance, consistency, and workflows of brand-new Unreal Engine 5.x game pipeline to hit the target frame rate of 60 FPS at all times, with no exceptions
2. Develop and optimize art pipelines and workflows, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements
3. Help establish best practices and technical standards for the art team - ensuring consistency and quality
4. Work closely with our Environment, Character, VFX, Lighting, Rendering, and other content teams to build new tools and pipelines
5. Work with Technical and Art Directors to get the highest visual quality out of the Unreal Engine for each platform
6. Establish tools, pipelines, and best practices to drive the content teams to ensure the game is built most efficiently while hitting our quality bar

Qualifications:

1. 3+ years as a Tech Artist and 5+ years working professionally
2. Significant experience with materials, scripting, procedural content, and tool creation
3. Have shipped at least 1 AAA title
4. Understanding of all components of modern AAA game engine content pipelines and render pipelines
5. Experience managing and upholding game-wide performance and memory budgets
6. Experience with setting content budgets, asset optimization, platform challenges and best practices/techniques
7. Proficient scripting/programming skills in Python and C# (C++ is a bonus!)

Preferred Experience:

1. Experience with Unreal 5 Lighting, Post Effects, Chaos, and Niagra
2. Art background or strong understanding of Environment, Weapon, Characters, FX, Processes

Please come work with us if any of this sounds exciting to you:

1. You like being on the ground floor of something new; feel excited about contributing to company culture
2. You play games. Lots of them. Especially ones you’ve helped make.
3. Good with wearing a few hats and getting your hands dirty
4. Want to work from (almost) any where in the world - including your own home

Salary Ranges: USD - $97,000 - $185,000

CAD - $80,000 - $165,000

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, so even if you think you are under-qualified, let us decide by showing us your portfolio.

Disclaimer: Position Leveling to be based on candidate experience and qualifications. Salary Range to be based on qualifications and local cost-of-labor.

How to Apply

Apply via:https://boards.greenhouse.io/bulletfarm/jobs/4360857007